Microsoft Word 365 for the Job Market.

The lecture starts from square one, showing you how to open Word, and basically an overview of the opening screen. You will also learn how to anchor the Word program to your taskbar for easy access.

It is important to understand the depth of the Word ribbon and the commands on the ribbon. This lecture breaks down the Contextual Tabs Commands and gives an overview of when you would use the commands and also 'how' to interact with the commands.

You have to realize that you can control the way Word operates with Options. This lecture gives an overview of Word Options. We use them throughout the course, this lecture gives a 'peak' as to when you would use them.

  It is now time to get to work!  This lecture has you entering text in a document. Non-printing characters are so important to see the background of your work, this lecture will discuss why you will want to have them on all the time.  The most important part of this lecture is the explanation of how Word recognizes a paragraph.  Why is that important?  Watch and find out.

Have you ever heard of the three Autos? This lecture shows you how to use AutoComplete, AutoFormat and AutoCorrect. Don't miss this lecture because all of these features assist you in the creation of your document. There is even a 'Math' AutoCorrect.

This lecture is all about navigating around the screen. We will practice using the keyboard and the mouse to move the insertion point, and customize the Quick Access Toolbar so that commands you use most often are right at your fingertips.

There are many ways to select text. We cover all ways to select text, and discuss the reasons for selecting text. Namely; to use the copy/paste feature. Have you ever used the Office Clipboard? Nice feature. Once again, assisting you in the creation of an error-free document.

There is more to fonts than just 'Times New Roman'. You will be surprised how much is involved in choosing the correct font for your document. Do you know the difference between a Proportional vs Monospaced font? Open this lecture and find out. There is also a supplemental file in this lecture for your further understanding of fonts.

When you think of formatting, you probably do not think much past bold, italic and underlining. Those are good, and are labeled character formats. However, I bet you have not heard of the Format Painter where we actually use a paint brush to format text. It is a great feature, open this lecture and try it! (supplemental files available)

This lecture covers three paragraph formats: Text Indents, setting indents and line spacing. You will receive hands-on practice of how Word 2013 formats these topics. (supplemental materials available)

You may have used bullets and numbering lists because quite often, Word will create them automatically. However, in this lecture you will not only create bullets, you will format them to better accommodate the subject of your document. Then you will use the Borders and Shading command to emphasize a paragraph of importance. (supplemental materials available)

I am 'not re-inventing the wheel here' and reusing a previous tabs lecture from another version of Word.  Don't worry though, everything is still the same in Word 365. The lecture is all about tabs.

Not too many people use Tabs.  I don't know why, it is so easy and a 'must' if you are using Proportional fonts (and we all do).  Since proportional fonts are measured vertically (you knew that from lecture 11, right?) you cannot use spaces to align.  There are five tab settings in Word.  You will use everyone of them!  Open this lecture and let's begin. (supplemental material available)

It is time for you to work on your own. You can do it! You have been watching and working very hard. This lecture has you creating a Word tabulation problem. Please send it to me, I am anxious to see how you are doing.

You know about line spacing, but have you ever heard of 'paragraph spacing'? This lecture is going to answer your question 'why is there a blank line between my lines of text when I set it to single space'? Stay tuned to this lecture for that answer. Also, we cover 'Widows and Orphans' (did not make that up) and also how easy it is to 'sort paragraphs'. Lots of good things in this lecture! (supplemental materials available)

No one thinks too much of hyphenation in Word because of Word's Wordwrap feature. But did you ever look at the right side of your text when you are typing in left alignment mode? It is sometimes very uneven and very unattractive. Hyphenation evens up that right margin to make a more presentable finished document. This lecture begins the introduction of yet another formatting feature: Document Formatting. (supplemental materials available)

Word's margin feature is discussed and you are shown all of the margin types available and how to change them. Page orientation is also used; portrait or landscape.

Another Document Formatting feature is Columns. They are great when you have to send out a newsletter. You will be surprised how easy it is to create and format columns. Click into this lecture and let's try creating and formatting some columns.

Tables are a bit more common than tabs. This lecture has you creating and formatting a table. What you probably did not know though was that Word can do formulas. Yes! Ok, so it isn't Excel, but it does formulas. Click into this lecture and see how. (supplemental materials available)

Your turn. There are two skill builder exercises in this lecture. One on Tables alone and one on Tabs and Tables. As I stated numerous times, 'Learning is not a Spectator Sport'! Let me see what you have absorbed from these lectures. Please send them to me and I will give you feedback. Good luck! (supplemental materials available)

Did you ever wonder how Word knew to go to the next page?  It is all automatic, of course it is counting the lines.  Word does not know how to read, however.  It will split headings and text, tables, tabulation problems, etc.  You must control where Word breaks to a new page.  This lecture will show you how to do that. (supplemental materials available) This video is viewed in Word 2013, the only difference is 'page layout' is called 'layout' in Word 365.

Are you a good speller? If you said no, then do not rely on Word's spell checker unless you watch this lecture. Come to think of it, do not rely on Word's spell check feature period! The Spell Checker is more than red wavy lines. (supplemental materials available)

If you know how to properly set the options for the Grammar checker, your document will become grammatically correct.  This lecture covers how to properly use the Grammar checker and why you would need the Thesaurus.  Did you know that you can set Word 365 to give you a readability statistic?  In other words, to what  grade level is your document written? Another nice feature is the translation feature.  You can translate your document to a myriad of languages.  You will be surprised.  Click in this lecture and find out! (supplemental materials available)

Find and replace is a great feature. Repeating the same word over and over in a document can be corrected by using the Find feature. If you discover that you misspelled a word throughout your entire document, you will want to use the replace feature. This lecture shows you how to use both of these features. (supplemental materials available)