Document Production Skills Checklist

The list below shows you the skills that you should be comfortable with in terms of
document production. Work through the list and check off all of the skills you
currently have. Any areas that you have not checked must be revised.
The Where can I find help section refers to the Section 10 Self Study Workbook
found on this web page: http://www.ictlounge.com/html/documentproduction.htm

Skill

Can I do
this?
(tick)

Where can I
find help?

Opening and Saving Documents:

Opening a word document
2. Saving a word document
1.

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Text:
3. Inserting text as a table
4. Typing in text
5. Moving text to different positions
(cut, paste etc)
6. Editing text ( changing wording or
spelling etc)

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Images:
7. Insert clipart images
8. Insert images from file
9. Resize an image keep aspect ratio
(keeping the shape)
10. Resize an image without aspect ratio
11. Wrap text around images
12. Align images accurately
13. Rotate images
14. Crop images

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Page Layout:
15. Change page size
16. Change page orientation (landscape
and portrait)
17. Change margin sizes

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Headers and Footers:

18. Insert a 3-column header
19. Insert a 3-column footer
20. Insert the date into a header/footer
21. Insert a page number into a
header/footer

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22. Insert a filename and path into the

header/footer

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Page Breaks:
23. Understand the different types of
page breaks
24. Insert a section next page break
25. Insert a continuous break

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Columns:
26. Insert and edit columns

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Font Styles and Formatting:

27. Understand the difference between
serif fonts and sans-serif fonts
28. Change font style and size of text
29. Change text colour
30. Highlight text
31. Make text italic
32. Make text bold
33. Underline text

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Bullet and Number Lists:

34. Create a bullet list
35. Create a numbered list
36. Indent a bullet/numbered list

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Tables:
37. Create a table
38. Delete table columns
39. Delete table rows
40. Insert table columns
41. Insert table rows
42. Align data in a table horizontally
43. Align data in a table vertically
44. Change background colours of table
45. Resize column widths
46. Removing / Enlarging table gridlines

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Text Alignment, Line Spacing and Indenting Paragraphs:

47. Align body text
48. Changing line spacing
49. Use the ruler to indent paragraphs

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Checking for Errors:

50. Find and remove widows/orphans
51. Run spell check

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NOTE:
FOR EVEN MORE HELP, YOU SHOULD ALSO TAKE A
LOOK AT THE VIDEOS FOUND ON:
http://www.ictlounge.com/html/documentproduction.htm