Microsoft Word
Pre-Course Questionnaire
Please complete this form so that we can assess your training needs. Please note that the answers you give to
this pre-course questionnaire will be held in complete confidence. It is important that you answer the questions
as accurately as you can, to help us to select the course that would be most beneficial to you.
Type your name, then use the Tab key to move sequentially through the first page and then on to the second. If
you can confidently do the following or answer yes to a statement, press the space bar to check the box, if you
check a box by mistake you can press the space bar again to uncheck it.
Please email the completed questionnaire to info@ashbee.co.uk as soon as you can after receiving it.
Full name:
Company:
Email address:
Date:
Your Word Skills:
Have never used it
Have you attended any of these Word
training courses with us or another company?
Basic
Average
Introduction
Or Level 1
Average +
Intermediate
or Level 2
Good
Advanced or
Level 3
Understand and know how to change the Quick
Access Toolbar (QAT)
Create and save a document
Save a document with a different name
Insert a date to show the current date within a
document
Apply Spelling and Grammar checks
Preview and print a document
Navigate through a document
Select blocks of text, eg a word, a paragraph, the
whole document
Inserting symbols and special characters
Use Find and Replace
Cut, copy and paste blocks of text
Change font type and size, eg change from Arial
to Times New Roman, and from 10 to 12
Change font styles and underlines, eg bold,
italic, double underline, strike through
Apply special effects to Fonts, eg highlights,
cases, colour, text effects, shadow
Use Format Painter
Alter line and paragraph spacing
Change paragraph alignment, eg left, right,
centre, justified
Change page options, eg margin settings ,
orientation, paper size, page breaks, page
numbers
Change paragraph indents, eg left and right
indents
Use Headings – View, Edit, Add
Work with multiple documents
Apply special indents, eg first line indents,
hanging paragraphs
Understand keeping lines and paragraphs
together
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Apply borders and shading to a document
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Use hard and soft returns and hyphenation
Set and remove custom tabs
Insert bullets and numbers to paragraphs
Use multilevel numbering, eg 1, 1.1, 1.1.1 etc
Create and modify tables
Use Building Blocks, eg blocks of text, images,
logos etc that can be inserted into documents
Use Styles, eg for consistency in long document
Use and modify Themes – combination of theme
colour, fonts and effects for consistency
Create and modify Templates
Create section breaks and understand the
different types
Create headers and footers
Create a simple mail merge for letters
Insert and manipulate pictures, eg replace,
remove background, change colouring
Create drawings and illustrations using Clip Art,
Shapes, SmartArt and Screenshot
Insert a cover page and watermark,
Apply page colours and page borders and lines
Save a document as a PDF
In Mail Merge, exclude, filter and sort recipients
In Mail Merge, apply an If..Then..Else rule and a
Fill-In rule
Create and modify Text Boxes
Insert SmartArt, eg organization chart
Create and navigate with Bookmarks
Insert and format a Table of Contents
Index a long document
Insert Fields, including Document Information,
Formula, Date and Time fields
Use interactive fields, eg FillIn fields, Ask
fields, Ref fields
Create a Master document and SubDocuments
Apply and remove Track Changes
Understand the different ways to protect a
document, eg read-only, password protect,
restrict formatting and editing
Create electronic forms with fields that force
users to move to specific areas, eg this form
Record macros to optimise performance
Import data from Excel into a word document
Are there any specific aims you would like to achieve on the course, or problems that you are currently having?
Thank you for taking the time to complete this questionnaire.
© ashbee Computer Services
MS Word Questionnaire
Tel: 01483 810500
Email: info@ashbee.co.uk
Website: http://www.ashbee.co.uk