About this Course

Course Description:

Learning to use Microsoft Word is easy with video tutorials that will quickly walk you through all the key features Word has to offer. Erin begins the series with the basics of getting you up, running, and familiar with the interface and tools. Then you’ll progress into more advanced topics like formatting, adding content, using styles, optimizing long documents, creating tables, document protection, proofing, and more. Along the way, you will pick up tips, tricks and techniques that will have you creating and formatting documents like a pro!

Course Outline:

Chapter 1: GETTING STARTED WITH WORD 2010

1. Exploring the Word Interface

 2. Working with Word Views

 3. Navigating through Documents

 4. Selecting Document Content

 5. Using the Navigation Pane & Enhanced Search

 6. Converting & Saving Files

Chapter 2: SETTING UP THE DOCUMENT

1. Configuring Paper Size, Orientation & Margins

 2. Working with Document Themes

 3. Adding Page Borders, Colors & Watermarks

Chapter 3: APPLYING CHARACTER FORMATTING

1. Aligning Text in a Document

 2. Copying/Pasting Text, Using Placeholder Text & Importing Text

 3. Font Formatting Basics

 4. Drop Caps, Ligatures, Number Formats & Stylistic Sets

Chapter 4: APPLYING PARAGRAPH FORMATTING

1. Nonprinting Characters & Paragraph Marks

 2. Aligning Paragraphs

 3. Indenting Paragraphs

 4. Line & Paragraph Spacing

 5. Accessing Advanced Paragraph Formatting

 6. Managing Paragraph & Page Breaks

 7. Controlling Hyphenation

 8. Working with Tabs & the Ruler

 9. Working with the Tabs Dialog Box

Chapter 5: LEVERAGING THE POWER OF STYLES

1. Styles 101

 2. Identifying, Clearing & Copying Styles

 3. Applying Built-in Styles

 4. Customizing Basic Styles

 5. The Style Inspector & Reveal Formatting

 6. Importing, Managing & Deleting Styles

Chapter 6: ADDING OTHER CONTENT

1. Bulleted & Numbered Lists

 2. Customizing Bulleted Lists

 3. Customizing Numbered Lists

 4. Creating Tables

 5. Converting Text to Tables

 6. Adding Excel Spreadsheets

 7. Manipulating Table Structure

 8. Sorting Text

 9. Formatting Tables

 10. Adding Charts

 11. Images, WordArt & SmartArt

Chapter 7: OPTIMIZING LONG DOCUMENTS

1. Adding Cover Pages

 2. Using Sections & Breaks

 3. Formatting with Columns

 4. Working with Hyperlinks

 5. A Word about Master Documents

 6. Manipulating Content in Outline View

 7. Managing Headers & Footers

 8. Working with Footers in Complex Documents

 9. Saving & Accessing Quick Parts

Chapter 8: ENHANCING THROUGH REFERENCES

1. Generating a Table of Contents

 2. Inserting Cross-references

 3. Inserting a Table of Figures

 4. Footnotes, Bibliographies & Table of Authorities

 5. Configuring the Index

Chapter 9: FINALIZING DOCUMENTS & MAIL MERGE

1. Proofing Text & Compressing Images in a Document

 2. Protecting Word Documents

 3. Creating a Mail Merge

 4. Adding Mail Merge Rules

 5. Saving Templates

 6. Completing a Mail Merge

 7. Credits 

Course Duration:

27 Hours

This training includes the program-specific features that are mapped to the Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) certification exam for the corresponding product.

MOS certification validates proficiency for individuals who PASS the certification exam, and shows that they can meet globally recognized performance standards.

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