MS- Word or Google Docs?
In Comp 030, you learned to:
- create a new word processing document
- open and edit an existing document
- save a document to a storage drive
- print a document
- retrieve a document
- use editing tools, such as a spell checker or thesaurus
Along with a review of these topics, you will learn some new word processing skills in this module. Upon successful completion, you will be able to:
- format a page using basic page layout properties (margins, justification, bold-face and line spacing)
- demonstrate the ability to use help features and tutorials
- create headers, footers and page numbering
- manipulate margins
- create tables, columns, and page and section breaks
In this module, we focus on instructions for using Microsoft Word or Google Docs but the functions that you will learn apply to any word processing program. Some other choices that you might consider for your own use include the following:
- Apache Open Office and Libre Office – these are two different but similar software packages that you can download, for free, to your computer. Each of them has many of the features of Microsoft Office, including a word processing program similar to Word.
- Microsoft Office 365 – Office 365 is a web-based version of Microsoft’s various office software packages, including Word.
This module is divided into the sections below. Choose either Microsoft Word or Google Docs – you do not need to learn about both (unless you want to).