• Launching Word 97
• Closing the Office Assistant
• Exploring the Title bar and the Menu bar
• Introducing Toolbars
• Exploring the Document window
• Examining the Status bar
• Exploring a Word 97 menu
• Exploring Dialogue box features
• Entering and correcting text
• Exploring AutoCorrect features
• Moving the insertion point
• Deleting text
• Using Insert and Overtype modes
• Using the mouse to edit text
• Saving a document
• Exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Getting help using the Office Assistant

Editing a Document

• Retrieving a file
• Navigating using the keyboard
• Navigating using the mouse
• Selecting text using the keyboard
• Selecting text using the mouse
• Copying and pasting text
• Moving text using a shortcut
• Using Undo and Redo
• Using Drag and Drop to move and copy text
• Formatting text using the formatting toolbar
• Adding a manual Page Break
• Working with hyphenation
• Exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Setting AutoCorrect exceptions

• Opening a document
• Using the Go To command
• Changing text attributes
• Changing text alignment
• Adding bullets and numbering
• Inserting tabs
• Changing tab alignments
• Adjusting line spacing
• Exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Working with text effects

Time - Saving Techniques

• Opening an existing file
• Searching and replacing text
• Copying text between documents
• Using and creating AutoText
• Exploring documents in Print Preview
• Printing the letter
• Creating and printing an envelope
• Saving the file and exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Printing a label

Checking Spelling and Grammar

• Opening a file
• Exploring spell check and grammar options
• Correcting flagged spelling errors
• Correcting flagged grammatical errors
• Running a manual spell check
• Using the Thesaurus
• Additional Exercises: Working with custom dictionaries

• Understanding styles
• Applying an existing style to text
• Modifying an existing style
• Exploring Word's long style list
• Interactive exercise #1: Applying styles to text
• Creating a style from scratch
• Saving changes and exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Creating paragraph styles

Templates

• Understanding templates
• Creating a document based on a template
• Interactive exercise #2: Entering text on a template
• Displaying the style area
• Applying styles from a different template
• Hiding the style area
• Creating a template
• Interactive exercise #3: Replacing text with placeholders
• Saving a document as a template
• Exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Preparing a document for faxing using a wizard

• Creating a document based on a template
• Zooming in and out of a document
• Inserting files into a document
• Interactive exercise #4: Inserting files
• Switching to outline view
• Exploring the outlining toolbar
• Organizing text in the outline view
• Interactive exercise #5: Organizing text
• Moving text in outline view
• Using the Document Map feature
• Creating a header and footer
• Switching to page layout view
• Hiding headers and footers
• Modifying headers and footers
• Adding a page break
• Saving changes and exiting Word
• Additional Exercises: Browsing through a document

Advanced Formatting

• Inserting section breaks
• Formatting text as columns
• Inserting column breaks
• Changing margins and column spacing in a section
• Interactive exercise #6: Adding and formatting another section
• Setting a tab with a dot leader
• Interactive exercise #7: Entering text in the last section of the newsletter
• Creating a rectangle with a drop shadow
• Saving the file and exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Creating a subfolder and linking files

• Launching Word 97
• Creating a table from existing text
• Editing in a table
• Resizing a column
• Inserting a row into a table
• Deleting a column in a table
• Adding a column to a table
• Entering text into a column
• Moving a column
• Adding a row at the bottom of a table
• Interactive exercise #1: Entering data in a new row
• Automatically formatting a table
• Creating a table from scratch
• Interactive exercise #2: Entering data in a new table
• Formatting cells in a table
• Interactive exercise #3: Removing borders
• Aligning text and shading cells
• Saving changes and exiting Word
• Additional Exercises: Sorting a table

Hyperlinks

• Launching Word 97
• Creating a bookmark
• Using a bookmark
• Viewing a bookmark
• Interactive exercise #4: Creating bookmarks for other products
• Deleting a bookmark
• Creating a hyperlink using a bookmark
• Creating a hyperlink without bookmarks
• Interactive exercise #5: Creating a hyperlink
• Creating a hyperlink between documents
• Formatting to create hyperlinks
• Inserting the date and time in a footer
• Adding alternate headers
• Interactive exercise #6: Specifying the header and footer for the odd page
• Viewing the different headers
• Saving and exiting Word
• Additional Exercises: Creating and generating an index

• Launching Word 97
• Using a Wizard to create web pages
• Formatting a web page
• Interactive exercise #7: Replacing the remaining bullets
• Saving a web page
• Saving a Word 97 document as a web page
• Creating hyperlinks to other web pages
• Interactive exercise #8: Creating two more hyperlinks
• Browsing through the web pages
• Viewing an HTML file
• Exiting Word 97
• Additional Exercises: Creating a mail merge

Enhancing a Web Page

• Launching Word 97
• Inserting an object
• Drawing an object
• Adding 3-D effects
• Modifying 3-D effects
• Saving an object
• Formatting text in the web page
• Interactive exercise #9: Formatting text in a web page
• Changing the web page background
• Saving changes and exiting Word
• Additional Exercises: Creating a macro