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Word 2013 Essential Training

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Overview

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Teaches you the basics of working with documents in Word 2013, from creating and editing to formatting text.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Getting Started with Word 2013
  • Launching Word and touring the interface
  • Opening, closing, and reading documents
  • Using the new bookmark feature
  • Creating new documents with templates
  • Saving documents
  • Opening and editing PDF documents
  • Printing documents
2. Editing Text
  • Inserting new text
  • Selecting text with the mouse or keyboard
  • Rearranging text with Cut, Copy, and Paste
  • Finding and replacing text
  • Undoing and redoing actions
3. Formatting Text
  • Introduction to fonts
  • Choosing the right font and font style
  • Changing text case
  • Adding pizzazz with special text effects
4. Using Paragraph Formatting
  • Changing paragraph alignment and justification
  • Adjusting line spacing
  • Keeping text together across page breaks
  • Applying paragraph shading and borders
  • Using tab stops and indents
5. Formatting Pages
  • Changing page size, margins, and orientation
  • Using headers, footers, and page numbers
  • Organizing a document with sections
  • Adding page backgrounds, borders, and watermarks
6. Formatting Efficiently with Styles and Themes
  • Applying a theme to a document
  • Applying Quick Styles to text
  • Creating your own Quick Styles
  • Restricting formatting to a selection of styles
7. Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists
  • Creating a bulleted or numbered list
  • Changing the format of a bulleted or numbered list
  • Creating levels in a list
  • Creating a multilevel list with styles
8. Working with Tables
  • Creating new tables from scratch
  • Converting existing text to a table
  • Formatting table appearance
  • Using Quick Tables
  • Adding and removing columns and rows
  • Sorting data in a table
  • Merging and splitting cells
  • Converting a table to text
  • Inserting an Excel table
9. Illustrating Your Documents
  • Illustrating with pictures, shapes, and clip art
  • Positioning and cropping graphics
  • Using a table to organize text and graphics
  • Applying special effects to graphics
  • Adjusting photos in a document
  • Illustrating with WordArt
  • Inserting online video into a document
  • Diagraming with SmartArt
  • Inserting screenshots
  • Inserting a chart
10. Using Macros and Building Blocks
  • Creating a macro
  • Finding and running a macro
  • Editing a macro
  • What are building blocks?
  • Creating and saving Quick Parts
11. Proofing Your Documents
  • Checking spelling and grammar
  • Setting proofing and autocorrect options
  • Using the thesaurus, research, and translation tools
12. Reviewing Documents with Others
  • Inserting and reviewing comments
  • Tracking changes and showing markup
  • Comparing and combining documents
13. Sharing Documents with Others
  • Getting documents ready for sharing
  • Saving documents to SkyDrive
  • Sending documents via email
  • Password protecting a document
  • Restricting editing for part or all of a document
14. Customizing Word
  • Changing general settings
  • Changing advanced settings
  • Customizing the Ribbon
  • Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
Conclusion
  • What's next?

Taught by

David Rivers

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