Microsoft Office Word 2016: Part 3 (Advanced)

Another way to make information stand out or to separate one section of information from another is to use WordArt, which enables you to apply dramatic special effects to text. (WordArt, Text Effects, Drop Caps)

You can add shapes to a document to make information stand out, add an arrow to direct attention to important information, or create a row of graphics to separate sections of a document. (Shapes in Word, Types of Shapes, The Drawing Canvas)

Learn enables you to illustrate things such as a process, hierarchy, cycle, or the relationship between items in the illustration.

Word includes complex graphic objects that are composed of multiple shapes with connections between them. The advantage? Resizing the object resizes all of the components, maintaining the relationship between them! (SmartArt Graphics, The Choose a SmartArt Graphic Dialog Box, SmartArt Graphic Categories, The SmartArt Contextual Tab)

You've created a document, and you want to solicit feedback and revisions from your colleagues. Learn how to share a document. (Document Sharing, Real-Time Collaboration, Multiple Versions of the Same Document, User Information, The Backstage Info Page))

You've created a document, and you want to solicit feedback and revisions from your colleagues. Learn how to share a document. (Document Versioning, Check Out, Check In, Author, Document Properties, Advanced Document Search Features)

It's difficult to see where changes have been made by simply viewing a document. If you worked on a document months or even weeks ago, you might not remember where you modified the text. (Track Changes, Turn Track Changes On and Off, Track Changes Options,The Track Changes Indicator, Add Comments)

One way to show where any changes have been made to the document is by using the Track Changes feature. (Comments, Markup Views, Accept or Reject Changes, Multiple Reviewers)

Learn how to quickly identify all of the changes between two or more versions of the same document.

While Word's Track Changes feature provides a great way to collaborate on document revisions, unfortunately not everyone thinks to use it, or they might not know how to use it. If someone just makes changes to a copy of your document without tracking the changes, you can still easily identify what they've changed if you still have your original document. (Legal Blackline, Comparison Settings, Original and Revised Documents, Revisions Pane)

Microsoft Word enables you to automatically number captions for figures, tables, or equations that update as items are added or deleted. (Caption Dialog Box,)

If you are writing a document, you may want to include cross-references from one part to another, to avoid having to manually update pagination, headings or figure numbers. Since Word inserts cross-references as hyperlinks, you can also use them to jump to the target. (Cross–reference Dialog Box, Shading Cross-References, Cross-Reference Updates)

With Word’s bookmark feature, you can mark specific locations and chunks of text within a document. Once marked, you can use cross-referencing to create a link to the bookmark location or insert the bookmark text. (Bookmark Dialog Box, Bookmark Formatting Marks, Hidden Bookmarks)

You may need the reader of your document to navigate to related content both within and outside of the document. You can do this by including hyperlinks in your document. (Hyperlinks, Insert Hyperlink Dialog Box, Options in the Link to Panel, Edit Hyperlink Dialog Box)

When you need to reuse or reference ideas from other authors, you insert footnotes and endnotes. These references cite or refer to the author of any borrowed content, as well as provide additional information for the reader. (Footnotes and Endnotes, The Footnote and Endnote Dialog Box, Placement, Reference Mark Navigation)

In your document, you might need to refer to information or a quotation from another source to lend authority to your work. The credibility of your document is dependent on the references that you provide. (Sources, The Create Source Dialog Box, The Edit Source Dialog Box, The Source Manager Dialog Box, Citations, Citation Styles, The Edit Citation Dialog Box)

In this lesson, you will learn how to suppress information, set formatting and editing restrictions and restrict document access.

Before you share or distribute documents, you need to consider how to restrict access to the content and remove confidential information from a document. (Suppress Sensitive Information, Hidden Text, Remove Personal Information from a Document, The Document Inspector Dialog Box, Tracked Changes Security Issues)

To preserve the authenticity of your document, you will need to prevent others from changing and formatting its contents. Word enables you to specify formatting and editing restrictions for a given document. (The Developer Tab, The Restrict Editing Task Pane, Editing Restrictions, Protected View, Mark as Final)

There is always a chance that documents with sensitive information can be sent to unauthorized users. You can protect yourself and the document information from this mistake by passwordprotecting your document. (Document Password, Change or Delete Document Password,)

A security concern is verifying the source of a document and checking whether it contains the original contents. If a document is electronically signed, then it is a valid document.

Word locks documents that are digitally signed, and any attempt to tamper with the documents will make the signature invalid. (Digital Certificates, Digital Signature, The Signature Line, The Signatures Task Pane, Requested Signatures, Valid Signatures)

Learn how to create a form that prompts the user to fill in the various fields to gather a consistent set of data. (Forms, Plan a Form, Form Fields, The Controls Group, Content Controls, Design Mode, Legacy Tools, Form Fields, Form Field Options, Form Protection, Modify Forms)

Sometimes, you may find that they need to perform a certain combination of commands over and over again. You can create a macro to automatically perform these tasks your you. (Macros, The Macros Dialog Box)

You can create a macro but can also obtain Word macros from a variety of sources.

Because malware can be implemented through macros, you should always consider cybersecurity. (Sources of free macros)

Learn how to create a macro.

In this topic, you will create your own macro. Creating macros will help you more quickly perform repetitive, lengthy tasks with a single click or by pressing the keys for a keyboard shortcut. (The Developer Tab for Macros, VBA, Macro Project Components)

Word's macro recorder enables you to perform a series of tasks in Word as Word records those tasks as VBA macro code. By using the macro recorder, you can create some macros without having to write a single line of VBA code. (The Record Macro Dialog Box, Macro Names, Keyboard Shortcuts for Macros)

In some cases, you'll need to write custom code to improve upon the efforts of the macro recorder.