Ready to get more out of Microsoft Word? This course takes you beyond the basics, showing you how to automate tasks that eat up your time and apply advanced formatting techniques that keep your documents looking sharp and consistent.
You'll also learn how to build custom styles and templates and manage long documents with ease, giving you a skill set that makes a real difference in how efficiently you work day to day. It's a great fit for anyone who wants to get noticeably more productive in Word.
What You Will Learn
- Juggle multiple documents at once without losing your place or your sanity
- Track changes and collaborate with others using comments and built-in revision tools
- Apply advanced formatting techniques to give your documents a polished, professional finish
- Build and manage reference tables, including tables of contents and indexes
- Design forms and use mail merge to automate personalized communications at scale
- Create and apply custom style sets and templates to keep your formatting consistent across every document
Course Outline
Working with Themes
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Apply a Theme
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Change Theme Colors
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Change Theme Font
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Modify a Theme
Building Blocks
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Insert Building Blocks
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Save AutoText
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Insert AutoText
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Insert Graphics/Shapes as AutoText
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Fields
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Insert Document Property
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Insert a Field
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View/Edit a Building Block
Pagination Options
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Pagination
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Widow/Orphan Control
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Keep with Next
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Keep Lines Together
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Page Break Before
Text Boxes
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Insert a Text Box
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Linking Text Boxes
Document References
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Insert a Caption
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Insert a Cross Reference
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Insert a Footnote
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Enter Sources
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Insert a Citation
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Manage Sources
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Works Cited, References, or Bibliographies
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Insert a Reference Page
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Mark an Index Entry
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Insert an Index
Using Mail Merge
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Start Mail Merge
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Choose Recipients
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Insert an address block
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Preview Results
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Finish and Merge
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Step-by-Step Mail Merge Wizard
Mark Up a Document
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Enable Track Changes
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Display for Review
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Show Markup
Review Markups
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Reviewing Pane
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Accept Change
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Reject Change
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Compare Documents
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Combine Revisions from Separate Documents
Picture Tools
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Text Wrapping Options
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Square Text Wrapping
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Top and Bottom Text Wrap
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Behind Text Wrap
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Transparency
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Remove Background
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WordArt
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SmartArt
Form Controls
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Create a Form
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Enable the Developer tab
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Insert a Check box field
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Insert a Combo box field
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Form Field Options
Protecting Documents
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Open in Read-Only
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Enable Document Password
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.
