18 Best Basic Microsoft Word practice exercises for

beginners
1. Create and Design Admission/Enquiry Forms etc.

To create this kind of form, you need to use shapes, text boxes, colors, formatting options, tables,

and horizontal lines in MS word. This is a very good exercise to practice because it will give you the

idea of how to use such options practically on various official documents that we use in our daily

official life.

See a sample in the image below.

2. Create bills/leaflets/brochures. See the sample below.

Everyone contains various designs of bills such as your refrigerator shopping bill, computer bill,

electricity bills, and various other kinds of bills. So you can practice in Microsoft Word to create that

type of bill format. It’s good for the practice in which you will learn the Insert menu option, text

adjustment between the table, page size, text boxes.

3. Design E-book cover pages / Magazine front/ books front/back page using cover page
option in Insert Menu.

This practice is an advance. But try to find the books, magazine cover pages. And try to make it

similar in MS-Word. Imagine if you’re the designer, how you will design the same content or front

page. You will learn while practicing this about the Cover Page option in MS-Word or you can design

without using that option.

4. Create Business Cards using Shapes, text, and colors.

People use Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and websites to create business cards nowadays

automatically and manually. You can also use that. But it’s about mastering MS Word options and

skills. When you create and design anything in Microsoft word. Your basic computer skills become

strong. That helps you in the future when you start working on a Computer or MS-office or MS-Word.

Also, basic computer skills are very important before doing any degree course in IT. So, Design the

business cards similarly you’re seeing in the below sample picture.

This is an advanced exercise, but if you do it and create cards then options you’ve learned during
your computer courses in MS-Word remain forever in your brain.

5. Use smart art and create organization charts

Smart Art is one of the favorite options in Microsoft Word. Smart art is used to draw diagrams that

are used to showcase the content visually that will be easy to understand and manage. Such as

you’re seeing below the smart art image Hierarchy Diagram that is used to create an organizational

chart or structure of the Telecom company.

This is the best method to understand and teach about certain things to students, teachers, parents,

and companies. You will see such organizational charts in the company’s office and government

head offices.
When you practice MS-Word Option to create the following diagram or any other, you got many

problems. Those problems are not there while you were learning MS-Word. These are the problem

such as font size adjustment, lines adjustment, etc. colors and shape adjustment etc.

So, when you solve these problems by yourself or with the help of your computer course instructor it

will be great for your computer knowledge and MS Office skills. Because when you solve the

problem and you learn very important working lessons of MS Word. This is why you’re learning.

6. Make books content page or index page

This is another idea in which you need to create an index or content page of the book. In this

process you will learn about the first-line indent, hanging indent and the perfect use of ruler bar in

Microsoft Word.

And also about a page number, a hyperlink (if it is eBook). You can discuss this article with your

computer teachers, to allow us or provide us with similar things to practice on.

7. Try to create a similar Header & Footer that you’re seeing in the Book

This is the most important option and thousands of students find it difficult to use the header and

footer. It’s easier to learn header and footer one time but if you’re not practicing it in various ways or

the things such as books header and footer, it’s tough for you to explain it to others.

That’s why I am suggesting you try using the different styles of header and footer. And you will get

such an example from the books.

8. Insert Image into the shape

This is a little easy. But it’s important that you know easier things more than difficult things. Because

in interviews especially related to IT, people ask easier questions more than difficult ones.

So, practicing even on small things is also beneficial. You don’t’ know whenever it will be helpful for

you in the future.

So, insert an image into the shape. Take and draw a shape from the Illustration menu, place it on a

page a little higher in size, then double-click on the shape. Go to the shape fill option and click on the

picture. As an example, you can see the following image.

9. Practice hyperlink and create links between word document texts to D: /, Play songs
from Microsoft word text, create the link between internal and external files.

This is the most important option in Microsoft Word. Most of the processes on the internet contain

links. The hyperlink is the starting point in which you learn how things are connected with each other.

Even it’s also a great option for Web Designer or web designing teachers to teach “How website

links works” by using the hyperlink as an example.

As you can see in the image below, I am displaying the connection between the play song text to the

location of the song.

