Microsoft Word: Controlling Document Design

Audience: Academic staff, PG research, Professional staff, Research staff, Research supervisors

Date: Wednesday 11 February 2026

Times: 14.00 to 16.30

Key details: Learn skills to create more complex and efficient layouts. (Town centre classroom; in-person)

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Qualifications needed

This course presumes a confident knowledge of Word fundamental skills and interface (comfortable with creating documents and using basic formatting).

Course information

This course will give you the tools to control the structure of your documents; organise and manage layouts to produce more professional looking documents.

Topics include:

Using tabs in tabular layouts
Using and designing with tables
Using page and section breaks to control the flow of content
Controlling headers/footers and pagination
Using images effectively
Editing PDF files in Word

Based on Office 365 for Windows.

This course is not recommended to those who have attended the Word course, Producing a Thesis, as there will be an overlap of topics.

NOTE: These are live, classroom sessions requiring attendance at the stated venue.

These courses are not open to those on Taught Postgraduate programmes.

Tutors

Sonny Evans

Venue

Butts Wynd 01 Computer Classroom

Course provider

IELLI
Email: ielli@st-andrews.ac.uk