Word 2010 Essential Training

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files
• Creating placeholder text

1. Getting Started with Word 2010

• Using the Word interface
• Understanding the Ribbon
• Customizing the Quick Access toolbar
• Using Word's document tools
• Using the Navigation pane to find words or phrases in a document

2. Word Backstage: From "New" to "Print"

• Managing documents with Backstage view
• Creating a new document from a template
• Making it easy to find and open documents
• Saving a Word document for yourself or others
• Printing a document and choosing a printer
• Setting print options

3. Editing Text

• Selecting text using the mouse and keyboard shortcuts
• Rearranging text using Cut, Copy, and Paste
• Undoing and redoing actions
• Finding and replacing text

4. Formatting Text

• Understanding fonts
• Working with fonts
• Applying basic formatting
• Changing the case of text
• Using text effects and adding impact to a document

5. Formatting Paragraphs

• Aligning and justifying paragraphs
• Changing line spacing
• Using indents and setting tabs
• Creating a bulleted or numbered list
• Keeping text together through page breaks
• Applying shading and borders to paragraphs

6. Using Styles for More Effective Formatting

• Power formatting with styles
• Changing a document's theme
• Changing style sets, color sets, fonts, and paragraph spacing
• Applying Quick Styles and clearing formatting
• Creating a Quick Style set
• Using the Navigation pane with styles
• Easily creating a table of contents
• Restricting formatting to a selection of styles
• Creating a multilevel list using styles

7. Working with Tables

• Creating a table to organize text
• Converting text to tables
• Formatting tables for readability
• Adding and removing columns
• Sorting table data
• Merging, splitting, and formatting cells to create a form
• Converting a table to text
• Inserting an Excel table for calculations and charts
• Using Quick Tables

8. Illustrating a Document

• Illustrating documents with pictures, shapes, and clip art
• Positioning, sizing, and cropping graphics
• Wrapping text around graphics
• Laying out text and graphics with a table
• Adjusting brightness, contrast, and sharpness of photos
• Applying special effects to graphics
• Applying styles to graphics
• Illustrating with charts: Inserting a chart from Excel
• Illustrating with diagrams: Using SmartArt
• Illustrating with screenshots: Capturing screenshots from your computer
• Illustrating with WordArt

9. Document Building Blocks

• Understanding building blocks
• Numbering pages and applying headers and footers
• Adding cover pages and blank pages
• Using text boxes for document design
• Creating and saving custom headers and footers
• Creating and saving Quick Parts

10. Modifying Page Layout

• Setting page margins, page orientation, and paper size
• Inserting sections to organize a document
• Using columns
• Using watermarks, page borders, and colors

11. Proofing Documents

• Checking spelling and grammar
• Setting proofing and AutoCorrect options
• Using the Thesaurus and Research and Translation tools

12. Reviewing Documents with Others

• Tracking changes and showing markup
• Accepting and rejecting changes
• Comparing and combining documents
• Coauthoring documents with SharePoint

13. Sharing Documents

• Trouble-free document sharing
• Emailing a document
• Saving a document to a Windows Live drive
• Saving to SharePoint and sharing a document link
• Using Word on the web
• Blogging with a document
• Finalizing and password-protecting a document
• Restricting editing for all or part of a document
• Digitally signing a document

14. Customizing Word

• Changing Word options
• Customizing the Ribbon
• Creating and playing a macro
• Assigning a macro to the Ribbon

Conclusion

• Goodbye