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Professional Reports writing using Microsoft Word

Today, Microsoft Word is used by many people to prepare letters, memos and documents. Many secretaries and people can do these very well. However, when they start writing a lengthy report or proposal, they will discover their skills are not sufficient to manage this kind of project and the concepts are also different between writing a short letter and a report. Also, they will face to the following problems :

don’t know the efficiency ways to control the format throughout the whole project, or
don’t know how to generate, update and format table of contents or
don’t know how to collaborate the work from the other team members
cannot perform the layout or format they want

This course is designed to address the above issues and will teach users concepts needed to write a professional look report from the planning stage to production stage.

Enrolment Schedules

What you’ll learn

Objectives

After finishing the course, candidates should be able to
know the features which are well suit for a large scale document project
pickup the most efficiency ways to start the project
keep the document’s format consistent
format and design various layouts suitable for reports
manage and use templates to standardise their projects

Who should attend

Secretaries, analysts or researchers want to write reports
Sales and marketing people preparing proposals, newsletters
HR department people want to write company procedures
People who want to improve and enhance their existing skills on using Word

Course outlines

Outline Editor

Formatting

Table
insert tables
editing inside a table
column and row insertion / deletion
changing columns and rows spacing
converting existing text into table
converting table back to text
Math Calculation
adding figures in columns or rows
inserting calculation result into your document

Styles

defining paragraph and character styles
editing styles
synchronising styles amongst documents

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PRW5013 - 廣東話

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RELATING COURSES


		Word I

		Word-Advanced

Using list style

defining the numbering list style
combining paragraph style with list style

Header and Footer

odd header / footer
even header / footer
excluding the header / footer on the first page
Footnote
inserting a footnote
separator formatting

Border and shading

applying borders to page, paragraphs, tables or texts
shading page, paragraphs, tables and texts

Advanced Formatting

Space before / space after

Lines spacing

Widow and orphan control
keep lines together
keep with next

Section

inserting section break
creating mulitple columns documents
mixing different number of columns in a page
multiple headers and footers

Managing text and graphics

Managing graphics

contrast, brightness adjustment
cropping and resizing graphics
wrapping text around graphic

Table of Contents (TOC) and index

generating, updating toc
formatting toc entries
creating and update index
Figures
inserting captions
generating table of figures
updating table of figures

Maintaining consistency

discussions on features which can help users keeping format consistent throughout the whole report
using organiser
creating and managing template files