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.

Skill Set

Task Item

Recognise good practice in maintaining consistent and accessible design and format throughout a document by using styles, alternative text.

Create, modify, update a character style.

Create, modify, update a paragraph style.

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.

Convert delimited text to a table.

Convert a table to text

Task Item

Insert, edit a citation like: book, article, conference proceedings, website, report.

Set, modify citation style.

Create, update a bibliography.

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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 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).