Microsoft Office Word 2013: Basic

Identify the components of the Word interface, create your first Word document, and explore the Help system to start using Word effectively.

Identify the components of the Word 2013 interface, including the ribbon, backstage view, clipboard tasks pane, quick styles gallery, print layout view, the last location bookmark, and the view tab.

Explore the Word 2013 landing page to open recent files, start a blank document, or choose from templates, including online template search.

Design a Word document in Microsoft Word to create newsletters, letters, faxes, and reports, embedding text, graphics, tables, bulleted lists, charts, and other objects, as a powerful communication tool.

Explore the Word application window, including the quick access toolbar, title bar, window controls, ribbon, document area, scroll bars, and status bar for page numbers, word count, and zoom.

The ribbon organizes Word commands into tabs such as home, insert, and page layout, with groups like paragraph, styles, and editing; the File tab opens the backstage view.

Navigate to the backstage view by clicking the File tab to access basic file management tasks like creating, printing, saving, closing documents, and customize Word options.

Explore the clipboard task pane in Word 2013, a resizable, movable panel that stays open for quick clipboard access, opened from the ribbon or from other task panes.

Discover the quick styles gallery in Microsoft Word, a collection of preset styles you can select to change your document's appearance by using the down arrow next to the ribbon.

Explore print layout view in Word 2013 to see margins and document layout, and switch to other views via the View tab or lower-right corner.

Discover how the last location bookmark in Microsoft Word 2013 returns you to your previous spot in a long document, saving you from scrolling and re-finding your place.

Explore the view tab in Word 2013 to arrange multiple windows, view documents side by side, switch between documents, and control synchronized or split scrolling and zoom.

Launch Microsoft Word 2013 and navigate the Quick Access Toolbar, tabs and ribbon, dialog box launchers, task pane, styles gallery, and backstage area to save, print, or close.

Open an existing file called Bit by bit fitness and demonstrate switching between print layout, read mode, web layout, outline, and draft views.

Learn how to use Word's window features by splitting a document into two, viewing side by side with synchronous scrolling, arranging multiple documents, and managing windows.

Learn to use the zoom control in Word by pressing the plus and minus signs or dragging the slider to adjust the document view, and set the zoom to 100.

Create your first Word document and learn how to use the print window, building foundational skills for basic document creation in Word 2013.

Open the print window to preview your document, adjust copies and printer settings, and select all pages or a specific page range for printing.

Create a new blank document from the backstage File menu, turn on paragraph marks to view non-printing characters, and use auto correct options to adjust text.

Save a Word document using the backstage area in the getting started folder. Name it my welcome letter with spaces in the file name, and close the document.

Preview the two-page file Bit by bit fitness draft, then print by selecting pages, copies, paper size, and orientation, and click print to send to the printer.

Explore the Word Help system and examine the Microsoft Word Help window. Learn how to access help in Word 2013.

Access the Word help window via the question mark icon or a keyboard shortcut, search topics like charts, view popular queries, and open videos and articles from the bottom links.

Explore how to use Word's help system, search topics such as printing and watermarks, and access keyboard shortcuts and training resources.

Identify the components of the Word interface, create a Word document, and explore the Help system.

Master essential document editing in Microsoft Office Word 2013 by learning to find and select text, modify text, and use find and replace to efficiently revise documents.

Learn to find and select text in Word 2013 using shortcuts and the selection bar: double-click a word, single click a line, double-click a paragraph, and triple-click the document.

Learn to navigate and select text in Word 2013 using save as, control home, control end, page up/down, and double or triple clicks, with the selection bar and mini toolbar.

Modify text in Microsoft Word 2013 using live preview and essential editing commands. Demonstrate undo and redo to manage edits efficiently.

Explore Word's live preview feature by dragging across galleries to see, in real time, how your text will change before you apply a selection.

Demonstrates copying a line to the clipboard, pasting at the top using the paste shortcut, and removing the extra paragraph marker before saving changes.

Microsoft Word tracks your actions behind the scenes, letting you undo the last step with the undo button or the Ctrl+Z shortcut.

Learn how to redo or repeat your last step in Microsoft Word 2013, including using the redo button or keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Y to reapply a pasted item after undo.

Master deleting text and toggling between undo and redo to manage edits in a Word document. Use the Quick Access Toolbar for quick undo and redo.

