Microsoft Word 2016 - Bootcamp - Zero to Hero training

Hi there, in the next couple of videos we're going to be building this formal business letter here, in Microsoft Word 2016, so, let's get started.

So first things first, let's open up Word, and I'm using Windows 10, and Microsoft Word 2016. To open it up, click on the little windows icon, I find it's just easier where it says, at the bottom it says, "Ask me anything". I'm going to click 'Word', there he is there. Open him up.

In this video we're going to look to change the measurements, from inches to centimeters, or centimeters to inches, it's up to you.

Now, I'm based in Dublin, and everything here is kind of metric sizes, so I need to change mine to inches, because that's where most of my audiences are, you might be doing it the other way round. 

Hi there, in this video we're going to make this letter, we're going to look at the text formatting that makes it happen, especially looking at the things like ‘space after’, the gaps that appear between these lines, so ‘space after’, and ‘line spacing’, also, we'll cover basics like graph, fonts, and font sizes. All right, let's get into it.

Hi there, in this video we're going to make this letter, we're going to look at the text formatting that makes it happen, especially looking at the things like ‘space after’, the gaps that appear between these lines, so ‘space after’, and ‘line spacing’, also, we'll cover basics like graph, fonts, and font sizes. All right, let's get into it.

In this video we're going to look at inserting images into Word. We'll also look at some slightly more advanced stuff, so we'll look at just putting in a nice basic logo in here. We'll also look at, say an image like this, where he has the ability to move around wherever he likes, and not be kind of stuck down into the text. So let's go and do that in Microsoft Word.

So we've got a little bit of formatting left to do. Now, instead of covering every single formatting option, we're in 'Home', and not going through every single one of these features. You'll probably cry if I go through them all. 

Hey, in this video it's going to be nice and easy one. We're going to look at saving for an older version of Word. We're going to look at saving as a PDF, and printing. 

Hi, in this video we're going to look at getting started with a monthly newsletter for a company. Now it's going to be a lot more tools that we're going to learn, but also there's a lot more creativity that goes into it. So if you are maybe new to design, or at least, like me, get a bit stuck, doing the same old stuff, you need inspiration, probably the quickest and easiest way is to look to people that are already making beautiful stuff, see what they do, and-- We're not going to copy, but we're going to kind of use it as inspiration for our own stuff.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to start creating our monthly company newsletter. It's going to be about 3-4 pages, and it's going to look something like this. It's going to be, I guess, less of a traditional Word document, but things all over the place, more of a design piece. So we're going to learn these features to make something like this. All right, let's go ahead and do it.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at cropping an image in Microsoft Word. We're going to be doing something like this, we'll bring in a large image, then crop it down to look something like this. All right, let's go do it.

Hey there, in this video we're going to look at creating a custom color, a corporate color, and then we're going to add it as the defaults, for Word's every document has it in there. Let's go do it.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at correcting your images, making it look nicer, fixing the brightness and contrast, and we're also going to do something like this, where we kind of make it black and white, add our corporate color to it, and fade it out, so it's kind of nice big block image thing. All right, let's go and do that.

Hi, in this video we're going to look at downloading and installing a new font to use. It's just going to be this guy at the top here we're using for our brand heading. So, let's go and look at where we can download them, and how to install them.

Hi there, wonderful Word learners. In this tutorial we're going to look setting the default font for your body copy whenever you open up a new document. By default it's Calibri, the size is either 11 or 12, depending on what version you have, so we're going to go and reset that now.

In this tutorial we're going to look at adjusting your line height, and something called the space after. We're going to transform it from this, from the last tutorial where there's a big giant gap underneath there, and the type is a bit too close together, to-- Ready? Where that tucks up underneath, there's a bit more space in between the paragraphs. So, line height, space after, let's go and learn that.

In this tutorial we're going to put a giant letter at the beginning of a paragraph. They're called a drop cap, and we're going to go make it, and we're actually going to pick a different font style to make it look fancy. All right, let's go and do it now.

Hello, lovely people, in this tutorial we're going to look at making this red box column thing that sits over here, with a bunch of text, width fill. Let's go and make this, it's called a text box.

Hi there, in this video, we're going to look at splitting our document into two columns, but not just-- that's easy enough, but we don't want to do it just on the first page, and all the pages, we want it to start later on, so we want to do this, where I've got my first page, and it's very different from my second, which is now two columns, so I want to do that. So, let's go and create two columns, but on the second page first.

In this video tutorial we're going to look at how to create a heading style 1, and you can see up here I've made it to be my default, so I get to select things, and apply it easily. Let's go and do that now.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at creating our own custom style, not one of the ones that already appear at the top, we're going to make our own; see in there? It's called first paragraph. And we're going to be able to select the stuff, and apply it really quickly. All right, let's go and do it.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at putting in images that kind of fix to the page and don't move along. So this guy here, he's fixed, watch this, I can type in anything and it all stays there, he doesn't move around with the type. So let's go and look at how to do that.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at putting in images that kind of fix to the page and don't move along. So this guy here, he's fixed, watch this, I can type in anything and it all stays there, he doesn't move around with the type. So let's go and look at how to do that.

Hello there, wonderful Word people, we're going to look at doing this, where it's type on a path or that 'Benjamin Franklin' there, it's going to wrap around the outside of this circle. So let's go and look at how to do that in Word.

Hi, in this video we're going to look at formatting a really long document, and we're going to start by bringing in all the text, and playing around with things like, what to do with the existing formatting, and your current formatting, and how do I strip it out, those types of things. So let's go and do that now in this video.

