It is best to contact me via the course discussion board or e-mail. I will respond to student’s email promptly. This means (Monday through Friday) you will get a response within 24 hours of writing your message. On the weekends I don’t promise to answer email, but you will find that I usually check my email twice a day and will respond back promptly.

Before enrolling in this course, the student should be familiar with basic touch-typing fundamentals and have some experience working in a windows environment with a mouse. You will need access to a computer with Office 2007 and an Internet Browser.

You need to be familiar with basic and intermediate features of Word. You should have completed an intermediate Word course or have passed the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification exam at the Core level.

Required on campus sessions:   1

Special labs or practicum:  0

Number of assignments:  Seven assignments which consist of 3-4 problems.

Estimated time per week:  2-3 hours

Group interaction required:  None

Scheduled activities or self paced:  self paced

Requirements: 

Students must have access to the following:

• Equipment:  You will need a computer that is able to access and interact with the Web. For best results, a Pentium or PowerMac with a 56 Kbps or faster modem and 256 MB or more of RAM should be considered the minimal system.
• Software:  You will need one of the following Internet browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher; Firefox; Mac users may use Safari or Firefox.
• Internet connection: Home users need Internet access through an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that offers a reliable connection to the Internet.

This course is designed to introduce you to the advanced features of Word 2003.  You will learn how to create an online form; work with macros and Visual Basic for Applications; work with creating a master document, an index, and a table of contents; and learn an integration feature which teaches you how to link an Excel worksheet and chart its data in Word.  You will also review beginning and intermediate features of Word.

You will learn the advantages of becoming a Microsoft Office Specialist.  At the conclusion of this course, you will have covered all of the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist Certification core and expert examinations.

·         Design an online form

·         Create a document template

·         Highlight text

·         Insert a table into a form

·         Insert a text form field, a drop-down form field, a check box, or add Help text to a form

·         Format form fields

·         Use the Format Painter button

·         Insert and format a rectangle drawing object

·         Animate text

·         Protect a form

·         Fill out a form

·         Save data on a form in a text file

·         Modify the location of workgroup templates

·          Unprotect a document

·         Set a security level in Word

·         Create a new style with a shortcut key

·         Fill a drawing object with a gradient effect

·         Add a 3-D effect to a drawing object

·         Record and execute a macro

·         Assign a macro to a toolbar button

·         Record an automatic macro

·         View a macro's VBA code; Add and modify comments to a macro's VBA

·         Insert and plan a VBA procedure

·         Run a macro when a user exits a form field

·         Insert an ActiveX control

·         Format and set properties for an ActiveX control

·         Write a VBA procedure for an ActiveX control

·         Attach a digital signature

·         Insert, modify, review, and delete comments

·         Track changes in a document

·         Save multiple versions of a document

·         Accept and reject tracked changes

·         Add and modify a caption

·         Create a cross-reference

·         Mark index entries

·         Password-protect a document

·         Work with a master document and subdocuments

·         Create and modify an outline

·         Insert and format a diagram

·         Create a table of figures

·         Build and modify an index

·         Create and modify a table of contents

·         Add a bookmark

·         Create alternating headers

·         Set a gutter margin

·         Use a Document Map

·         Link an Excel Worksheet to a Word Document

·         Create a chart in Word from Excel data

Edit linked Excel worksheets