Mastering Word 2019 - Intermediate

Name: Mastering Word 2019 - Intermediate
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Learn intermediate skills of Microsoft Word 2019 or Word 365—delivered in easily searchable, highly informative content

Created byBigger Brains

Last updated 2/2025

English

What you'll learn

Work with tables and charts including sorting, calculations, and referencing data in an Excel workbook.
Maintain consistent formatting in your documents with text, list, and table styles and document themes, and apply advanced font features and text effects.
Insert reusable content (building blocks) from the Quick Parts menu including AutoText, Fields, and Document Properties.
Save time with built-in templates and create your own custom templates.
Control paragraph flow with paragraph options, section breaks, and columns.
Help your readers locate information with reference listings including indexes, table of contents, table of figures, and table of authorities.
Organize long documents with an outline or a master document.
Reduce the time it takes to personalize a set of documents or create labels or envelopes by creating a mail merge.

Course content

7 sections • 32 lectures • 2h 39m total length

Introduction1:44
Introducing Word 2019's core features for business documents, including tables, charts, sorting data, calculations, styles, themes, templates, quick parts, and section breaks, outlines, and mail merge.
Sorting Table Data3:41
Controlling Cell Layout5:34
Master controlling cell layout in Word 2019 intermediate by inserting and merging table rows, adjusting alignment and text direction, and balancing white space for a polished, readable design.
Performing Table Calculations7:16
Learn to perform table calculations in Word 2019 by using formulas in tables, including left-referenced sums, 10% markup, and how to insert, recalculate, and copy formulas.
Creating Charts6:21
Create and customize charts in Word using the built-in chart tool that embeds an Excel window, manage data series, add data labels, and adjust layout and wrapping.
Adding an Excel Table4:31
Learn how to insert an Excel table into Word, choose paste options like keep source formatting or link, and refresh linked data with F9 after saving the Excel file.
Knowledge Check

Creating Text Styles6:55
Applying Text Effects2:52
Apply text effects in Word using font dialog advanced options to adjust character spacing, kerning, and scale, then enhance with text fill and shadows for a more professional look.
Customizing List Styles2:39
Define and apply a multilevel list style in Word 2019, naming it and customizing first and second levels with symbols or Creative Commons images, saved for this document or templates.
Customizing Table Styles2:48
Learn to customize Word 2019 table styles by creating a 'store locations' style, applying header and even banded row colors, and saving it to the custom styles gallery for consistency.
Applying Document Themes2:20
See how document themes extend styles and carry across Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Choose themes in the design tab to apply colors, fonts, and page background options.
Customizing a Document Theme3:35
Knowledge Check

Using Templates3:36
Explore how templates in Word 2019 use Backstage View to auto-format letters, brochures, and calendars, with placeholders you fill, and how to customize colors and design themes for your document.
Creating Templates5:09
Create and save a Word layout as a template with placeholders and a macro button field, and include a header date that updates automatically.
Managing Custom Templates4:25
Knowledge Check

Controlling Paragraph Flow4:39
Inserting Section Breaks8:12
Inserting Columns5:17
Learn how to insert and customize columns in Word 2019 intermediate, including three-column layouts, equal widths, column breaks, and applying changes to selected sections.
Linking Text Boxes5:13
Learn to create and link text boxes in Word 2019 intermediate, import text from files, and flow content across boxes with continued on page five.
Knowledge Check

Inserting Blank and Cover Pages3:11
Insert and customize cover pages in Word 2019, using the cover page gallery (Filigree or Whisp), edit fields like title, subtitle, and date, and add a blank page.
Inserting an Index6:14
Inserting a Table of Contents6:31
Learn to insert and customize a table of contents in Word 2019, using heading styles, page breaks, update fields, and right-aligned page numbers with level formatting.
Inserting a Table of Figures4:09
Inserting a Table of Authorities4:40
Creating an Outline5:27
Explore creating and managing outlines in Word 2019 using Outline View, promote and demote topics, apply heading styles, and collapse or expand sections for long documents.
Creating a Master Document3:32
Create and manage a master document by linking subdocuments in outline view, enabling automatic updates and consolidated formatting across multiple files.
Knowledge Check

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Word 2019 or Word 365

Description

Go beyond the basics and learn intermediate skills using Microsoft’s word processing software—delivered in easy-to-follow, highly informative lessons.

Microsoft Word is hands-down the most powerful document creation tool on the planet. While used by millions of people daily, there are few who know how to maximize Word’s functions and features. In this comprehensive course taught by Microsoft Certified Trainer Barbara Evers, we’ll help build on your basic skills in Word so you can create more professional and effective documents.

Topics covered include:

Working with tables and charts including performing calculations and linking to data in an Excel workbook
Creating Text and Table Styles
Applying document Themes
Inserting building blocks (Quick Parts)
Using and creating templates
Inserting section breaks, columns, and linked text boxes
Creating an Index, Table of Contents, and Table of Figures
Organizing long documents with an Outline or Master Document
Creating a Mail Merge

Quickly search and find the skills you want to master from our comprehensive list of 32 lessons – then just point, click, and learn.

Enjoy over two and a half hours of high-quality HD content in the “Uniquely Engaging”TM Bigger Brains Teacher-Learner style!

Lessons: 32

Seat Time: 2 hours, 40 minutes

Versions Available: SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, AICC, xAPI, MP4, reseller HTML

Teacher: Barbara Evers

Learner: Logan Gray

Produced by: Bigger Brains

Who this course is for:

Business professionals in management and administrative positions as well as positions requiring documentation of job-related information using Word 2019 or Word 365

Mastering Word 2019 - Intermediate

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Course content

Using Tables and Charts6 lectures • 29min

Using Styles and Themes6 lectures • 21min

Inserting Content Using Quick Parts3 lectures • 19min

Using Templates3 lectures • 13min

Controlling Paragraph Flow4 lectures • 23min

Managing Long Documents7 lectures • 34min

Using Mail Merge3 lectures • 20min

Requirements

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