Microsoft Word: Beginner and Intermediate Training

Explore the backstage view from the file tab, create new documents from templates, open existing files, save or save as, and customize the ribbon and quick access toolbar.

Discover how to locate where your Word documents are saved, set default save locations, and choose save formats such as doc or plain text to prevent data loss.

Explore the home tab to use cut, copy, and paste with shortcuts, and learn paste special options such as keep text only, keep source formatting, and format painter.

Explore the font block in Word, switch fonts like Calibri or Arial, adjust size, apply bold, italic, and underline with shortcuts, and set Verdana as the default font.

Master paragraph formatting in word by applying left, right, center, or justify alignment; create bullets, numbering, and multilevel lists; adjust line spacing and indents, and use show/hide marks.

Search and navigate your Word document using find, replace, go to, and find next with the navigation window, plus replace all and shortcuts ctrl+F and ctrl+G for basic text formatting.

Learn to locate and replace text in Word using find, replace, replace all, find next, and go to, with the left pane and shortcuts Ctrl+F and Ctrl+G.

Master quick text selection with double and triple clicks and the control key plus click, apply formatting using format painter, and use underline options and justify for the entire document.

Discover how Word expands beyond colorful text to turn documents into interactive pages. Use the insert tab to add cover pages, headers, footers, pictures, charts, SmartArt shapes, videos, and links.

Learn to insert cover pages from built-in templates with one click, customize fonts, and use blank page and page break tools to manage large documents.

Insert a table from the insert tab, create a six by four grid, and learn to add or delete rows, columns, and the table itself, including split cells.

Insert pictures, shapes, SmartArt, and screenshots, resize and crop, wrap text tightly, then explore SmartArt categories and colors to create a clear hierarchy diagram.

Learn to insert headers and footers in a document, adjust top and bottom distances, apply first-page or odd/even page options, and use quick parts via document properties.

Insert and place page numbers across the document, then use section breaks to restart numbering from one and hide numbers on blank pages, with the navigation pane guiding you.

Type and format complex equations directly in Word using the equation dialog, insert symbols, apply superscripts and a summation, as shown by the present value example.

Learn to create hyperlinks from the insert tab for text or shapes, and to use text boxes for quotes and other content, with customizable formatting and wrapping.

Insert headers and footers, use quick parts and auto text, and save your contact details as a quick part to insert into letters.

Explore how the design tab improves document aesthetics by applying themes, using paragraph spacing options to suit fonts, and adding watermarks, page colors, and borders for professional layouts.

Learn to format text with styles, set line spacing, and apply design and paragraph spacing to create an appealing document, while managing cover pages, watermarks, and page numbering—cover pages immune.

Enable learners to master document layout in Word by hands-on exercises that adjust margins, orientation, page size, columns, breaks, line numbering, and hyphenation using the layout and page setup tools.

Insert a table of contents from the references tab by selecting a design, apply headings, and update the table as you add content, using ctrl+click to navigate.

Learn to insert footnotes and endnotes in Word, linking notes to words like hunk, veritas, and loco, with automatic redistribution across pages and roman numerals for end notes.

Insert captions under pictures with the caption feature, or place images in text boxes to keep captions attached and moving together; generate a figure list from the references tab.

Explore the mailings tab and the six-step mail merge wizard to create letters, emails, envelopes, labels, or directories from a recipient list.

Learn to leverage spelling and grammar checks, translations, and comments in Word, along with tracking changes and document protection. Customize proofing options to tailor the tool to your writing process.

Explore how the thesaurus offers context-appropriate, elegant word options rather than listing all synonyms, using the right panel's suggestions. Remember that the thesaurus is relevant only for words, not phrases.

Learn to manage collaborative editing in Word by inserting, replying to, resolving, and deleting comments, and tracking changes to stay organized when multiple people update a large document.

Explore track changes in Microsoft Word to manage corrections and author edits, view original versus revised text, and navigate, accept, or reject changes using simple markup and the reviewing pane.

Explore the view tab, discover outline and draft layouts, and use zooming, new windows, and multiple pages to navigate Word 2016. We do not cover macros.

Tackle the Word 2016 capstone project to apply a broad set of Word tools learned in the beginner and intermediate training, producing a professional, well-designed document in about one hour.