Candidates with ECDL Advanced Word Processing certified skills can:

• Create and manage large, complex word processing projects
• Illustrate sophisticated typographical, formatting and layout presentations, including tables, forms and graphics
• Use tools such as macros
• Carry out more advanced mail merge operations
• Work effectively on large collaborative projects
  
  

ECDL Advanced Word Processing is targetting people both at the workplace, business and the education and it is particularly suitable for:

• Personnel who require advanced integrated office skills to timely execute their duties and/or support their executives, directors and managers
• Secretaries, Personal and Management Assistants who prepare complicated reports and documents for the executives, directors and managers 
•  Teachers at all levels of education who wish to enhance and enrich their skills and apply advanced techniques to their work, student assignments, exercises and tests
• Journalists and newspapers editors who integrate content from various sources
• Students in high school, college and university who prepare documents and reports of high quality with content integrated from various office applications as part their normal assignments and work
• Employees in organizations of all types who provide a first or second line of IT support to end-users who use Word Processing applications

who will find the ECDL Advanced qualification valuable and useful for their everyday work.

ECDL Advanced Word Processing is also suitable for those candidates who have completed the ECDL Core Module 3 - Word Processing qualification and wish to prove their skills and competence in the use of computer applications at a higher, proficient level.

What are the Benefits of ECDL Advanced Word Processing (AM3)

Benefits for the candidate:

As a certified ECDL Advanced Word Processing holder you will:

• Be confident, efficient and effective in using the word processing application
• Be able to prove that you have mastery of the application
• Produce and manage large, complex word processing outputs
• Improve your productivity and save time
• Increase your prospects for employment or promotion
• Have an internationally-recognised qualification
  

What are the benefits for Organisations?

Personnel with the ECDL Advanced Word Processing certified skills can:

• Improve productivity and save time
• Demonstrate mastery of the application
• Produce and manage advanced word processing outputs
• Be confident, efficient and effective in using the word processing application
• Illustrate sophisticated typographical, formatting and layout presentations, including tables, forms and graphics
• Carry out more advanced mail merge operations within the word processing application
• Work effectively on large collaborative projects
• Use tools such as macros very effectively

In order to take the test in any ECDL Advanced Module the candidate must have completed successfully the corresponding ECDL Core Module; in this case the ECDL Core Module 3 in Wordprocessing.

There is no other requirement in order to register and achieve the ECDL Advanced Module 3 in Wordprocessing.

The main areas covered in the ECDL Advanced Word Processing (AM3) Syllabus are:

1. Editing: With the ECDL Advanced Word Processing certification you can prove your mastery of many advanced editing tools within word processing applications. This section gives you the skills to use advanced text editing features, paragraph and style options or template formatting and layout options.

This section also covers collaborative editing features which allow you to work as a team on large, complex word processing projects.

2. Layout: Create and modify master documents and sub-documents, table of contents, document sections, multiple column layouts and column breaks.


3. Document Organisation: Create and modify

• bookmarks
• indexes
•  cross-references
• field codes footnotes and endnotes

Other areas to be covered:

• Add and modify password protection to a document.
• Use advanced table features to merge and split cells in a table, convert tabbed text into a table, sort data and perform calculations in a table
• Use advanced form features to create, edit and protect forms
• Insert, edit, format and link text boxes
• Use advanced spreadsheet features to modify an embedded worksheet within a document
• Create and modify a chart from a table or pasted worksheet within a document and position a chart within a document
• Use advanced image/drawing features to create drawings and to manipulate pre-defined shapes or add a watermark to a document
• Use advanced captions features to add captions to images, figures or tables and apply numbered captions to an image, figures or tables

4. Special Tools: Use advanced mail merge features to edit and sort a data source and/or merge documents with a data source using merge criteria. Use macro features to record, run and copy macros and assign a macro to a button on the toolbar.

5. Printing: Use printing features to customise printed outputs.