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We are delivering Foundation & Advanced Microsoft Word Training Courses in Surrey throughout March including Byfleet, Crowhurst, Godalming, Guildford, Horley, Leatherhead, Redhill, Reigate & Weybridge.

The Foundation course is ideal for those who have little or no previous experience of using Microsoft Word and includes the following topics:

• Introduction to word processing.
• Overview of Microsoft Word’s menus & toolbars.
• Entering & formatting text.
• Saving & printing MS Word documents.

View the full Foundation Microsoft Word course content… 

 The Advanced course will suit experienced users who wish to become more profficient and effective at laying out professional-looking documents and includes the following topics:

• Creating & applying styles.
• Structuring a document with Levels.
• Creating a table of contents.
• How to create protected forms.
• Importing and editing photos & graphics.

View the full Advanced Microsoft Word course content…

For more information about our Microsoft Word training courses email info@pbatraining.co.uk or call us free on 0800 2922842.

Throughout 2009 our most popular courses have been Advanced Microsoft Excel, with Microsoft Project following a close second. Advanced Word is quite a way down the list and Foundation Word courses are near the bottom. Part of the reason for this is that Microsoft have done a pretty good job of making Microsoft Word very easy to use at a basic level and many people feel confident in their ability to teach themselves. However, there is a fundamental problem here best summed up by the old adage:“you don’t know what you don’t know.” In other words, you cannot teach yourself about features which you don’t know exist!

This is a pity as it means that many people are not getting the most out of the software for which they have invested a considerable amount of money. Many of the little know features can save considerable time on tasks, precisely the areas we should be learning about in order to be most productive.

What features am I referring to? Well, few people are really taking advantage of styles, which is one of the most powerful Microsoft Word tools you can use. A style is essentially a collection of formatting attributes which are named and saved. Styles have been around since the earliest incarnations of Word, but Microsoft Word 2007 really pushes the boat out with a large gallery of pre-defined styles on the ‘home’ ribbon. The big advantage to using styles over simple text formatting is the facility to modify them and in so doing, automatically update every instance where it has been used throughout the document.

Another underused feature of Microsoft Word is the Level. Levels give a document structure which can be used to drive other tools such as the Table of Contents generator. This feature alone saves me countless hours when writing training courses, yet few people take advantage of it.

These features and many more are covered in our 1 day Advanced Word training course. If you would like more information please call 07833 543272 or email paul@pbatraining.co.uk

We have scheduled an Advanced Microsft Word course for Tuesday 8 December 09. During this 1 day practical workshop you will learn how to properly structure a document using styles and levels, how to build a table of contents and index, how to insert bookmarks and cross references, how to create editable forms amd also how to save time with macros. Course fee is £125 including lunch and all day refeshments. For more details please visit the Microsoft Project Training page on our website. Alternatively email bookings@pbatraining.co.uk or phone 07833 543272.

There will be 2 Foundation IT courses running at Open Door in Grimsby on 15th & 16th April 09. Please contact Jane Mouncey on 07881 841905 for more details.

In association with e-factor we will be running IT Matters foundation computer courses on the following dates:

Open Door, Grimsby: April 1st, 15th, 16th & 23rd

For more details please telephone Open Door on 01472 720333

In assocation with Kingsway Consulting Ltd, we will be conducting a Foundation Word IT course on 24th March. For more details please contact Kingsway Consulting  on 01724 294040.

We will be runing an IT Matters foundation Microsoft Word course on 9th February at Nunsthorpe Children’s Centre, grimsby.

Paul Brown Associates will be running an Intermediate Word workshop at Kingsway consulting on 24th October 2008. To reserve a place on this course, please contact us or phone Kingsway Consulting on 01724 295040.

IT courses continue at Kingsway Consulting this week with the following 1-day workshops 

• Thursday 8th: Intermediate Word
• Friday 9th: Internet Skills

The trainer for all of these is Paul Brown. For details of these courses please contact Cat Symington, Business Development Co-ordinator on:  07825842501 

IT courses continue this week at Kingsway Consulting with the following 1-day workshops:

• Monday 29th: Basic Word 
• Thursday 1st: Intermediate Excel
• Friday 2nd: Basic Powerpoint

The trainer for all of these is Paul Brown. For details of these courses please contact Cat Symington, Business Development Co-ordinator on:  07825842501