Learn to find and replace text in Word 2013 using the navigation pane, the find and replace dialog box, and available find options.

Open the navigation pane from the home tab, type a word to highlight its instances, and browse results by headings, pages, or results with advanced find or go-to options.

Use the find tab in the find and replace dialog box to locate a word, then press find next to jump to each occurrence from the current cursor position.

Explore word find options in Word 2013 by opening Find and Replace, clicking More to access match case and format options, then search for bolded Boston.

Demonstrates using find and replace in microsoft office word 2013, accessing the navigation pane from the home tab to locate and replace all occurrences efficiently.

Master editing in Word 2013 by finding and selecting text, modifying text, and using the find and replace feature to streamline document edits.

Learn to format text and paragraphs in Word 2013 by applying character formatting, aligning with tabs, creating lists, controlling paragraph layout, and applying borders, shading, and styles.

Apply character formatting by exploring fonts, using the mini toolbar, and employing the format painter to adjust text in Word 2013.

Explore the fonts group in the home tab, learn how to apply font styles, sizes, and effects like bold and underline, and understand choosing fonts for print vs web.

Select text in Word 2013 to reveal the mini toolbar next to the selected text. Use the mini toolbar to apply bold, italic, or font changes without using the ribbon.

Learn to copy formatting with the format painter, applying bold, color, and underline across text. Double-click keeps the tool active to paint formatting on multiple selections from the home tab.

Demonstrates character level formatting in Word 2013 using live preview to apply Times New Roman 12, enlarge to 18, apply italics and blue color, capitalize words, then save.

Demonstrate highlighting text in Microsoft Word 2013 by selecting a line, choosing the text highlight color, previewing colors live, and turning highlight off.

Learn to use the format painter from the home tab clipboard area to apply formatting from the story to headings, with double-click to keep painting until finished, then save.

Learn how to align text using tabs, set tab stops, and navigate the tabs dialog box to control alignment in Word 2013.

Learn to display the ruler in Word, set and adjust tab stops on the ruler, and use left and right aligned tabs to control text alignment with tabs.

Open the tabs dialog box from a tab stop to add and customize tabs by location and alignment, and apply dot leaders to guide text to each tab stop.

Learn to create neat tabbed lists in Word 2013 by using the ruler to set tab stops at 3, 4, and 5 inches, including right-aligned tabs.

Learn to display text as list items in Word 2013 by creating and formatting bullet and numbered lists.

Learn to create bulleted and numbered lists in Word 2013, customize bullets with stars or images, and use ordinal numbers, roman numerals, or alphabet styles for ordered items.

Demonstrates creating and editing a bulleted list in Word 2013: select text, apply bullets from the home tab, add bullets with enter, and remove bullets by turning them off.

Demonstrate how to add numbering to a document by selecting items and clicking the number button in the Home tab's paragraph group; each paragraph becomes numbered.

Learn to control paragraph layout in Microsoft Word 2013 by indenting paragraphs and adjusting spacing for cleaner, more readable documents.

Learn to set paragraph indents in Microsoft Word 2013 using the Home tab and ruler. Drag the indent triangles to adjust first-line and hanging indents precisely.

Center headings across the document by selecting each heading with the control key and applying center alignment from the home paragraph group, demonstrating how to set paragraph alignment efficiently.

Practice setting indents in Word 2013 by selecting paragraphs, using the home ribbon and ruler to adjust first-line, hanging, and whole-paragraph indents, including numbers and bullets.

Select all text, set line spacing to 1.15, and apply before or after paragraph spacing to the selected text in Word 2013.

Explore how hyphenation in Word reduces jagged margins by fitting more text per line, using automatic and manual options, and weighing readability versus dashed line breaks.

Apply borders and shading in Word 2013, focusing on page versus paragraph borders. Learn how to apply shading to border text and use the Borders and Shading dialog box.

Explore how to apply and customize borders in Microsoft Word 2013, including page borders and paragraph borders around selected text, with options for color, thickness, and patterns.

Apply shading to text with borders to customize density, pattern, and color. Shading is as flexible as borders for formatting.

Learn to use the borders and shading dialog box in Word 2013. Apply borders with box or dashed styles, and adjust shading color and density from the same dialog.

