What you'll learn:
- Learn to create new documents, search for text, and modify the page setup.
- Know how to change the view, configure documents for printing, adding and format text.
- Find out about paragraph orphans, and create tables, lists, endnotes, captions, shapes and images.
- Understand what quick parts are, and when you should use them.
- One of the easiest underused items is the Format Painter. You will know how to use it and the Reveal Formatting pane.
- You'll also know more about styles (an under-used but powerful feature), numbering and the QAT.
- You'll also know what more you need to know, and how to find out about it.
This course teaches some of the basic skills you need to know for Microsoft Word. They are required to undertake the Microsoft Certificate 77-418 "Microsoft Word", and will be useful if you wish to take the exam, or which to learn more about Microsoft Word.
At an intermediate level, this free course also gives you my top tips for Microsoft Word.
You will find out about how to quickly and consistently format paragraphs, including using styles. You will modify your page step, change your document views, and configure your documents to print.
We'll also see how to customise your Word environment, putting the things you use most at your fingertips. We’ll also look at how to insert endnotes and captions, quick parts, shapes and images. Finally, we’ll see how much time you can save using Format Painter.
We'll have a look at what Microsoft wants you to learn, and how you can learn it.
You should have Microsoft Word already installed on your computer - either 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365.
Once you have finished the course, you will know some basics for creating and some top tips for developing your Microsoft Word documents, and be eager in learning more.
