Microsoft Word 365 Essentials

Learn how to copy, cut, and paste content across Word documents, manage the clipboard, and choose paste options like keep source formatting, merge formatting, or unformatted.

Explore spell check and grammar tools in Word 365 to spot errors, apply corrections, and tailor proofing options, including dictionary entries and thesaurus suggestions.

Explore Word 365's built-in thesaurus in the review tab to replace words like security with safekeeping using insert, synonyms, or the thesaurus, and learn shortcuts Shift+F7 and F7.

Master Word's find and replace to locate every instance of a word, refine searches with advanced options, and replace all with whole words and case precision.

Practice find and replace and spell check in Word 365 by replacing tech talk with xyz tech, correcting misspellings, and reviewing results.

Master formatting in Microsoft Word by using the Home tab's font and paragraph tools, applying bold, color, casing, alignment, and live preview to create professional, readable documents.

Use the format painter to copy and apply formatting: purple, bold, and the right font across a document, a time saver, and double-click to apply it to multiple objects.

Explore styles in Word 365, learn how preset formats ensure consistency and efficiency, and apply, modify, and update heading styles to control fonts, colors, and alignment across documents.

Learn to create and apply custom styles for normal, heading one and heading two, bullets, and numbering, using the design tab and style sets for consistent, efficient document formatting.

Apply heading 1 to rates of pay and heading 2 to hourly wage schedule, then edit the styles in the styles panel, such as turning heading 1 red.

Explore how to adjust alignment options, justify text, apply and modify styles, and use the ruler to set margins and tab stops for clean, polished documents.

Adjust line spacing and space before or after paragraphs in Word 365, using the show/hide formatting marks, the line spacing options, and the design tab, for precise, document-wide styling.

Learn to apply columns in Word 365 to create a professional, readable layout by choosing column counts, adjusting the gutter, and adding a line between columns.

Convert the document to two columns with a line between, and adjust margins and padding inside each column. Use layout tab to set columns, line between, and 0.9 in spacing.

Learn to apply bullets and numbering in Word 365 by selecting text, choosing bullets or numbering, and adjusting indents, tabs, and ruler settings for precise formatting.

Customize bullets and numbering in Word 365 by defining new bullets, selecting symbols or fonts like Wingdings, and adjusting color, size, and indent for consistent styles across documents.

practice creating bullets and sub-bullets and convert content into a numbered list using letters A–E in Word 365, applying indent and tab for proper formatting.

Learn to set margins, portrait or landscape orientation, and paper size in Word, the page setup dialog and on-ribbon controls, applying changes to whole documents or forward with page breaks.

Explore how to reveal paragraph markers, identify page breaks and section breaks, and control page orientation on a per-page basis in Word 365, including access via print and layout options.

Learn to print Word documents with multiple methods, including the file menu, quick print on the toolbar, and Ctrl+P, using print preview, page ranges, orientation, margins, and printer properties.

Export word documents as PDFs, adjust size and image quality, select page ranges, add bookmarks and metadata, apply accessibility tags, and encrypt with a password before publishing.

Explore how to create headers and footers in Word 365, insert page numbers and custom text, apply templates, and tailor elements for first, odd, and even pages with graphics.

learn to adjust margins in word 365 using shortcuts and the ribbon: set left, right to 1 inch and top/bottom to 0.5 inch via the page setup dialog.

Learn to create and format tables in Word 365 by inserting a three by five table, entering data across cells with the tab key, and formatting with the design tab.

Learn to format tables in Word 365 by applying presets, shading, and borders; customize header, first and last columns, banded rows and columns, and borders for readability.

Resize columns and rows, insert or delete columns and rows, merge cells, rotate text direction, align content, and adjust cell margins using the layout tab and mini toolbar.

Convert text to table in Word 365 by selecting content and using convert text to table. Adjust auto fit, split by tabs, and convert back to text when needed.

Convert tab-delimited text into a properly sized Word table using auto fit to contents. Apply a chosen table style with banded rows for a polished, readable layout.

Insert images from your device, stock images, or online pictures, place them with the cursor, resize using corners to avoid distortion, and use the picture format tab for text wrapping.

Explore how to enhance images in Word 365 by adjusting brightness, contrast, sharpness, applying gray scale, adding artistic effects, borders, shadows, and cropping to produce a more visually engaging document.

Learn how to wrap text around an image in Word 365 using the picture format tab, choose square, then resize and position the image to sit within the text.

Insert an image, wrap text to fit squarely inside the paragraph, apply a thick black border, and add a bottom-right drop shadow using the picture format tools.

Explore Word options to customize general, display, proofing, save, language, accessibility, and advanced settings, and tailor the ribbon and trust center controls.

Master Microsoft Word 365 essentials by exploring the workspace and ribbon navigation, formatting, styles, alignment, columns, bullets and numbering, page setup, tables, images, and text wrapping.