Select the numbered list, apply a thick border (0.75 pt) and light blue shading to the paragraphs, creating a visual box and avoiding page breaks.

Learn how to apply styles to text, explore the quick styles gallery, and understand the styles task pane.

Apply word styles to text with a single click to ensure consistent formatting across your document, using built-in or custom styles that cover font, color, effects, and paragraph settings.

Explore the quick styles gallery to apply chosen styles to your current document, preview live changes on highlighted text, create your own style, clear formatting, and apply multiple styles.

Navigate the Home tab's styles group to launch the styles task pane and manage, preview, and modify document styles from the right-hand panel.

Discover how to apply built-in Word styles, like Heading 1 and intense quote style, via the Home styles gallery and styles pane to quickly format a document.

Master formatting management in Microsoft Word 2013 by learning how to use reveal formatting to fine-tune document appearance.

Explore how to reveal the formatting task pane in Word 2013 to identify fonts, alignments, margins and layouts, compare formatting between sections, and apply or clear formatting.

Reveal and inspect formatting in Word 2013 using the reveal formatting pane, the style inspector, and the dialog box picker. Toggle with Shift+F1 to view font, character, and paragraph styles.

Use the find and replace feature in Word 2013 to locate formatting and replace it. Replace italicized text with double underlining, applying mass formatting changes across the document.

Learn how to apply character formatting, align text with tabs, display list items, and control paragraph layout with borders and shading. Explore styles and how to manage your formatting.

Insert a table, modify a table format, and convert text to a table in Word 2013. Learn to add tables and format them for basic documents.

Learn how to insert a table and organize data efficiently in Word 2013, and explore the quick tables gallery for rapid table creation.

Insert a table from the insert tab to organize text into columns and rows, enter data in cells, and format with shading and headers to match your document.

Explore the quick tables gallery on the insert tab to insert pre-formatted tables with sample data, replace placeholders, and tailor fonts and delimiters for calendars, double tables, or subheaded tables.

Learn how to insert and format a table in Microsoft Word 2013, choosing an eight by four layout, entering schedule data, and navigating with tab and arrow keys.

Modify a table in Word by using the Table Tools Layout contextual tab and the Table Properties dialog box to adjust table formatting and layout.

Explore the table tools layout tab in Word 2013, performing operations like inserting rows, deleting columns, merging and splitting cells, and adjusting text alignment and direction.

Open the table properties dialog box to adjust the whole table, a row, a column, or a cell, center the table, and set text wrapping to flow around it.

Learn to modify a Word 2013 table by deleting rows, inserting columns to the left or right, adding rows, and resizing column widths.

Learn to move and resize table columns in Word 2013 basic using insert, cut and paste, drag and drop, and the ruler to adjust widths and heights.

Learn how to format a table in Microsoft Word 2013, guided by the table tools design tab to apply formatting options effectively.

Use the table tools design tab to adjust the look and feel of a table. Add shading, borders, and styles from the gallery, with live previews via the More button.

Apply built-in table styles and adjust banded rows or columns, header row, and first column. Modify borders and shading with color, custom borders, and cell-specific changes.

Learn how to convert text to a table in Microsoft Word 2013, and navigate the convert text to table and convert table to text dialog boxes.

Learn to convert a tabbed list into a table in Word 2013 by choosing columns and rows, specifying the data separator (tabs), and applying borders and shading.

Learn how to convert a Word table into text using the convert table to text dialog box, choosing a separator to create a tab list from the selected table.

Learn to convert tabbed lists to tables and back in Microsoft Office Word 2013, using convert to table and convert to text, with tab stops and separator options.

Learn to insert, modify, and format a table in Word 2013, and convert text into a table for straightforward document layouts.

Sort, renumber, and customize lists in Microsoft Word 2013. Learn practical list management techniques for basic word processing to improve document clarity and organization.

Sort a list in Microsoft Word by a designated field, such as the state column, and learn to sort by more than one field to organize names, cities, and states.

Sort a Word list by state, city, then zip code using the sort dialog with a header row, applying multi-level sorting to a tabbed list.

Renumber a list in Microsoft Word 2013 to start at a chosen number and split or configure numbering for flexible formatting.

Learn to renumber lists in Microsoft Word 2013, including adding items, creating subitems with shift enter, turning numbering off, and setting continue or starting values for precise numbering.