In this video what I want to do is to be able to paste something, it comes through with the wrong formatting from the existing document, but we have to click on it anywhere and say, "Bam, you're the right font, you're the right size, you're the right colors." So, let's go and do that, and we're going to set something called a style set.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at removing all these double returns, there's one after this paragraph, and then there's another one to get down to this one, so it's going to look like this when we finish. Let's go and do it.

In this video we're going to look at starting our page numbering at something other than page 1, could be page 2, page 3. Now, an example here, we've got our first page, with no page number, we've got our empty page, this is going to be our contents page, our table of contents, that we'll make a little while later, and then our third page has page 1 on it. Let's go and learn how to do that.

In this video we're going to look at starting our page numbering at something other than page 1, could be page 2, page 3. Now, an example here, we've got our first page, with no page number, we've got our empty page, this is going to be our contents page, our table of contents, that we'll make a little while later, and then our third page has page 1 on it. Let's go and learn how to do that.

In this video we're going to look at starting our page numbering at something other than page 1, could be page 2, page 3. Now, an example here, we've got our first page, with no page number, we've got our empty page, this is going to be our contents page, our table of contents, that we'll make a little while later, and then our third page has page 1 on it. Let's go and learn how to do that.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at creating a Table of Contents, then we're going to look at updating the Table of Contents, and what happens, creating some styles, making it bullet proof. Let's go and do that.

In this video we're going to look at creating a list, we'll both look at numbered lists and bulleted lists, and how to do the adjustments to the space between the edges here, and the space between the numbers, and the content. Let's go and do that.

Hello wonderful Word people, in this tutorial we're going to look at doing our first line indent for our paragraph, we're even going to make it fancier, and look italics, fancier still, we're going to turn it into a style so we can reuse it through a really long document, over and over again. Let's go and do it.

Hi there, Word people, in this tutorial we're going to look at tabs, we're going to do something looking like this, and we're going to learn all the ins and outs, and we're going to learn why they are a bit of a pain in the neck, and how to get around that. Let's go and do it.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at making this pretty little graph, and inserting it into a Word document. So let's go and do that now.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at how to bring in Excel documents into your Word document. We'll look at how to bring it through so it's just kind of living in Word. We'll also show you how to connect a text so it updates when Excel updates. We'll also show you how to bring it in just as a pure old image. All right, let's go and do that.

Hello wonderful people, in this video we're going to look at creating diagrams and flow charts, and any sort of info-graphic style thing you might want to make. Now Word calls this Smart Art, and Smart Art is awesome, and we're going to go off and learn it now. Let's go do it.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at selecting a chunk of either text, or-- it can be anything actually, and saving it so that we can reuse it, rather than styles. It's actually a block and chunk of text, and it's called quick parts. So let's go and look at that now.

Hello wonderful Word learners, in this tutorial we're going to look at adding comments to documents, and replying to them, and deleting them, and adjusting them, changing their names, all that lovely stuff. All right, let's go and do that.

Hi there, in this video tutorial we're going to look at creating a company template. We've gone through them, we've styled this report in previous tutorials, we like it, what we want to do is make sure that we can save a version of it that the next person can use, or say you're designing it as a designer for a company, you want to give it to them, but you don't want them to be able to override the original.

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at making a good looking table like this one from scratch. We'll also look at starting with some of the templates, because they can be really handy too. All right, let's get going.

Hello wonderful people, in this tutorial we're going to look at doing track changes, where you get these crazy lines, where things have been deleted, and other things have been added, so we're going to tidy this up, make it look really easy to use, and track our changes. 

Hey there, Word lovers. In this tutorial we're going to make text over the top of an image. This one's going to be movable, the image is going to be in the background, it's not going to be washed out, we're going to do this gray box, kind of washed out boxes, well it's part of it. So let's go and do that now in Microsoft Word.

Hi there, in this video we're going to show you how to make links that will jump out to website, and how to style them so they're not blue and underlined, but also work through how to add links when they jump out to an email address, like this one, and also, the lovely thing, we're going to turn off when you hit bringyourownlaptop.com, and hit return, it's not going to automatically convert it into a hyperlink, we're going to disable that. Let's go and do that in this tutorial.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at how to bring in a YouTube video, like this one, or Vimeo, or any other kind of hosted video service that you might want to play straight within Word. Happy days! Let's go do that.

In this tutorial we're going to create an interactive PDF, it means I can send somebody a PDF, they can download it from a website, and there's some interaction, and in our case, it's going to be videos which we installed in our last tutorial, and hyperlinks, so let's go and do that now.

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at sharing our Word document. Now, let's say the situation is, I've finished this Word document, I need to send it to somebody, either for amends, or just to send it to them just because I'm finished, and there's a couple of ways of doing it. 

Hi there, in this video we're going to look at making a form that can be filled out in Word, and be emailed to us. So, couple of things that make this form cool before you go and make it, is that you can't click on the word 'Name', so you can't go and adjust things and wreck your lines and stuff, but they can fill in here, that says 'Click or tap here to enter text'.

Hi there, in this video we're going to take this list from Excel, and merge it into Word using Mail Merge, and what it's going to do is it's going to automatically create pages in terms of our letter head, and it's going to put, all personalize, there's Daniel, there's Craig, there's Malcolm, all pulled from that database, and automatically make this long document for us, so we can print it off, super easy, using Mail Merge. Let's go do that now.

So, what do we do next? Next thing you could do is, I'd love to see some of the projects you're working on. So, screenshots, leave that in the comments, post it in the project section, depending on where you're watching this video. 

The other thing is, if you liked it, leave a review, they really help me out.