Quizzes

1. The following quizzes are from Internet4Classrooms and/or Memphis-schools in Tennessee. Highly recommended!

   • A short quiz on the standard toolbar
   • A short quiz on the formatting toolbar  from the same school.
   • A short quiz on the drawing toolbar from the same school.
   • A quiz on the menu bar
   • Tough quiz on Insert and Format menus
   • Quiz on the Tools, Window and Help menus
      
2. Two short Word quizzes from Chaminade.org 

• Quiz 1
• Quiz 2

2. Custom Guide.com Word quizzes from a computer courseware publisher

3. Easy/medium quiz from the University of Hawaii

4. Very easy quiz: revision of icons and buttons in Word from a UK site (www.school-resources.co.uk) 

5. Advanced quiz from College of Eastern Utah

6. Medium quiz from the College of Northern Illinois

Tutorials: Online Lessons

• Very nice tutorial for Word 2000 from Florida Gulf Coast University.

• One on One:very good step by step guide to Word. Medium difficulty.

• Very clear and detailed intro to Word 97 from the Land Grant Alliance

• From the BayconGroup website, a Word Tutorial.

• Another Word tutorial from a Canadian site: Tele-education - very clear with very few words and lots of pictures.

• From Internet4Classrooms, very good and very simple lessons on the toolbars and on how to do different things in Word.

• A Word 97 tutorial from Barnard College, New York

• A Word tutorial for high school students. From Monroe schools in Florida. 

Reference

• Three very good PDF (Acrobat Reader) files from Canterbury Christ Church University College in the UK on Word. Not automatic, but worth reading and very good reference. 

  • Part 1 Getting started, entering text, correcting, saving, printing 

  • Part 2 Basic layout, paragraphs, alignment of text, tabs, indents 

  • Part 3 Spelling and grammar checking, using the thesaurus 

  • Part 4 Selecting text, moving, copying and deleting text 

  • Part 5 selecting text, formatting, using bold, italic, underline, changing fonts and sizes 

  • Part 6 Tables 

  • Part 7 Using outline to organise ideas 

  • Part 8 Adding a graphic, formatting a picture, moving and resizing a picture, adding and using a text box 

• Download a free Word 2000 Manual from KnowWareGlobal.com. Get Going with Microsoft Word 2000 (50 pages: Acrobat Reader file: Right-click to download and select "Save Target as.." 550 kb)

• A long list of How To from Computertim Technologies. Find what you want to do, and read the steps. Good for Medium to Advanced users.

Links to Other Resources

• Infotouch.com.au, an Australian site, has a nice 30-question test like the ICDL. You have to sign up first. Slow to download.

Module 3: What you need to know!

When you complete this module, you'll be able to use a word processing application on a personal computer. You'll be able to: 

• Create, format, finish and print a word processing document
• Move text within a document, copy and delete text.
• Bold, centre, and underline text
• Create standard tables.
• Use a spell-check program.
• Use pictures and images within a document. 
• Import objects. 
• Use mail merge tools.