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LinkedIn Learning

Word 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Improve your productivity and efficiency in Word 2016 with these useful tips on setting document defaults, advanced text formatting, and more.

Syllabus

Welcome
  • Welcome
  • Disable the start screen
1. Application and Document Defaults
  • Set a default font for new documents
  • Use Word Online
  • Run updates
  • Change the default save location
2. Adding and Formatting Text
  • Use automatic text replacement
  • Insert placeholder text
  • Work with hyperlinks and autoformat options
  • Maintain format during copy and paste
  • Apply a drop cap
3. Using Tools
  • Show nonprinting characters
  • Select text
  • View word and character count
  • Customize your spell check dictionary
  • Set the spell check language or disable
  • Lock a document to restrict editing
  • Compress pictures to decrease file size
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Nick Brazzi

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