Cert Prep: Word 2010 Microsoft Office Specialist (77-881)

Become a Microsoft Office Specialist. Study to pass the MOS Word 2010 certification exam with our training videos, free exercise files, and full-length practice test.

Demonstrate your mastery of Microsoft Word. Study to pass the Microsoft Word 2010 certification exam and become a Microsoft Office Specialist. This course, created by Microsoft Certified Trainer Jennifer McBee, helps test-takers prepare for exam 77-881, which covers seven core objectives for Word 2010.

Explore the Microsoft certification program and then walk through all the exam objectives in detail. Learn about sharing and maintaining documents, formatting content, applying page layout and reusable content, including illustrations and graphics, proofreading documents, applying references and hyperlinks, and performing mail merge operations. Get hands-on experience with free downloadable practice files and take the challenges to test your skills. The course wraps with a full-length, 50-minute practice exam.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What to know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Using the learning supports

1. Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Exam Overview

• Understand the different kinds of Microsoft Office Specialist certifications
• Prepare for the exam
• Exam format and time allotment

2. Creating, Sharing, and Maintaining Documents

• Create new documents
• Insert text
• Apply different views to a document
• Protect a document
• Manage document versions
• Share documents
• Save a document
• Challenge: Share and maintain documents
• Solution: Share and maintain documents

3. Format Content

• Apply font attributes
• Apply paragraph attributes
• Navigate using Go To
• Use Find and Replace
• Apply indentation to paragraphs
• Apply tab settings to paragraphs
• Apply spacing settings to text and paragraphs
• Create tables
• Modify tables
• Create and apply bullets
• Challenge: Insert and format text
• Solution: Insert and format text

4. Applying Page Layout and Reusable Content

• Insert page, section, and column breaks
• Margins and hyphenation
• Apply themes
• Create and insert headers and footers
• Insert and modify text boxes
• Insert and modify cover pages and watermarks
• Add page backgrounds and borders
• Challenge: Apply page layout and reusable content
• Solution: Apply page layout and reusable content

5. Including Illustrations and Graphics

• Insert pictures, clip art, and shapes
• Format pictures, clip art, and shapes
• Insert and format SmartArt
• Insert and format WordArt
• Create Quick Parts from objects
• Challenge: Apply references
• Solution: Apply references

6. Proofreading Documents

• Use spelling and grammar check
• Configure AutoCorrect settings
• Insert and modify comments
• Challenge: Add document objects
• Solution: Add document objects

7. Applying References and Hyperlinks

• Insert and edit hyperlinks
• Create endnotes and footnotes
• Create and update a table of contents
• Challenge: Add document objects
• Solution: Add document objects

8. Performing Mail Merge Operations

• Set up a mail merge
• Execute a mail merge
• Challenge: Set up and execute a mail merge
• Solution: Set up and execute a mail merge

9. Practice Exam

• Challenge: Full-length MOS sample exam for Word 2010
• Solution: Full-length MOS sample exam for Word 2010

Conclusion

• Next steps