This module sets out advanced skills that can be used to produce complex documents, enhance outputs, and improve productivity, when using a word processing application.
Category
Formatting
Skill Set
Skill Set
Task Item
Recognise good practice in maintaining consistent and accessible design and format throughout a document by using styles, alternative text.
Skill Set
Task Item
Apply a table autoformat/table style.
Merge, split cells in a table. Split a table.
Change cell margins, alignment, text direction.
Automatically repeat heading row(s) at the top of each page.
Allow, do not allow row(s) to break across pages.
Sort data by one column, by multiple columns at the same time.
Skill Set
Task Item
Insert, edit a citation like: book, article, conference proceedings, website, report.
Set, modify citation style.
Create, update a bibliography.
Skill Set
Task Item
Create, update a table of contents based on specified heading styles and formats.
Create, update a table of figures based on specified styles and formats.
Edit a table of contents, table of figures like: heading styles, format, leaders.
Mark an index: main entry, subentry. Delete a marked index entry.
Create, update an index based on marked index entries.
Skill Set
Task Item
Create, update, delete a cross-reference to: numbered item, heading, bookmark, figure, table.
Add a cross-reference to an index entry.
Category
Enhancing Productivity
Skill Set
Task Item
Create a simple chart in a document.
Link data from a document, application and display as an object, icon.
Update, break a link.
Embed data into a document as an object.
Edit, delete embedded data
Category
Collaborative Editing
Skill Set
Tracking and Reviewing
Task Item
Turn on, off track changes. Track changes in a document locally, online using a specified display view.
Accept, reject changes in a document locally, online.
Insert, edit, delete, show, hide comments/notes in a document locally, online.
Compare and merge documents.
Skill Set
Security
Task Item
Add, remove password protection for a document: to open, to modify.
Protect a document to only allow tracked changes or comments
Category
Preparing Outputs
Skill Set
Sections
Task Item
Create, modify, delete section breaks in a document.
Change page orientation, page vertical alignment, margins for sections of a document.
Skill Set
Document Setup
Task Item
Apply different headers and footers to sections, first page, odd and even pages in a document.
Add, modify, remove a watermark in a document.
Skill Set
Spelling, Thesaurus
Task Item
Set, modify default spell check language.
Use Thesaurus to search, insert alternative word(s).