Microsoft Office · Beginner level

Beginner level · Module 3 of 5 · 10 guided hours

Formatting Professional Documents in Word

Make documents look professional and consistent using styles, lists, tables, images, headers and footers.

Learning objectives

  • Apply character and paragraph formatting consistently
  • Insert and format tables and images
  • Use headers, footers and page numbers

Topics

  • fonts and paragraph formatting
  • bullets and numbering
  • tables
  • images and text wrapping
  • headers, footers and page numbers

Lessons

  1. Lesson 1 Text, Paragraph and List Formatting

    Format text and paragraphs and build bulleted and numbered lists for readable documents.

    font and sizeparagraph spacingindentationlists

  2. Lesson 2 Tables and Images

    Organise information in tables and add images that sit correctly with text.

    table rows/columnstable styletext wrappingimage compression

  3. Lesson 3 Headers, Footers and Page Numbers

    Add consistent headers, footers and page numbers to multi-page documents.

    header/footerpage number fieldpage breakdifferent first page

Practical activity

Produce a professional one-page CV and a two-page organisation profile with a table, images, header and page numbers.

Expected outcomes

  • Consistently formatted professional documents
  • A CV ready for job applications

Assessment

CV and profile assessed with a formatting rubric (consistency, layout, accuracy).

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