Strands & Standards WORD PROCESSING COURSE DESCRIPTION This course reviews and builds upon skills acquired in Basics. As students create a variety of documents, increased efficiency, productivity, quality, and creativity will be evident through their use of basic and advanced software features. Instruction on proper keyboarding technique and recommended styles for business documents will coincide with their software training. License Secondary Related Endorsements Business and Marketing Information Technology Intended Grade Level: 9 12 Units of Credit: 0.5 Core Code: 32.02.00.00.370 CE Core Code: 32.02.00.13.370 Prerequisite: Basics or 25 GWAM Skill Certification: 262 Test Weight: 0.5 Revised March 2017 Page 1 of 6
Strands & Standards STRAND 1 Students will be able to create, navigate, format, customize options, and prepare documents to print or save. Create and navigate through a document. Create a new blank document Create a document using templates Using non-native files in Word (.pdf,.txt,.rtf) Search for text within a document (Using Go To, Find, Find and Replace) Insert hyperlinks (email, place in the document, new document, email address) Create bookmarks Standard 3: Standard 4: Format a document. Modify page setup such as margins and page orientation Change document themes Change document style sets Insert basic headers and footers Insert watermarks Insert page numbers Customize options and views for documents. Change document views Use zoom tools Customize the quick access toolbar Customize the ribbon Split the document window Add values to document properties Use Show/Hide Paragraph marks Prepare documents to be printed, saved or distributed. Change print settings (scaling, pages per sheet, print specific sections) Save documents in alternate file formats Save a file to the non-default location Protect a document with a password Performance Objective: Use word processing software to create, format, and edit documents. Identify standard default settings for margins, line spacing, alignment, and tabs. Adjust settings for alignment, line spacing, and indentation to format paragraphs. Use text wrapping (word-wrap) within paragraphs. Use writing tools for spelling, thesaurus, and grammar. Use cut, copy, move, and paste within a document. Apply changes to fonts including face, style, size, and effects. Apply bullets and numbering to lists. Apply numbers, headers/footers, and vertical centering to pages. Use word processing software to apply advanced word processing functions. Change paper size and orientation. Find and replace text and formatting in a document. Insert symbols and characters. Apply hyphenation, non-breaking hyphens and non-breaking spaces. Sort a list. Revised March 2017 Page 2 of 6
Plan, record, and play a macro. STRAND 2 Students will be able to insert and format text and paragraphs. Standard 3: Insert and modify text and paragraphs. Add text to documents Use find and replace Copy and paste text Insert text using AutoCorrect Remove blank paragraphs Insert built-in fields Insert special characters Identify Format text and paragraphs using formatting tools Change font attributes (bold, underline, font color, underline, change case) Use Find and Replace with formatting Use Format painter Set paragraph spacing Set line spacing (spacing before and after, single, double, etc.) Clear formatting Set indentation Highlight text Add styles to text Format text as WordArt Modify styles Group text and paragraphs using breaks and columns. Use Widow/Orphan control Insert section and page breaks Organize text into columns Forcing page breaks Apply headings Performance Objective: Use advanced features of word processing software to format documents. Create labels. Format text in columns. Create a table of contents and index. Create documents using templates such as calendars, fax cover sheets, and other business documents. Add page and paragraph borders and fill in a document. STRAND 3 Students will create and modify tables and lists. Create and format a table. Convert text to table Set table dimensions Set AutoFit options Use QuickTables Use header rows within a table Modify a table using styles. Revised March 2017 Page 3 of 6
Standard 3: Sort table information Change cell margins Use formulas within a cell Modify fonts within a table Merge cells Create and modify lists. Add numbering or bullets to a list Create and use custom bullets (symbol, picture) Change list levels (increase and decrease) Change numbering style and levels Performance Objective: Use word processing software to create and format tables and perform calculations. Insert and delete columns and rows. Change line border, and fill styles. Change cell, row, column, and table formatting. Perform a variety of sorts within tables. STRAND 4 Students will be able to insert and apply endnotes, footnotes, citations and captions. Students will be able to insert and apply endnotes, footnotes, citations and captions. Insert endnotes Change endnote location Change endnote format Insert footnotes Change footnote location Change footnote format Change footnote numbering Insert citations Insert citation placeholders Insert a built-in Works Cited or Bibliography Add and modify captions. Add captions to tables, pictures and diagrams Change position of caption Change caption formats Change caption labels Exclude caption labels STRAND 5 Students will be able to insert and customize Quick Parts, textboxes, shapes, SmartArt and images. Insert and format building blocks. Insert Quick Parts Insert and draw text boxes Use building blocks organizer Customize building block parts (built in headers, footers, page numbering, etc.) Insert and format shapes and SmartArt. Insert and draw dimple shapes Revised March 2017 Page 4 of 6
Modify shape dimensions Insert SmartArt Modify SmartArt color, size and shapes Change text wrapping for shapes Use align and position for shapes and SmartArt Standard 3: Insert and format images. Insert images (from computer and online images) Use artistic effects Apply picture effects and styles Change color settings Wrap text around images Use align and position for images Performance Objectives: Use word processing software to manipulate graphics. Insert a graphic image into a document. Change the image size, position, wrap, border/fill, and add a caption. Use drawing tools to insert lines, shapes, and WordArt/TextArt. The following standards are optional and will help prepare a student to take the Microsoft Office Specialist Expert Word Exams. STRAND 6 Students will be able to prepare documents for review, manage multiple documents and review tools. Prepare documents for review. Set tracking options Restrict editing Remove hidden data and personal information from a document Mark a document as final Protect a document with a password Manage multiple documents. Modify existing templates Merge documents Copy styles from one template to another Use the style organizer Copy macros from one document to another Create a link to external data Move building blocks between documents Standard 3: Manage document changes. Track changes Accept or reject changes Add and delete comments Change markup options Resolve document style conflicts between documents Show all changes Performance Objectives: Use word processing software to perform merges. Create a data source to be used in a merge. Create a form/main document to be used in a merge. Perform a merge. Use appropriate merge commands to allow for user input from keyboard during a merge. Sort and select data records to be used in a merge. STRAND 7 Revised March 2017 Page 5 of 6
Students will be able to apply advanced formatting, styles, and ordering and groupings using master documents, subdocuments, linking document elements. Skill Certificate Test Points by Strand Test Number of Test Points by Strand Total Total Test Name # 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Points Questions 262 12 14 10 6 6 48 39 Revised March 2017 Page 6 of 6