Explore how to customize a list in Word 2013, understand what a multilevel list is, and learn to use the multilevel list gallery.

Learn to create multilevel lists by indenting items and applying different styles, such as numbers, letters, and roman numerals, in Microsoft Word 2013.

Explore Word's multilevel list gallery to apply predefined styles with a live preview as you highlight and switch styles. Learn how to customize and create your own multilevel list styles.

Learn to convert a plain list into a multilevel outline in Word 2013 by selecting items and indenting to level 2, 3, or 4 using tab or change list level.

Demonstrates customizing a multilevel list in Word 2013 by converting numbers to bullets, selecting the fourth level, and creating a custom bullet symbol using define new bullet and symbol.

Develop skills in managing lists by sorting, reading numbers, and customizing our list in microsoft office word 2013 basic.

Learn how to insert symbols and special characters and add images as graphic objects to your document in Word 2013 basic.

Learn how to insert symbols and special characters in Microsoft Word 2013 Basic, and discover Wingdings.

Explore how symbols in Microsoft Word clarify meaning by using the symbols dialog box under the Insert tab to insert symbols like copyright, registered, and trademark, and browse symbol sets.

Choose from Wingdings symbol sets in the symbol box to insert graphical symbols—smiley faces, ink pens, mice, and more, with Wingdings, Wingdings 2, and Wingdings 3.

Master inserting symbols and the registered symbol in Word 2013 using the insert symbols tool, locating occurrences with the navigation pane, and applying superscript via the font dialog box.

Add images to your Word document using clip art and the picture tools contextual tab.

Insert clip art to add graphics to your Word document, including clip art pictures, charts, graphs, and SmartArt, with thousands of Office.com options.

Insert a picture with the insert tab, select it to access the picture tools format tab, and crop, remove background, adjust color correcting, border, effects, position, and wrap text.

Insert a picture from a file into a Word document, move and resize it, use position options to align it to the right; add fitness images from Clipper at end.

Learn to insert graphic objects in Word 2013. Discover how to add symbols, special characters, and images to your document.

Learn to control page appearance in Word 2013 by applying page borders and colors, adding watermarks, inserting headers and footers, and adjusting the page layout.

Learn to apply a page border and change its color by exploring the page border tab in Word 2013.

Access the page border tab in Borders and Shading, set style, width, color, and optional artwork, with a live preview; click OK to apply the page border.

Apply a page border to a Word 2013 document via the Design tab, Borders and Shading, choosing a red dotted or dashed style for the whole document.

Define a watermark, explain how to add one, and explore the printed watermark dialog box.

Add a watermark in Word 2013—a fairly transparent graphic behind your document—to indicate draft or confidential status, using a logo or image kept light so it doesn’t obscure the text.

Select a watermark in the printed watermark dialog box, either a picture from your computer or text. Adjust font, size, color, and layout, with diagonal or horizontal orientation.

Demonstrates adding a text watermark in Word 2013 via the design tab, choosing custom watermark, selecting draft, adjusting font and color, then applying and previewing for print.

Learn how to add headers and footers, define them, and use the header and footer tools contextual tab to customize page layouts in Word 2013.

Insert headers and footers to display page numbers, web address, company name, and current date at the top and bottom of every page, with flexible suppression by page or chapter.

Explore the header and footer tools design tab to insert dynamic fields like current date and page numbers, and set different headers for first or odd/even pages.

Insert headers and footers in a Word 2013 document using built-in styles. Create a three-column footer with content review, date and time, and page numbers; close and check print preview.

Modify headers and footers in Word 2013 by changing the page number style to letters such as ABC News, italicizing header text, enabling first page options, and preview the layout.

Learn to control page layout by choosing portrait or landscape orientation, inserting manual page breaks, and analyzing the page setup dialog box.

Compare portrait and landscape orientations to control page data capacity and print layout, including binding options and flip book setups that may require landscape printing.

Learn to control document flow in Word 2013 by inserting manual page breaks to force content onto the next page, overriding the automatic page-break behavior.

Explore how the page setup dialog box in Microsoft Word 2013 controls portrait and landscape orientation, margins, and gutter for binding to optimize document layout.

Explore how to modify margins, apply custom margins, insert page breaks to start sections on new pages, and center content vertically using Word 2013's page layout and page setup options.

