MOS WORD EXPERT 2016: Course Information

  • Exam Syllabus
  • Introduction
  • Who this course is for
  • Prerequisites
  • How this course is organized
  • Download the practice files
  • Adapt procedure steps

Adapt procedure steps

This course contains many images of user interface elements that you’ll work with while performing tasks in Word on a Windows computer. Depending on your screen resolution or program window width, the Word ribbon on your screen might look different from that shown in this course. (If you turn on Touch mode, the ribbon displays significantly fewer commands than in Mouse mode.) As a result, procedural instructions that involve the ribbon might require a little adaptation.

Simple procedural instructions use this format:

Image On the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group, click the Pictures button.

If the command is in a list, our instructions use this format:

Image On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Find & Select and then, in the Find & Select list, click Go To.

If differences between your display settings and ours cause a button to appear differently on your screen than it does in this course, you can easily adapt the steps to locate the command. First click the specified tab, and then locate the specified group. If a group has been collapsed into a group list or under a group button, click the list or button to display the group’s commands. If you can’t immediately identify the button you want, point to likely candidates to display their names in ScreenTips.

The instructions in this course assume that you’re interacting with on-screen elements on your computer by clicking (with a mouse, touchpad, or other hardware device). If you’re using a different method—for example, if your computer has a touchscreen interface and you’re tapping the screen (with your finger or a stylus)—substitute the applicable tapping action when you interact with a user interface element.

Instructions in this course refer to user interface elements that you click or tap on the screen as buttons, and to physical buttons that you press on a keyboard as keys, to conform to the standard terminology used in documentation for these products.