Skills inventory for Word 2003: Basic

Use the following form to gauge students’ skill level entering the class (students have copies in the introductions of their student manuals). For each skill listed, have students rate their familiarity from 1 to 5, with five being the most familiar. Emphasize that this is not a test. Rather, it’s intended to provide students with an idea of where they’re starting from at the beginning of class. If a student is wholly unfamiliar with all the skills, he or she might not be ready for the class. A student who seems to understand every skill, on the other hand, might need to move on to the next course in the series.

 

Skill	1	2	3	4	5
Creating a document
Saving and closing a document
Entering text
Using Help
Navigating in a document
Using AutoCorrect
Deleting text
Using Undo and Redo
Selecting, moving, and copying text
Finding and replacing text
Formatting characters and paragraphs
Setting tabs
Creating and managing tables
Adding headers and footers
Working with margins and page breaks
Checking spelling and grammar
Using the Thesaurus
Saving a document as an HTML file
Inserting hyperlinks
Sending Word documents via e-mail