Honorary president: Judith Butcher Honorary vice-president: David Crystal OBE

Prerequisites for On-screen editing 2

Essential skills

You must understand:

• how to use a PC or Mac, mouse and pull-down menus with confidence
• how to create folders and manage files
• the concept of styling
• the concept of document templates
• how to use Find & Replace
• how to format characters to be bold, italic, subscript, superscript, small caps, etc.
• what macros are.

You must have all the skills above. Otherwise you should acquire them before the course or take On-screen editing 1.

Strongly recommended skill

You should understand the basic concept of how characters are represented by ASCII codes.

Recommended skills (Microsoft Word)

You understand:

• adding and attaching templates
• creating and applying styles
• recording and using macros
• using features such as:
  
  
  • show/hide
  • shortcut keys
  • the Help tool
  • borders
  • inserting en rules and en spaces.

Remember that, although the OSE courses are based on Microsoft Word on an IBM-compatible PC, the principles are, in general, portable to other word processors (e.g. WordPerfect) and operating systems (e.g. Macintosh). However, because OSE 2 follows on from OSE 1, familiarity with Word is recommended (but not essential) in order to get the most out of the day. This familiarity can be gained on a PC or a Macintosh.

If you have any questions about these requirements, please contact the tutor .

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