Apply page borders and colors, insert a watermark, and manage headers and footers to control overall page layout in Word 2013 basics.

Learn to spell check and grammar check your document, and explore additional proofing tools in Microsoft Office Word 2013: Basic.

Learn how to check spelling and grammar in Word 2013, using the spelling pane, grammar pane, readability statistics, and the word count dialog box.

Open the spelling pane from the Review tab to run spell check and address misspelled words. Learn to select corrections, ignore issues, or add terms to the dictionary for documents.

Word's grammar check under the Review tab proofing identifies errors such as run-on sentences and comma splices, offers solutions, and lets you change or ignore.

Explore how readability statistics in Word measure document complexity using the Flesch reading algorithms. Adjust writing to target grade levels, like fifth grade, by simplifying words and shortening sentences.

Use the word count dialog box in Microsoft Word to display pages and word totals, helping you meet assignment limits like a thousand-word report.

Learn how to enable readability statistics in Microsoft Word 2013 by adjusting the options under proofing, so readability data appears after spelling and grammar checks.

Learn to enable spelling and grammar checks in Microsoft Office Word 2013, customize dictionaries, and grammar and style settings to flag sentence fragments and subject-verb agreement, and review readability statistics.

Explore other proofing tools in Word 2013, including the research task pane, translating selected text, and research options.

Discover how the thesaurus in Microsoft Word 2013 provides synonyms and antonyms, lets you replace words like 'friendly' with 'sociable', and shows the dictionary source.

Demonstrates using the thesaurus in Word 2013 by right-clicking a word, selecting synonyms, and replacing terms like sociable with friendly and improve with increase.

Explore the research task pane in Microsoft Word 2013: translate, look up in a dictionary, and search the web across research sites to analyze your text.

Learn to translate selected text in Word 2013 into different languages and use the research task pane to browse web sources without leaving the document.

Learn to use Word's translate feature from the review tab, via the research pane, to translate selected text from English to French and view results.

Enable and customize the research options dialog box in Word 2013 by adding reference services, such as a United Kingdom thesaurus, and removing unused sources, including a source from France.

Learn to use Word 2013's accessibility checker to identify issues, add alt text to images for screen readers, and address tables with header rows to improve document accessibility.

Practice proofing a document by spell check, grammar check, and other proofing tools to improve accuracy and writing clarity in Microsoft Word 2013.

Learn to customize the Word interface and adjust additional save options to tailor the Word environment.

Customize the Word interface by exploring the Word Options dialog box. Examine the auto correct dialog box to adjust automatic text corrections.

Explore the Word options dialog box in Word 2013, where you customize settings by category, enable or disable features like the mini toolbar, and adjust save options.

Explore how auto correct automatically fixes common errors, such as day name capitalization and double capitals, and customize or disable it in the auto correct options.

Customize the quick access toolbar in Word by opening File options, selecting the quick access toolbar, and adding or removing commands such as open.

Learn to customize Word ribbon by creating a tab called my favorites, adding groups like editing and stuff I like, and adding commands such as copy, cut, and Auto fit.

Learn to customize auto correct in Word by adding a replacement in file options, proofing, autocorrect options; see bbf expand to bit by bit fitness and save typing time.

Explore additional save options in Microsoft Word and learn about other file formats you can save your document in.

Word 2013 saves documents in the default Word document format (.docx). Save in older formats like .doc, macro-enabled .docm, or for web viewing as PDF, among other options.

Learn to save a Word document as a different file type with Save As, choosing PTF and optimizing for online or print, then view the PTF in a reader.

Use the compatibility checker in Word 2013 to view conflicts, selecting versions, and noting alignment tabs converting to traditional tabs in older Word versions.

Learn how to modify autosave options in Microsoft Office Word 2013 by adjusting the auto recover interval from 10 minutes to every minute for important documents.

Learn how to recover an unsaved Word document using auto recovery and versions, then adjust the auto recovery interval from one minute to ten minutes.

Customize the Word environment by adjusting the interface and exploring additional save options to enhance efficiency in Microsoft Word 2013.

Learn to get started with Microsoft Word 2013, edit documents, format paragraphs, add tables, manage lists, insert graphic objects, and proof and customize the Word environment.