CERTIFICATE OF COURSE COMPETENCY
The undersigned parties certify that name of student of name of highschool High School
has completed the requirements for number of credits credits for the following Programs of Study
competency based course with a grade of B (3.0) or better.
BIM 102 Document Formatting
1-4 Credits
This course gives primary emphasis to the formatting of business documents using
Microsoft Word 2012.
The student is eligible to receive college credit for this course according to the provisions of the
articulated Programs of Study Agreement between the high school and college.
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CTE Instructor/Date
CTE Director/Date
Programs of Study Coordinator
Big Bend Community College’s competencies for this course are listed on the reverse side.
COURSE COMPETENCIES
BIM 102 – Document Formatting
1-4 credits
The student will be able to create, edit, and format the following in a mailable format with a minimum 85% competency:
 E-mail messages
 Business and academic reports
 Business letters and memos
 Envelopes and labels
 Tables
 Resumes, letters of application, and related employment documents
At the completion module competencies a student can earn 1 credit for each module.
Module 1 = 1 credit: Word Processing and E-mail and
Business Correspondence
Upon successfully completing the module, the student
will create, edit, and format the following with a
minimum 85 percent accuracy and no mailable errors:
e-mails, block-style business letters, envelopes, mailing
labels, and memos (see competencies listed).
1. Demonstrate acceptable language arts skills in
comma usage, sentence structure, and spelling
2. Correctly use basic Word features and functions

Start/Exit Word
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Open/Close a file
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Create a new document
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Print preview/Print
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Name/Save a file

Mini toolbar
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Quick Access Toolbar
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Ribbon/Ribbon Tabs
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ScreenTip
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Live Preview
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Navigate in a file/File Management

Switch windows
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Modify text
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Bold text
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Undo/Redo

Help
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Spell and Grammar Check

AutoCorrect
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Show/Hide formatting
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Zoom
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Email Commands
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Envelopes
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Labels
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Italic/Underline
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Tab
Module 2 = 1 credit: Reports and Tables
Upon successfully completing the module, the student
will create, edit, and format business and academic
reports and boxed, ruled, and open tables with a
minimum 85 percent accuracy and no mailable errors
(see competencies listed).
3. Demonstrate acceptable language arts skills in
capitalization, and apostrophes
4. Correctly identify and apply proofreaders’ marks
5. Correctly use basic Word features and functions

Module 1 competencies

Alignment Options
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Font/Font Size
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Page Numbering
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Page Break
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Widow/Orphan Control
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Bullets/Numbering
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Line Spacing
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Ruler Tabs
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Cut/Copy/Clipboard/Paste
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Create/Modify Tables
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Autofit
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Merge Cells
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Borders
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Alignment-Text/Page
Module 3 = 1 credit: Personal & Business
Correspondence and Reports
Upon successfully completing the module, the student
will create, edit, and format the following with a
minimum 85 percent accuracy and no mailable errors:
personal-business letters, memos and e-mails,
modified-block style letters, bound reports, and APA
and MLA style reports (see competencies listed).
6. Demonstrate acceptable language arts skills in
quotation marks, italics, underlines, and expressing
numbers
7. Demonstrate acceptable proofreading skills by
comparing lines of copy
8. Correctly use basic Word features and functions

Module 1 & 2 competencies

Set/Increase/Decrease Indents
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Email
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Tabs/Ruler Tabs/Edit Tabs
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Margins
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Footnotes
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Headers/Footers

Hyperlink
Module 4 = 1 credit: Employment Documents and Inbasket Review
Upon successfully completing the module, the student
will create, edit, and format the following with a
minimum 85 percent accuracy and no mailable errors:
basic resume, letters of application, other employment
documents, as well as a review of all other documents
discussed in Modules 1-3 (see competencies listed).
9. Demonstrate acceptable language arts skills in
composing paragraphs
10. Demonstrate acceptable proofreading skills by
editing lines of copy
11. Correctly use basic Word features and functions
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Module 1, 2, & 3 competencies
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Font
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Tables Edit Columns/Rows