Advanced ECDL: Word Processing

The following is the Syllabus for Module AM3, Word Processing, Advanced Level, which provides the basis for the practice-based text in this module domain. The Syllabus for Module AM3 is over and above the Skills Sets and underpinning knowledge contained within the ECDL Module 3, Word Processing. The advanced level designation for Module AM3 anticipates that the candidate has already mastered the Skills Sets and acquired the knowledge outlined in Module3 of the ECDL Syllabus.

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Apply text wrapping options for graphical objects (picture, image, chart, diagram, drawn object), tables.
Use find and replace options like: font formats, paragraph formats, paragraph marks, page breaks.
Use paste special options: formatted text, unformatted text.
Apply line spacing within paragraphs: at least, exactly/ fixed, multiple/proportional.
Apply, remove paragraph pagination options.
Apply, modify outline numbering in multi-level lists.
Create, modify, update a character style.
Create, modify, update a paragraph style.
Apply multiple column layouts. Change number of columns in a column layout.
Change column widths and spacing. Insert, remove lines between columns.
Insert, delete a column break.
Apply a table autoformat/table style.
Merge, split cells in a table.
Change cell margins, alignment, text direction.
Automatically repeat heading row(s) at the top of each page.
Allow, do not allow row(s) to break across pages.
Sort data by one column, by multiple columns at the same time.
Convert delimited text to a table.
Convert a table to text.

Add a caption above, below a graphical object, table.
Add, delete a caption label.
Change caption number format.
Insert, modify footnotes, endnotes.
Convert a footnote to an endnote. Convert an endnote to a footnote.
Create, update a table of contents based on specified heading styles and formats.
Create, update a table of figures based on specified styles and formats.
Mark an index: main entry, subentry. Delete a marked index entry.
Create, update an index based on marked index entries.
Add, delete a bookmark.
Create, delete a cross-reference to: numbered item, heading, bookmark, figure, table.
Add a cross-reference to an index entry.

Insert, delete fields like: author, file name and path, file size, fill-in/input.
Insert a sum formula field code in a table.
Change field number format.
Lock, unlock, update a field.
Create, modify a form using available form field options: text field, check box, drop-down menu.
Add help text to a form field: visible on status bar, activated by F1 Help key.
Protect, unprotect a form.
Modify a template.
Edit, sort a mail merge recipient list.
Insert ask, if…then…else… fields.
Merge a document with a recipient list using given merge criteria.
Insert, edit, remove a hyperlink.
Link data from a document, application and display as an object, icon.
Update, break a link.
Embed data into a document as an object.
Edit, delete embedded data.
Apply automatic text formatting options.
Create, modify, delete automatic text correction entries.
Create, modify, insert, delete automatic text entries.
Record a simple macro like: change page setup, insert a table with a repeating heading row, insert fields in document header, footer.
Run a macro.
Assign a macro to a custom button on a toolbar.

Turn on, off track changes. Track changes in a document using a specified display view.
Accept, reject changes in a document.
Insert, edit, delete, show, hide comments/notes.
Compare and merge documents.
Create a new master document by creating sub documents from headings.
Insert, remove a subdocument in a master document.
Use text outline/navigator options: promote, demote, expand, collapse, move up, move down.
Add, remove password protection for a document: to open, to modify.
Protect a document to only allow tracked changes or comments.

Create, modify, delete section breaks in a document.
Change page orientation, page vertical alignment, margins for sections of a document.
Apply different headers and footers to sections, first page, odd and even pages in a document.
Add, modify, remove a watermark in a document.