Microsoft Word 2016: Part 2 (Intermediate Level)

Learn how to use various character and paragraph formatting options to create a custom style.

Learn how to use various character and paragraph formatting options to create a custom style to give your documents a more polished and professional appearance. (Types of Text Styles (Character Style, Paragraph Style, Linked Style), Heading and Subheading Styles, Character Spacing, Custom Styles, Style Modification Options, Style Sets)

Learn how to create styles for lists and tables.

You can create styles for other elements in Word documents, including lists and tables. Creating your own custom styles for the text in your document can save you time when you need to use the style again. (List Styles, Table Styles)

Learn how document themes enable you to create documents with consistent formatting.

Using themes, you can apply the same fonts, colors, and styles to any document quickly and easily. (Document Themes, Custom Themes, Share Custom Themes, Custom Color Sets, Sharing Custom Color Sets, Custom Font Sets)

Learn how you can create blocks of content to reuse for each document, rather than having to type and format or copy the content each time you need to use it.

You probably have some organizational content that should be formatted and worded the same between documents. Rather than having to type and format or copy the content each time you need to use it, you can create blocks of content to reuse for each document. (Quick Parts, Building Blocks, The Building Blocks Organizer Dialog Box, The Building Blocks Pane)

If you frequently use the same text with the same formatting and copy the information from one document to another to make sure that you use consistent wording and formatting, you can create your own building blocks to make custom reusable content. (The Create New Building Block Dialog Box, Building Block Modification Options)

Learn how to use fields to hold data, that is regularly updated.

If you have content that is regularly updated, you can use fields to hold that data. Whenever you need to change the data, you can just update the fields. Learn how to add fields to your document. (Fields, Field Code Syntax, The Field Dialog Box,)

Learn how to use a templates containing the desired formatting that you can use as the starting point for creating new Word documents.

If you have documents that use the same page layout and styles, and even some of the same content, you can save time if you base your document on a template. (Templates in Word, Types of Templates, Template Categories, Template Storage Locations)

You can modify existing templates or create new templates, which is what you will do in this topic. (Template Creation Options, The Default Template Location)

Modifying a template enables you to make changes that will be available in all new documents you create from the template. (Edit existing Templates, Storage Location)

Instead of re-creating the styles or macros in a different template, you can use the Building Blocks Organizer to copy these elements to a different template (The Template Organizer, Normal.dotm)

Learn how to format different sections of the document in different ways. For example, if there is only one line of text from a paragraph at the beginning of a new page - or a nice graphic is on a new page, but the text explaining the graphic is on the page before it.

In this topic, you will see how you can control the paragraph flow with paragraph options, e.g. keep text and a image together on one page, to organize text in a way that presents a satisfying experience for the reader. (Paragraph Flow Options)

Inserting section breaks enables you to have multiple layouts within a single document. For example, you might need different margin widths or page orientations, e.g. for a large table in landscape mode just for that page. (Sections and Section Breaks, Section Titles, Types of Section Breaks, When to Use Section Breaks)

Using columns in documents such as newsletters allows readers to more easily read the content. Columns break the content into chunks that the eye can easily digest without excessive lateral movement, so the readers don’t lose their place. (Text Columns, Text Column Options, Column Breaks)

Another way you can control text flow is to link text boxes together, which is what you will do in this topic. (Linked Text Boxes, Insert Text from a File)

Learn how to use some of the features of Microsoft Word to create and manage larger documents.

A cover page and carefully placed blank pages provide the reader with a professional-looking document as well as a visual pause between reading sections. (Cover and Blank Pages)

An index enables the reader to locate entries you have marked in a document. Instead of the reader paging through the document looking for specific material, the index provides a quick way to find the information. (The Index Dialog Box, Index Entry Field Codes, Subentries, The Mark Index Entry Dialog Box, Mark Index Entries Options, The Open Index AutoMark File Dialog Box, The Concordance File, The Style Dialog Box)

The table of contents helps the reader quickly find the topics they want without leafing through the whole document. (The Table of Contents Dialog Box, The Add Text Option)

Adding a table of figures to a lengthy document is another way to help the reader find specific information quickly. (Ancillary Tables, The Table of Figures Dialog Box)

A table of authorities is a listing of legal citations used in the text, along with their page numbers. Often, a table of authorities appears in legal documents to refer to sources such as cases, rules, treaties, and statutes. (The Mark Citation Dialog Box, Field Code for a Marked Citation, Passim Option)

Learn how to create an outline showing the order of the major topics and subtopics.

You have probably heard that the best way to begin a report or complex document is to outline the major topics or sections that you want to include. Setting up the general structure of a complex document ensures that the content is organized in a logical manner. (Outline View, Outline Symbols, Outline View Tools)

Instead of working in a single long document would be to work with several shorter documents and combine them later.

An alternative you might choose instead of working in a single long document would be to work with several shorter documents and combine them later. (Master Document, Benefits of Master Documents, Master Document Group, Unlinking Subdocuments)

In this topic, you will perform a simple mail merge in a document.

If you have a letter you want to send to every customer of your organization and you want to personalize it with each customer's name and address, you can use the mail merge feature. (Mail Merge Fields (Address Block, Greeting Line, More Items), Rules, Data Sources,)

In this topic, you will perform a mail merge in a document. (The Mail Merge Process, The Mailings Tab, The Mail Merge Wizard)

Congratulations. You finished Word 2016: Part 2 (Intermediate Level). Now that you have acquired intermediate skills, you may want to become a Word 2016 expert with Word 2016: Part 3 (Advanced Level).

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