Teaching Microsoft Word 2007 Using JAWS - Syllabus

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Lesson 1: Desktop and Office 2007 Layout and Structure

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will have mastered these three skills:

• Understand the structure of the Windows Desktop.
• Understand the structure of the screen once an Office 2007 program has been opened.
• Be able to use native Windows or screen reader keystrokes to access the components of the Windows Desktop and to open and close Office 2007 menus and toolbars.

Lesson 2: The Office Button and Menu

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these two skills:

• Understand the types of tasks contained on the Office Menu.
• Open and navigate the Office Menu.

Lesson 3: The Context Menu

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these two skills:

• Understand the types of tasks contained on the Context Menu.
• Open and navigate the Context Menu.

Lesson 4: The Quick Access Toolbar

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these two skills:

• Access the items on the Quick Access Toolbar.
• Customize the Quick Access Toolbar.

Lesson 5: The Ribbon

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these three skills:

• Understand how the Ribbon is organized and navigated.
• Locate functions which can only be activated using the Ribbon.
• Place desired Ribbon functions on the Quick Access Toolbar.

Lesson 6: Opening New and Existing Documents

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will master these four skills:

• Create a new document using a shortcut key.
• Open a recently used document.
• Open an existing document from the file list.
• Create a new document from the Office Menu using a desired template.

Lesson 7: It Pays to Save!

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these three skills:

• Quickly save a Microsoft Word 2007 document.
• Learn to save a document under a different name, to a different location or in a different format.
• Set up Word so that an open document will automatically be saved at regular intervals.

Lesson 8: Editing Basics

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these five skills:

• Navigate through, read, select and delete text.
• Understand the importance of shortcut keys and the Context Menu when editing a document.
• Find and replace text.
• Cut, copy, and paste text within a document.
• Understand the difference between the Windows Clipboard and the Office Clipboard and how to use each.

Lesson 9: Formatting Basics

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these five skills:

• Understand the importance of the Context Menu and shortcut keys for formatting text.
• Set formatting attributes before and after text is typed.
• Set a variety of font attributes such as size, style and color.
• Left, center and right align text.
• Create professional looking lists using bullets and numbering.

Lesson 10: Spell Checking and Other Proofing

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, the student will be able to master these five skills:

• Perform basic proofreading tasks.
• Use the Spelling and Grammar Dialog Box.
• Correct errors manually.
• Use the Thesaurus.
• Change the type and amount of information JAWS reads by customizing verbosity settings and selecting appropriate speech and sound schemes.

Lesson 11: Printing

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these five skills:

• Understand the difference between the Page Setup Dialog Box and the Print Dialog Box and when to use each.
• Move between pages and controls on the Page Setup Dialog Box.
• Change margins, orientation and paper size.
• Select a printer and number of copies and print a document.
• Be able to quickly print a document, without changing any printing parameters.

Lesson 12: Tables

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these five skills:

• Understand what tables are and how they are used in Microsoft Word documents.
• Be able to move within and between tables.
• Be able to insert or remove a table.
• Be able to change the size of a table by inserting or deleting rows and columns.
• Be able to enter data into a table.

Lesson 13: Columns

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these two skills:

• Understand what columns are and the way they affect the formatting of a document.
• Know when and how to create newspaper style columns in a document.

Lesson 14: Styles

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these five skills:

• Understand what styles are and the advantages of using a style.
• Know how to apply styles to a Microsoft Word Document.
• Adjust JAWS to provide formatting information and know how to use that information to confirm style changes.
• Be able to modify an existing style.
• Be able to create a new style and assign it a shortcut key combination for quick use.

Lesson 15: Sections

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these four skills:

• Understand the benefit of using sections within a document.
• Know the difference between page and section breaks.
• Create or delete sections within a document.
• Be able to adjust formatting by section.

Lesson 16: Footnotes and Endnotes

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these four skills:

• Understand how and why footnotes and endnotes are used in Microsoft Word documents and identify the differences between them.
• Insert, read and delete footnotes and endnotes.
• Adjust verbosity and View Menu settings so that JAWS can properly read footnotes and endnotes.
• Customize the format of footnotes and endnotes.

Lesson 17: Headers and Footers

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these seven skills:

• Explain the purpose of and difference between headers and footers.
• Create basic and customized headers and footers.
• Edit headers and footers.
• Add page numbers to headers and footers.
• Remove headers and footers.
• Understand building blocks and how they pertain to headers and footers.
• Create a building block and use it in a new location.

Lesson 18: Indexes and Tables of Contents

Concepts Covered

Upon completion of this lesson, your student will be able to master these seven skills:

• Understand how and why indexes and tables of contents are used in Microsoft Word documents and identify the differences between them.
• Change Microsoft Word’s display settings to enable JAWS to correctly identify entries for an index.
• Mark entries for use in an index.
• Insert an index in a document.
• Update a pre-existing index to include a new entry.
• Understand the importance of the use of headings for the creation of a table of contents.
• Insert a table of contents, using either default settings or customized settings.

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