Microsoft Word 2: from Intermediate to Expert certification

Create documents from templates, choose an invoice design, and customize it with your company details and logos. Save result as a template in custom office templates folder for reuse.

Modify an existing template by opening it and saving changes, then create new documents from the modified template via the personal templates section in Word 2010.

Manage document versions with auto-saved versions, compare and combine changes, and recover unsaved documents using Word's file info and recover options.

Change the Word default font using the Home font dialog, setting a new font for new documents or for all documents based on the attached template.

Create hyperlinks to external document content using Ctrl+K or insert hyperlink, linking to headings, other documents, emails, or web pages; test with Ctrl+Click to open.

Learn to restrict editing to specific sections of a Word document by inserting continuous section breaks, protecting forms, and allowing targeted comments while keeping other areas editable.

Create a three-section Word document with section breaks, restrict editing to page two, and save with a password, while inspecting metadata and finalizing the file.

Learn how to manage document changes in Word by turning on track changes, viewing tracked edits on screen, and adding professional comments, while removing header, footer, and unnecessary cover page.

Learn to manage track changes in Word by switching between no markup, simple markup, and original, and using balloons, comments, and formatting to view or hide edits.

Learn how to enforce track changes in Word by restricting editing, locking tracking, and using a password, with notes on version differences and security caveats.

Learn to review track changes in Word, use the reviewing pane, and efficiently accept or reject insertions and deletions, including bulk accept or reject all changes.

Insert comments in Word to discuss a paragraph without editing text, use track changes, reply and resolve or archive, and control printing with print markup.

Explain how to compare two word documents for track changes, view edits by Mark, and add and view comments, and enforce track changes with a password.

Explore advanced find and replace in Word using wildcards, formatting, and styles to locate highlights, fonts, headings, and language-specific formatting, then replace with bold or other formats.

Master find and replace with Word’s special characters, especially paragraph marks and tabs, to convert semicolon-separated lists into paragraph-separated or tab-delimited formats.

Explore advanced character attributes and space options in Word, including all caps, small caps, hidden text, and dynamic spacing, with OpenType features and text effects for posters and headings.

Learn to control paragraph pagination in Microsoft Word by managing line and page breaks, widow and orphan control, keep with next, keep lines together, and insert page breaks before.

Learn to insert and position text boxes, link them to flow text across boxes, and break links when needed, enabling sidebars in Word.

Practice activity 4 demonstrates advanced editing and formatting in Word, including linking text boxes, red font replacements, removing formatting, applying section breaks, landscape orientation, and expanded character spacing.

Learn to insert Excel data into Word tables using paste options, including the Excel worksheet object, and edit embedded data while understanding display limits and range adjustments.

Review this practice activity by copying a table into a Word document as a Word table, using paste options, and inserting a chart while resizing the data range.

Practice activity shows creating a master document with a subdocument from section five, using outline view up to level three, demoting, and locking links to save the subdocument.

Create an auto mark file with a keyword table, then run auto mark to update the index with terms like templates, macros, and options.

Demonstrate creating and managing an index and references in Word by marking entry terms, inserting and updating the index, and adding cross references and a table of contents.

Learn to use Word custom fields to automate header and footer content, including heading refs, save date, and author, with update fields and plain text conversion for practice activity 8.

Refine recipient lists from Excel, Access, or Outlook by editing the data source, sorting by last name, and filtering to homeowners with income over $60,000, temporarily removing and restoring records.

Learn to insert mail merge fields, preview results, and format the address block in Word, matching country and state data and using greeting lines for personalized documents.

Master merge rules for conditional mail merge in Word, using if-then-else to tailor letters for homeowners or high-income recipients.

Learn to create a mail merge from a spreadsheet, insert fields, preview results, and filter recipients by include to produce two letters.