Getting Started with Word Survey
The following skills survey is designed to help you evaluate your skills using Microsoft Word. Complete the skills assessments before you begin this training module and after you have completed the module. Take a few minutes to answer the following questions and leave the form with the lab assistant or your instructor. Your instructor or lab assistant will provide a scan-tron form for you to use to answer the questions.
Directions:
On your scan-tron form, please write the following information:
1) Your Last Name, First Name
2) Today’s date
3) Where the form says Subject, please write the name and number of the course in which you are enrolled, for example CA 303
4) Where the form says, Test No., please write Getting Started with Word.
5) Where the form says, Hour, please write “1” if you have not completed the training workbook for this course, or “2” if you have completed the training workbook for this course.
On this form, mark the letters A through E.
§ A means “I have never done this before."
§ B means, " I did this task once or twice before."
§ C means, " I have done this task several times before."
§ D means, "I have done this task many times and feel very comfortable doing this task."
§ E means “I am very experienced with this task."
Your answers should reflect how well you feel you could complete the specified tasks. There are no right or wrong answers.
1. Open Microsoft Word from the Start menu.
2. Open Microsoft Word from a desktop icon.
3. Rename a document.
4. Create a new document.
5. Use Help to find an answer to a question
6. Use AutoComplete tips for AutoText entries.
7. Change paragraph spacing in a document.
8. Apply styles in a document.
9. Use the Format Painter to copy characters and paragraph formats.
10. Add a page break to a document.
11. Change font size in a document.
12. Find and replace text in a document.
13. Change text alignment in a document.
14. Change font type and font size.
15. Change margins in a document.
16. Indent a paragraph in a document.
17. Rename a document.
18. Check spelling and grammar in a document.
19. Use the Browse Object button to scroll through a document by page.
20. Create a macro that repeats a series of key presses or steps automatically.
21. Use the Insert Table button to create a table.
22. Use the Tables and Borders button to create a table.
23. Use the AutoSum button to sum the values in a table.
24. Save a document as a web page.
25. Open a Word document as a web page using your Web browser.