MS WORD Essentials: The Complete Course

Applying hanging indents

Applying right indents

Understanding pagination

Controlling widows and orphans

Keeping paragraphs together

Keeping lines together

Inserting a page break

Applying hyphenation to text

Hiding text

Inserting a drop cap

Understanding returns

Revealing formatting

Creating Resume in Ms-word

Make a standard certificate

Creating invoice in Ms-word

Understanding document protection

Making a document read-only

Working with a read-only document

Restricting formatting

Working with formatting restriction

Restricting editing

Making exceptions

Stopping document protection

Applying an open document password

Applying a modify document password

Understanding fields

The field dialog box

Inserting a document information field

Setting field properties

Showing and hiding field codes

Showing and hiding field shading

Inserting formula fields

Inserting a date and time field

Updating fields automatically when printing

Locking and unlocking fields

Applying a number format

Understanding interactive fields

Inserting a fillin field

Typing field codes into a document

Activating interactive fields

Inserting an ask field

Using ref to display bookmarks

Activating fields automatically

Understanding tracking changes

Enabling and disabling tracked changes

Switching between simple markup and all markup

Using comments in tracked changes

Showing and hiding markup

Showing revisions inline and in balloons

Advanced tracking options

Accepting and rejecting changes

Understanding document comparisons

Selecting documents to compare

Accepting and rejecting changes

Saving the revised document

Proofreading your document

Using proofreading marks

Disabling the spelling & grammar checker

Customising the spelling checker

Customising the grammar checker

Using the thesaurus

Setting a different proofing language

Translating selected text

Setting the default language

Understanding custom dictionaries

Adding words to the custom dictionary

Adding words to the custom dictionary file

Deleting words from the custom dictionary

Creating a custom dictionary

Changing the default custom dictionary

Disabling and enabling a custom dictionary

Removing a custom dictionary

Using autocorrect

Adding autocorrect entries

Using math autocorrect

Understanding autoformat

Using autoformat

Using autoformat as you type

Understanding building blocks

Autotext versus quick parts

Inserting a building block

Creating quick parts

Saving building blocks

Inserting building blocks

Editing building blocks

Deleting building blocks

Creating bookmarks

Navigating with bookmarks

Deleting bookmarks

Creating cross-references

Deleting cross-references

Understanding master documents

Understanding subdocuments

Creating a master document

Creating subdocuments

Working with master document views

Inserting subdocuments

Formatting a master document

Editing subdocuments

Merging subdocuments

Splitting subdocuments

Deleting subdocuments

Building a table of contents

Printing a master document

Understanding footnotes and endnotes

Inserting footnotes

Inserting endnotes

Locating footnotes and endnotes

The footnote and endnote dialog box

Changing the number format

Converting footnotes and endnotes

Deleting footnotes and endnotes

Understanding SmartArt

Inserting a SmartArt graphic

Inserting text

Adding shapes below

Adding shapes above

Adding shapes before and after

Adding an assistant

Promoting and demoting positions

Switching SmartArt right to left

Positioning SmartArt

Resizing SmartArt

Applying a different layout

Applying a colour scheme

Applying a SmartArt style

Deleting SmartArt shapes

Longer documents

Understanding tables of contents

Inserting a table of contents

Navigating with a table of contents

Updating page numbers

Updating a table of contents

Customising a table of contents

Formatting a table of contents

Understanding indexing

Marking index entries

Creating an automark file

Marking index entries with an automark file

Removing marked entries

Generating an index

Modifying the index format

Updating an index

Creating a table from text

Aligning data in cells

Displaying table gridlines

Inserting formulas into a table

Updating formulas in a table

Sorting table data

Merging table cells

Splitting table cells

Understanding table properties

Aligning tables

Changing the direction of text

Repeating heading rows

Converting a table to text

Understanding picture enhancements

Removing a picture background

Correcting pictures

Colouring pictures

Applying artistic effects

Applying shadows and reflections

Applying a glow effect

Softening and bevelling edges

Applying picture styles to images

Repositioning pictures

The format picture pane

Cropping pictures accurately

Changing the picture layout

Understanding section breaks

Inserting a next page section break

Inserting a continuous section break

Inserting an even page section break

Inserting an odd page section break

Headers and footers

Understanding headers and footers

Inserting headers and footers

Inserting a blank header

Inserting a blank footer

Switching between headers and footers

Editing headers and footers

Inserting page numbering

Inserting date information

Headers and footers in long documents

Adjusting header and footer positions

Inserting first page headers and footers

Inserting different odd and even pages

Creating section headers and footers

Unlinking section headers and footers

Merging techniques

Understanding recipient lists

Creating a recipient list

Customising the columns

Adding records

Deleting records

Saving a recipient list

Opening a recipient list

Editing a recipient list

Understanding merging from scratch

Selecting the document type

Selecting the recipients

Inserting the date

Inserting an address block

Inserting the greeting line

Typing the letter

Inserting individual merge fields

Previewing the merge

Completing the merge

Setting up mailing labels

