Syllabus: MicroSoft Office Specialist/WORD 2000 (MOUS)
One Mester, 5 credits, Course #: 211076
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Based on MS
Office Specialist Certificaiton Requirements.
Exam tips:
http://www.microsoft.com/traincert/mcp/officespecialist/examtips.asp
Outline of Microsoft Office Specialist Exam Objectives and Skills
Exam objectives are categories of examination tasks, identified by subject-matter experts, that certify an ability to productively use Microsoft Office programs. These categories are organized into skill sets representing the more basic functions of each Office program.
Word
2000 Expert
Working with Paragraphs
- Apply paragraph and section shading
- Use text flow options (keeping lines together)
- Sort lists, paragraphs, and tables
Working with Documents
- Create and modify page borders
- Format first page differently than subsequent pages
- Use bookmarks
- Create and edit styles
- Create watermarks
- Use Find and Replace with formats, special characters, and nonprinting elements
- Balance column length (using column breaks appropriately)
- Create or revise footnotes and endnotes
- Work with master documents and subdocuments
- Create and modify a table of contents
- Create cross reference
- Create and modify an index
Using Tables
- Embed worksheets in a table
- Perform calculations in a table
- Link Microsoft Excel data as a table
- Modify worksheets in a table
Working with Pictures and Charts
- Add bitmap graphics
- Delete and position graphics
- Create and modify charts
- Import data into charts
Using Mail Merge
- Create main document
- Create data source
- Sort records to be merged
- Merge main document and data source
- Generate labels
- Merge a document using alternate data sources
Using Advanced Features
- Insert a field
- Create, apply, and edit macros
- Copy, rename, and delete macros
- Create and modify form
- Create and modify a form control (for example, add an item to a drop-down list)
- Use advanced text alignment features with graphics
- Customize toolbars
Collaborating with Workgroups
- Insert comments
- Help protect documents
- Create multiple versions of a document
- Track changes to a document
- Set default file location for workgroup templates
- Round trip documents from HTML
| Word Processing | Create a one page resume including personal information (can be sample info), educational experience, work experience, educational goals, career goals. |
| Word Processing | Create a plan for four year schedule of classes using tables. Indicate required and elective classes. |
| Word Processing | Create a one page announcement flier using clip art. Show the use of two fonts, regular and italic styles, |
| Word Processing | Create a one page newsletter using two columns. |
| Spreadsheet | Create a spreadsheet which calculates the expenses of a birthday party attended by ten members and involving eight purchases. |
| Spreadsheet | Create a spreadsheet which calculates the deductions for ten employees, including state and federal taxes, social security, health insurance, disability, retirement. |
| Spreadsheet | Create a bar graph based on the birthday party spreadsheet and paste it into a word processing document. Explain the graph in that one page. |
| Spreadsheet | Create a pie graph based on the employee payroll spreadsheet and paste it into a word processing document. Explain the graph in that one page. |
| Database | Create a database inventorying six CDs, recording artist, song composer, record company, year, song titles, music categories, song length. |
| Database | Create a report based on the CD database. |
| Presentation | Create an eight page presentation that displays a clear, logical sequence using good word processing skills. |
| Presentation | Create a three page html presentation that is logically linked. |
| Research Skills | Reference content downloaded from the Internet: Two images and two text references. |
| AUP | One page essay on in the importance of respecting Intellectual property rights and correctly referencing content. |
| AUP | One page essay on the importance of every organization that provides Internet access to enforce an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). |
| AUP | Pass the Jefferson High School LAUSDnet Student Internet test and get an LAUSDnet account. |
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