Handling Long Documents in Word™ – Training Course Outline

If you’ve ever struggled to create a long document in Word™, this course is for you. Learn how to use features in Word like templates and styles to make your document look professional. Find out how easy it is to generate and update contents and indexes automatically. Learn how to stop your inserted graphics from moving around the document when you move text or re-paginate.

What you will learn on this course

By the end of the course, you will know how to:

• Use Word to smooth the writing and editing process
• Apply templates and styles to achieve clarity and a consistent look and feel
• Create navigation aids for your reader like a table of contents and index
• Add headers and footers, bookmarks and hyperlinks, footnotes and endnotes
• Insert screen captures or graphics and ‘anchor’ them to text they illustrate
• Easily make changes and reviewer comments to your documents

Course Duration

We provide both a one-day intensive course and a more interactive two-day workshop.

One-day intensive

This course concentrates on showing you, step-by-step, the process of creating professional documents in Word. Exercises are used to illustrate various points throughout the day.

Two-day workshop

Over the two-day workshop, delegates practise the skills you need to create professional documents in Word, learning the techniques through group discussion, exercises and working on real examples of documents that you bring to the workshop.

Both courses are aimed at people who wish to improve their knowledge of Word, especially for creating long documents. If you’re unsure which course is best for you, give us a call on 01635 202013 for more details or email us

If you are booking a private course or tutorial and also want to learn more about the advanced features of Word, you can ‘mix and match’ with modules from our ‘Getting More Out of Word™’ course. Please talk to one of our training consultants for further details.

Course Contents

1. Planning your document

• Objectives
• Number and type of documents
• Document sections
• Layout, design, font and colour

2. How to create and apply Styles and Templates

• Paragraph and Character styles
• Creating a Style
• Applying and editing styles
• Creating Templates
• Managing styles and templates

3. Navigating around your document

• Keystrokes
• Document Map / Outline View
• Table of contents
• Indexing
• Browse objects

4. Document components

• Use of Tables
• Bookmarks and Hyperlinks
• Graphics and screen prints
• Screen capture
• Anchoring graphics
• Headers and footers
• Footnotes and endnotes

5. Handling large documents

• Problems with master and subdocuments
• How to keep documents small (eg linked graphics)
• Linking documents together using RD fields

6. Miscellaneous

• Fast editing tips
• Automation of complex terminology using Auto Correct and Auto text
• Using Track Changes for proofing and collaboration
• Exporting to PowerPoint and importing from other Office products

Book Now!

For details of timetabled courses, see the schedule. For prices, see the costs table.

To reserve your places you can either book on-line or call us on +44 (0)1635 202013/+44 (0)207 0960 749.