Completing mailing labels

Running a saved merge

Excluding recipients

Filtering recipients

Sorting recipients

Selecting another data source

Applying an if…then…else… rule

Applying a fill in rule

Understanding styles

Applying paragraph styles

Applying character styles

Creating a quick style

Creating a paragraph style

Creating a character style

Applying custom styles

Understanding the modify style dialog box

Selecting and updating styles

Renaming and deleting styles

Importing and exporting styles

Understanding themes

Applying a theme

Modifying theme colours

Modifying theme fonts

Creating a custom theme

Applying a theme to a template

Resetting a theme

Resetting a theme

Understanding templates

Using a sample template

Downloading an online template

Creating a template

Modifying a template

Using a custom template

Attaching a template to a document

Copying styles between templates

Creating a template from a template

Tips for developing templates

Understanding PDF documents

Saving a document as a PDF

Viewing a PDF file in reader

Opening and editing a PDF in Word

Understanding Word options

Personalising Word

Setting display options

Understanding file locations

Setting file locations

Understanding save options

Setting save options

Understanding document properties

Viewing document properties

Specifying document properties

Viewing advanced properties

Viewing advanced properties

Updating document properties

Deleting document property data

Starting Word

Understanding the start screen

Creating a new blank document

The word screen

How Microsoft Word works

Using the ribbon

Showing and collapsing the ribbon

Understanding the backstage view

Accessing the backstage view

Using shortcut menus

Understanding dialog boxes

Launching dialog boxes

Understanding the quick access toolbar

Adding commands to the QAT

Understanding the status bar

Exiting safely from Word

The four pillars of great design

Perfect page layouts

Make it readable

Pictures tell a story

The tips and traps of writing

Opening multiple documents

Switching between open documents

Arranging all

Viewing side by side

Synchronised scrolling

Resetting the window position

Inserting a cover page

Applying page colours

Applying a page border

Understanding columns

Creating columns of text

Specifying column widths and spacing

Inserting column breaks

Understanding how help works

Accessing the help window

Navigating the help window

Using the office website

Googling help

Printing a help topic

Understanding mail merge

Understanding the mail merge process

Creating a recipient list

Creating the starting document

Starting the mail merge wizard

Selecting a recipient list

Inserting mail merge fields

Previewing the merged documents

Completing the merge

Understanding printing

Previewing your document

Quick printing

Selecting a printer

Printing the current page

Specifying a range of pages

Specifying the number of copies

Understanding clip art and pictures

Inserting clip art

Selecting clip art

Applying text wrapping styles

Positioning clip art

Resizing clip art

Applying picture styles to clip art

Resetting clip art

Deleting clip art

Inserting a picture

Inserting an online picture

Resizing a picture

Changing the picture

Cropping a picture

Using default tabs

Setting tabs on the ruler

Modifying tabs on the ruler

Setting tabs in the tabs dialog box

Setting tab leaders

Setting bar tabs

Setting mixed tabs

Removing tabs

Understanding tables

Creating a table

Adding data to a table

Selecting in tables using the ribbon

Selecting in tables using the mouse

Inserting columns and rows

Deleting columns and rows

Changing column widths

Changing row heights

Autofitting columns

Shading cells

Modifying borders

Adding custom borders

Choosing a table style

Table convert into paragaraph

Changing page margins

Setting custom margins

Changing page orientation

Changing paper sizing

Setting custom paper sizes

Inserting page breaks

Removing page breaks

Inserting page numbers

Formatting page numbers

Removing page numbers

Understanding font formatting

Understanding font formatting tools

Working with live preview

Changing fonts

Changing font size

Increasing and decreasing font size

Making text bold

Italicising text

Underlining text

Highlighting text

Changing text colour

Using the format painter

Using the font dialog box

Clearing font formatting

Understanding paragraph formatting

Understanding text alignment

Changing text alignments

Changing line spacing

Changing paragraph spacing

Indenting paragraphs

Outdenting paragraphs

Starting a bulleted list

Adding bullets to existing paragraphs

Removing existing bullets

Starting a numbered list

Numbering existing paragraphs

Removing existing numbers

Shading paragraphs

Applying borders to paragraphs

Using the paragraph dialog box

Techniques for selecting text

Selecting text using the mouse

Selecting text using the keyboard

Editing text in insert mode

Editing text in overtype mode

Deleting text

Using undo

Using redo

Understanding find and replace

Finding words

Replacing words

Using go to

Understanding cutting and copying

Cutting and pasting

Copying and pasting

Drag and drop cutting

Drag and drop copying

Using the clipboard task pane

Viewing multiple pages

Splitting the window

Opening a new window

Understanding document views

Changing document views

Understanding read mode

Viewing a document in read mode

Using resume reading

The open place

The open dialog box

Opening an existing document

Navigating with the keyboard

Scrolling through a document

Page zooming

Viewing the ruler

Showing paragraph marks

Counting words

Creating documents in word

Typing text

The save as place

The save as dialog box

Saving a new document on your computer

Typing numbers

Inserting a date

Document proofing

Checking spelling and grammar

Making basic changes

Saving an existing document

Printing a document

Safely closing a document