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Word 2016: Formatting and Styles in Depth

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Overview

Learn how to use Word 2016 styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents.

Learn how to use Word styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents. Instructor Gini von Courter shows how to create, apply, and modify a variety of style types, from paragraph styles to list styles. More advanced topics include generating a dynamic table of contents from styles, using style sets, restricting formatting and document use with styles, using keyboard shortcuts, and much more. Plus, learn how to share styles with colleagues by building them into Word templates.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you need for this course
  • Using the exercise files
1. Get Started with Styles
  • Themes and styles: The basics
  • Create, modify, and apply styles
  • Types of styles
  • View styles and formatting
2. Apply Styles
  • Three ways to apply styles
  • Apply table styles
  • Apply styles to lists
  • Use styles with find and replace
3. Customize and Use Styles
  • Style naming conventions: The basics
  • Create a paragraph style by example
  • Create a character style
  • Base a new style on an existing style
  • Create styles from existing formatting
  • Modify styles automatically
4. Manage Styles and Style Sets
  • Save a custom style set
  • Modify paragraph spacing for a document
  • Copy styles to another document or template
  • Rename or delete a style or style set
5. Advanced Style Techniques
  • Generate a table of contents
  • Restrict users to specific styles
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Gini von Courter

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