Topics for the Word Exam (October 7th - NOTICE the change in date!)

The exam will have two parts:

a. you will be asked to use the programs to generate a document (please make sure you have a web based email program that you can use to submit your results at the end of the exam, like you did for the homework). This is the “practical” part.
b. you will also have to respond questions on paper about word. This is the conceptual part.

You are allowed to use your notes or the programs to answer your questions (and create the document, of course). Still, you should NOT rely on having this help available. The exam will have a very strict time policy. If you do not study in advance you will spend all your time going through your notes and using Words help or trying things with the documents.

What I am basically saying is: I will test how much you know about Word by setting a time constraint. We can all find out how to do something in Word if we can spend half an hour going through the help and the menus.

Here is the list of topics:

1. Create a new file, open, save. Page setup. Printing.
2. Basic edition: cut, copy, paste, paste special (unformatted text).
3. Find (including advanced find: match case, etc). Wildcards (only * and ?). Replace.
4. Layouts: normal, web, view, outline. Toolbars (showing and hiding them, how to add buttons to a toolbar).
5. Header and footer. Inserting page number, page count, today date, etc.
6. Breaks: page breaks, section breaks, column breaks.
7. Autotext. What it is, how to use it.
8. Drawing arrows, squares, lines.
9. Formatting text: fonts, paragraph formatting.
10. Bullets, numbering. Different levels of bullets.
11. Columns, tabs (different types of tabs, how they are used). Indentation.
12. Spellchecking, tracking changes.
13. Mail merge: creating a data source, inserting fields from the data source, creating letters and envelopes.
14. Macros: how to record and run a macro.
15. Tables: creating a table, formatting tables, splitting cells, text orientation in cells, borders, colors.
16. Microsoft equation editor. Creating and editting an equation.