ICDL Documents (ICDL) study guide
ICDL Documents · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
ICDL Documents is the word-processing module within the ICDL certification family, a global digital-skills programme that ICDL Foundation describes as being available in more than 100 countries through a network of over 20,000 testing centres. The module certifies that a candidate can create, format, lay out, and output documents using a word-processing application at a level expected in study and in the workplace. The ICDL Documents study guide has 4 sections and about 1,382 words.
01Word Processing Essentials
Word Processing Essentials covers the mechanics of creating, editing, saving and navigating a document. You should be comfortable with the vocabulary of the interface: insertion point, cursor, selection, ribbon/toolbar, status bar, and the difference between a document window and an application window.
352 words, about 2 min02Document Formatting
Document Formatting focuses on character and paragraph appearance: font, size, bold/italic/underline, colour, highlighting, and case changes, plus paragraph-level controls such as alignment, indentation, line spacing, and space before/after. You must distinguish direct formatting (applied to selected text) from styles (named sets of formatting applied to a paragraph or character).
331 words, about 2 min03Document Layout and Objects
This domain covers page setup and inserted objects: margins, orientation, paper size, page breaks versus section breaks, headers and footers, page numbering, and the insertion and positioning of tables, images, shapes and text boxes. You should understand that a section break allows different page setup (orientation, margins, headers) within one document, whereas a page break only pushes content to the next page without changing layout settings.
341 words, about 2 min04Document Output and Collaboration
This domain covers preparing a document for output and working with others: print preview and print settings, exporting to PDF, spell and grammar checking, word count, track changes, comments, and document properties. You should understand what print options control - page range, number of copies, orientation inherited from page setup, and what 'print current page' means versus 'print selection'.
358 words, about 2 min