Standard 2003	Learn essential word processing skills for business with our standard level Microsoft Word course.
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Virtual Instructor-led Training

You can tackle individual topics in a Virtual Instructor-led training session. These are interactive sessions, offered on a one-to-one basis. To see what this involves, click here or to make an enquiry by email, click on the topic title. Topics offered include:

Mail Merge	Set up a mailing list and merge it with a pre-prepared document eg a letter or labels.
Formatting and tables	Learn about the formatting options available, create tables and apply formatting to columns, rows and cells .
Working with heading styles	Implement styles and make use of them to structure your document. Number paragraphs, insert cross references and hyperlinks. When you create a document using heading styles you will be able to generate a table of contents.
Track changes	Use to review documents within a team and track changes made by different parties. Understand how to ensure all mark-ups are removed.

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Case Study

When you have compiled a theme and want to adopt it as a company standard you will need to make it available to your team. The Office applications which use themes make it possible to browse for a theme, but if you want to use it as your standard, you will want it to appear automatically. Here we describe the process for making your theme the default in Word.

Having selected your colours, fonts and effects you can save your theme, using Page Layout, Themes, Save Current Theme. Store the theme in a shared location which can be seen by the other computers in your team. You will need to visit each computer and do the following:

In Word, open the Normal.dotm template. In Windows XP this is stored under the user profile in Application Data\Microsoft\Templates. In Windows Vista and Windows 7 the template is stored under the user profile in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. These folders may be hidden, so call if you need help to find them.

The template should display a blank page. Go to Page Layout, Themes and use Browse for Themes to locate your saved theme. When you have located your theme and clicked Open, you need to save your template and close it. Now any new documents you create should default to using your selected colours, fonts and effects.

If you just want your theme to be an option available to users, on each computer navigate to the Template folder described above then place a copy of your theme file in the Document Themes sub-folder. Your theme will appear on the Themes menu.

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