Introduction to Word

If you’re brand new to Word and word processing software, or want to build your confidence, this is the course for you. In this beginner level one-day course, you will learn all the essential features to be able to create and alter simple documents, such as letters, memos and reports.

Course Overview

New to Word? This friendly course helps you build the confidence and skills to create, edit and format great-looking documents with ease.

 

Why take this course?

  • Learn the essentials of Microsoft Word step by step
  • Create professional-looking letters, reports, and more
  • Build confidence with formatting, spacing and saving documents
  • Great for beginners or those needing a refresher

Who is this course for?

This course is ideal for people who are new to Word or who would like to improve their basic skills and create clear, well-presented documents with confidence.

Duration

1 day

Classroom size

8 approx.

Location

Online or Classroom

Certificate

1 Certification

Experience

Beginner

What you will learn

  • Create, save and find documents using Word
  • Add text, format it and check it for mistakes
  • Move around easily in a Word document
  • Move text around
  • Format text – including the use of styles
  • Insert and edit pictures
  • Change the page layout – including margins, headers and footers and page breaks
  • Print your document

Course Timetable

This course will be taught in the latest version of the software. We can train this in older versions if needed – please get in touch for more information and availability.

Session 1: Working with Word Documents & Corrections

This session teaches you how to create documents from scratch. You will also learn how to check spelling, grammar and more in Word. Did you know you can undo or redo changes even after you have saved your file?

  • Open, find, save and close your document
  • Create a new document
  • Add text
  • Use Undo and Redo
  • Move around inside a Word document
  • Spellcheck

Session 2: Automatic Formatting

Learn how to copy text from anywhere and paste them correctly in your document. We will show you how to use the Format Painter to automatically apply same formatting to multiple areas within your document. Learn how to add visual interest to your Word document by creating Number or bullet list.

  • Select text within the document
  • Cut, Copy and Paste
  • Change Text
  • Paragraph Formatting
  • Use basic Styles to format
  • Copy formatting changes with Format Painter
  • Create Bullet Points or a Numbered List

Session 3: Images, Page Setup & Printing

This session will show you how to insert images into your document so it livens your documents in seconds. You will learn how to add page numbers to each page of your document.

  • Insert a Picture from your files or from the internet
  • Change the way text flows around the picture
  • Add a Header or Footer
  • Add Page Numbers
  • Use Page Breaks
  • Print your document

Ready to take the next step?

We are here to help!

This course is only available as a one-to-one or private group booking.

For pricing and availability, send us a message using the form, leave us a message on 020 7375 7300, or speak to an Account Manager straight away using our Live Chat service in the bottom right of your screen!

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Looking for Private Group Training?

If you have three or more learners, a private group training could be cheaper.

We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy’s HQ in Aldgate, Central London.

The Happy guarantee

We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.

If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course.

We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.

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Because Happiness Works

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Expert-Led & Hands-On

Our award-winning training isn’t just theoretical. It’s packed with practical tools you can use straight away.

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Classroom or live online learning available

Both available for public and private dates.

The small print

For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)

The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of three 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between. 

All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven’t received this email then please contact our team.

Learners should log into the session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. Unfortunately you will be asked to leave and attend a different day if you arrive more than 15 minutes late for online sessions, and more than 30 minutes late for classroom sessions.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

For classroom sessions

All public classroom sessions take place at Happy’s HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.

The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.

Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.

FAQs

What if I have a Mac?

If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.