Now you need to select that text in which have written the play song and then insert a hyperlink

(Ctrl+K) and in the hyperlink address, put the path of the song. After that press, the Ctrl button and

click on the blue link, so now any song that you selected will start playing.
10. Design a Happy Birthday Message by using Word Art and print it.

I think it’s the easiest thing for you. You can use the Word Art option for this. You can create the best

wishes message in MS-Word. After that, you can print. And give it to the person. It’s about creating

small things at home. This is also a good way to make kids interested in learning the computer.

Also good for students and kids to create fun things and print or give it as a gift for parents. So, they

will enjoy your creativity.

11. Create a chart and show the product price comparison between years:

Chart option is very important in Microsoft word and excel. But the use of the chart option and any

other option in MS word depends on the demand for a certain content type.
For example, you’re writing a book or making notes about something in which you have to write and

explain the price comparison between 3-4 years. Then you can use the chart for visualizations to

analyze the data.

In visual format or in the chart it’s easier for people to understand, what you mean. And also it gets

more views or focuses than the content.

So, try to create the chart as you’re seeing in the above image.

12. Get the newspaper and see the text-based advertisement and Design that
advertisement in Microsoft Word.

Design and create text or image-based advertisements that you saw in the newspaper. Designing

such an advertisement will be a very beneficial role for Microsoft Word students or people learning

Advanced Microsoft Word skills. Advertisement designs contain high-quality images, text, and

layout. And these designs are created by experts. When students practice expert material and

create similar or better than that.

I think that movement is great for learners and teachers. So, try to create as many as you like. It will

make you master MS word. And I think doing exercise after completing the class topic is the best

way to learn MS Word.

13. Take a double-column book or newspaper and design or create a similar paragraph
style in the word document.

Not all often type or create content in a double column. I know computer teachers can teach you

such options. But they will not able to explain the deepest or professional uses of such options for

certain reasons.

So, I will suggest that you can use the column option and find the newspaper similarly as you’re

seeing below and create or type the text as you’re seeing in the newspaper. And if you’re getting the

problem, ask your teachers. So, when your teachers teach you about how to do that thing or this

thing, it will be great for your knowledge.

14. Create a letterhead, Identity card of any company or institution that you got and insert
the Watermark with that company name in the document.

You can create an identity card, visiting card or birthday card in MS word. As you’re seeing below

this is an example of cards and letterheads. But you can find such things. And practice your MS-

Word knowledge in creating an identity card, letterhead.

This will give you an idea of how to adjust the text in different shapes and areas. Also, this is a good

exercise in which you learn after printing, what size you need to adjust on the page. And when you

do that, you learn very precious things in MS-Word.

15. Decorate a word document with page border, content border, add pattern and write
beautiful text in it.

This is the easiest page layout option, in which you can learn about page borders in MS-Word, text

borders, color or shading in the page and pattern.

These options are very beautiful when you’re creating eBooks, making notes and doing anything that

required the following type of style. See the image below and try to create something similar to this

one.
16. Insert Images and Practice on Format Menu and Image options.

You can use image options and style to decorate, retouch and adjustment of colors and brightness

in ms word. As you’re seeing, I have created various styles and image effects. These are easy to

create.

But to learn more advanced effects later in other professional software, it’s important for you to learn

and practice such things during your basic computer course.

17. Insert template or download the new template in Microsoft Word from the Internet and
edit those templates with your content.

There are 100+ templates almost for anything in the Microsoft Word Template option. The top

benefit of using the template is that if you don’t know how to create or design a certain thing then

you can just download the template and replace the existed text with your text. And it’s done.

This is the most important option which you should learn because it’s tough when you don’t know

how to design or create anything, so try to practice on 10+ templates and see what it will look like.

Related: Uses and features of Microsoft Word.

18. Write 10 lines or 10 sentences and then change the font, style, color, and size of each
sentence. Make each one different from than previous and next.

Fonts are the face of the text. And the following image is displaying various fonts and styles. Just

create similarly. During the practice, you will learn which font will be better for the specific text. Just

write 10 lines and differentiate each one.

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