Get comfortable using Microsoft Word for everything from personal projects to professional tasks. This course covers the features you'll rely on most, including templates, spell check, and collaboration tools, along with the shortcuts and techniques that help you create polished documents faster and put common formatting frustrations behind you.
By the time you finish, you'll know how to send mass emails, letters, and labels with a single click and keep things moving with keyboard shortcuts that cut out the busywork. No experience with Word required, so it's a great fit for beginners who want to work more productively from the start.
What You Will Learn
- Navigating and organizing documents
- Formatting and managing text, paragraphs, and entire documents
- Inserting and formatting tables
- Creating and managing lists
- Using endnotes, footnotes, and citations
- Inserting and editing images in Word documents
Course Outline
The Word Interface
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Quick Access Toolbar
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The Ribbon
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Views
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Zoom Options
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Navigation Pane
File Management
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New File
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Save As
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Close a file
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Open a File
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Save
Creating a Document
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Using Templates
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Entering Content
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Copy & Paste
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Cut & Paste
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Paste Options
Text Formatting (Font Group)
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Bold/Italics/Underline
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Font Color
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Change Case
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Small Caps Effect
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Text Effects
Paragraph Formatting (Paragraph Group)
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Alignment
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Indentation
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Non-printing formatting marks
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Shading
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Line Spacing
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Tabs
Bulleted and Numbered Lists
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Format Text as a Bulleted List
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Custom Bullets
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Numbered List
Using Borders and Shading
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Text Border
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Paragraph Border
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Paragraph Shading
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Horizontal line
Find/Replace
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Find
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Replace Text
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Replace Formatting
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Go To
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Applying Quick Styles
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Create a New Style
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Modify a Style
Working with Lists
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Sorting a list
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Multi-level Sort
Working with Images
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Inserting Pictures from a File
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Picture Color
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Picture Border
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Inserting Pictures from Online Sources
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Artistic Effects
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Picture Effects
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Crop to Shape
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Inserting Pictures from Stock Images
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Picture Styles
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Picture Size
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Picture Position
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Other Graphics
Creating a Chart
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Inserting a Chart
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Quick Layout
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Chart Styles
Formatting a Chart
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Edit Data
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Change Chart type
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Chart Object outline
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Change the size of the Chart
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Save Chart as Template
Working with Tables
Table Styles
Table Layout
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Rows and Columns
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Merge Cells
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AutoFit
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Alignment
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Formulas
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Convert to Text
Creating Organizational Pages
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Cover Page
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Insert Blank Pages
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Table of Contents
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Update Table of Contents
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Modify Listing of Table of Contents
Using Hyperlinks
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Hyperlink to webpage
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Hyperlink to a place in the document
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Hyperlink to an email address
Page Layouts
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Section Breaks
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Margins
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Columns
Headers and Footers
Page Borders and Colors
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Page Border
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Page Color
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Watermark
Reviewing a Document
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Spelling, Grammar, and Writing suggestions
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Word Count
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Thesaurus
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Comments
This course is available for 30 days. You can choose when to start your access period. Once you activate, you will have 30 days to complete it (access the course materials, quizzes, projects and videos). You may request one extension of seven (7) days. Other extension requests will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Videos are not downloadable.
