Looking for an advanced Word course to upskill your staff? BOTI’s Word 2013 Advanced Course is a 1-day, instructor-led programme that takes intermediate users to power-user level — covering mail merge, master documents, styles, macros and document collaboration. Delivered in-house or online across South Africa.

Advanced Word Course at a Glance

What This Advanced Word Course Covers

This course focuses on picture tools, graphics and visual objects alongside advanced formatting techniques. It introduces the updated Word 2013 interface, including the new landing screen and PDF editing capabilities, then moves into the high-value automation and collaboration features your team will use every day.

Course Modules

1. Exploring Text Techniques — hyperlinks, fields, bookmarks and cross-references.
2. Exploring Reference Tools — master documents, footnotes, tables of contents, indexes and bibliographies.
3. Using Mail Merge — Outlook integration, data sources, personalised emails and labels.
4. Word Collaboration — document sharing, co-authoring, comments and change tracking.
5. Working More Efficiently — styles, templates, ribbon customisation and macros.

Who Should Attend This Advanced Word Course

This course is intended for intermediate users of Microsoft Word — people who are comfortable with everyday typing, basic formatting and printing, but who now need to:

• Build and control long, structured documents.
• Automate repetitive document tasks.
• Collaborate on documents across a team.
• Produce branded, consistent business documents at speed.

It is ideal for HR and L&D teams, executive assistants, administrators, finance and operations staff, proposal and bid teams, and report writers who create documents as a core part of their role.

Advanced Microsoft Word for Business Documents

The real return on an advanced Word course shows up in the documents your business produces every week. Most teams already “know Word” — but they rebuild the same layouts by hand, copy-paste mailings one address at a time, and lose hours fixing formatting. This section maps the course skills directly onto the business documents your staff create.

Build Templates That Enforce Your Brand

Using styles and templates, your team can lock in fonts, headings, spacing and colours so every quote, proposal and report looks identical and on-brand. Update one style and the whole document reflows instantly — no more manual reformatting. This is the single biggest time-saver for organisations producing high volumes of client-facing documents.

Automate Long, Structured Documents

For tenders, policy manuals, annual reports and training materials, the course’s reference tools module is key:

• Tables of contents that update with a click.
• Cross-references, bookmarks and hyperlinks that keep large documents navigable.
• Master documents to manage chapters or sections written by different contributors.
• Indexes, footnotes and bibliographies for compliance and professional documents.

Personalise Communications at Scale with Mail Merge

Mail merge turns a single template plus a data source (Excel, Outlook contacts or a database) into hundreds of personalised letters, certificates, statements, labels or emails. For HR onboarding packs, payroll letters, customer statements and event invitations, this converts a full day of manual work into minutes.

Speed Up Repetitive Work with Macros

The macros and ribbon customisation content lets power users record repetitive formatting and insertion tasks once, then replay them with a single button. For teams producing standardised business documents daily, macros remove error-prone manual steps and enforce consistency.

Practical outcome: after this advanced Word course, a delegate should be able to take a raw data list and a brand template and produce a batch of personalised, perfectly formatted business documents — start to finish — without manual rework.

Collaborate Without Version Chaos

The Word Collaboration module addresses a problem every SA business knows: ten emailed versions of the same document. Delegates learn document sharing, co-authoring, comments and change tracking so reviewers can mark up a single source document, see who changed what, and merge feedback cleanly. This is essential for bid teams, legal and HR sign-off workflows, and any document that needs multiple approvers.

In-House and On-Site Advanced Word Training

This course runs off-site or in-house — we train in all major city centres throughout South Africa, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria, plus live online delivery for distributed teams.

Related BOTI Courses

Build a complete Microsoft Office skills path for your team:

• Microsoft Word 2013 Intermediate Course — the ideal feeder course for staff who aren’t yet ready for advanced features.
• Microsoft Excel training courses — pair advanced Word (mail merge) with Excel data sources for end-to-end document automation.
• Microsoft PowerPoint training courses — round out your team’s presentation and document skills.
• Browse all BOTI courses and book — 450 accredited and skills-based courses for SA business.

Need this for a team? Request a quote or a 15-minute callback and we’ll structure in-house Word training around your real business documents.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an advanced Word course?

An advanced Word course takes intermediate users beyond everyday formatting into power-user features: master documents, mail merge, styles and templates, macros, reference tools (tables of contents, indexes, cross-references) and document collaboration. BOTI’s Word 2013 Advanced Course is a 1-day, instructor-led programme covering all of these.

Who should attend the advanced Word course?

It is intended for intermediate users of Microsoft Word — administrators, executive assistants, HR and L&D teams, finance and operations staff, and anyone who produces structured business documents and needs to do so faster and more consistently.

How long is the advanced Word course and what does it cost?

Is this advanced Word course accredited?

Yes. This advanced Word training falls under BOTI’s accredited IT End User Computing offering through the Services SETA / MICT SETA. These unit-standard qualifications are migrating to the new QCTO system — accredited enrolment is available now, so please confirm current accreditation when you book. BOTI is an accredited training provider — Services SETA 12582, MICT SETA ACC/2016/07/0045, and a QCTO Quality Partner.

Can you deliver the advanced Word course in-house or online?

Yes. BOTI delivers this course off-site or in-house in all major South African city centres — Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and Pretoria — as well as live online for remote and distributed teams.

Ready to Upskill Your Team?

Give your staff the skills to produce professional, automated business documents in a single day.

Request a quote or a free 15-minute callback to plan your advanced Word training. Call 011-882-8853 or enquire online at boti.co.za. Download our free Microsoft Office Skills Audit checklist to map exactly which staff need foundation, intermediate or advanced training before you book — and ask about bundling Word with Excel for full document-automation skills.