What you'll learn
- Understand the benefits of creating templates
- Identify the principles of good document design and how to apply them to your theme
- Use headers and footers
- Add visual elements to your template like a logo, lines, and text boxes
- Insert sections to apply different page formatting to different parts of your template
- Save your template, use it to create documents, and modify it when changes are needed
Requirements
- Access to Microsoft Word is recommended
Description
Don’t re-create documents over and over! Learn about templates in Word to increase your productivity, save time, and create consistency.
Did you forget to change the footer style? Leave out the company phone number? Insert the correct logo? Wouldn’t it be great if all the needed elements and styles were already placed for you in specific documents? Stop having to think so much and redo your work by creating templates!
Creating documents that have a uniform look and adhere to company standards can be challenging and time consuming. Use the templates feature in Word to do this effortlessly. Learn basics about effective design and using headings, sections, and your company’s logo, fonts, and colors to produce professional and effective documents that will stand out!
If you want to save time by learning about this simple tool you might have missed—this course is for you.
Who this course is for:
- Business professionals in management and administrative positions who need to create business documents for print and web using Word 2019 or Word 365.
Course content
- Preview01:41
- 02:03Design Principles
- 04:59Themes
- 06:33Headings
- 04:01Headers and Footers
- 3 questionsKnowledge Check
Instructor
![Chip Reaves](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Bigger Brains Founder and President Chip Reaves is a serial entrepreneur who has started five successful companies. An Atlanta native, Chip began fixing computers for small businesses in the 1980's while studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. After 10 years building a successful IT Service Practice in Atlanta, Chip founded the Computer Troubleshooters franchise system alongside Wilson & Suzanne McOrist, which became the world's largest computer service franchise and received multiple awards from Entrepreneur Magazine, Franchise Business Review, and AllBusiness.
Chip has been interviewed on TV and other major media on topics related to small business technology and entrepreneurship, including ABC News, BusinessWeek TV, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, and is a member of Jim Blasingame's "Brain Trust" on SmallBusinessAdvocate. In 2010 Chip was listed among the Top 150 most influential people in small business IT by SMB PC magazine.
Chip lives with his wife Maren and step-daughter Meg in Anderson, South Carolina where they also co-own a Computer Troubleshooters franchise location. In his spare time Chip is very active with his church and local charities, and consults with two aid organizations serving Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa.