Microsoft Word 2007/2010
Introduction

Course Overview

Move beyond the basics and learn to use some of Microsoft Word's more powerful features. You will learn to automate Word using Autocorrect and will use Building Blocks to insert repetitive content. You will create, apply and edit styles using character and paragraph formats in order to format documents quickly and consistently. You will also learn to improve the appearance of documents using the many advanced character formatting features. Tables and Tables of Contents will also be created and formatted using different strategies. Many other useful Word features will be reviewed including sections, headers and footers, navigating with the Navigation Pane, linking with Excel, themes and mail merges.

Course InformationRelated Training

Duration: Two-Day Course
Platform: Windows Only
Fee: Call for information

We recommend one to eight people for this course.

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The Ribbon, Quick Access Toolbar and Themes

Overview of the Ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar and the new Backstage View (Office 2010)
Using predefined themes to automatically apply formatting to documents
Creating custom themes with a custom colour scheme and custom theme fonts

Eliminate Repetitive Typing

Using the AutoCorrect command to automatically correct common typing errors and creating your own AutoCorrect entries
Using the predefined Building Blocks command to store large amounts of text frequently used
Inserting special characters into a document and using keyboard equivalents to type in non-breaking spaces and non-breaking hyphens
Collecting and pasting multiple items using the Clipboard

Advanced Formatting

Applying advanced paragraph formatting to control indents, spacing and pagination of paragraphs
Setting, changing and deleting custom tabs and setting a leader tab
Applying custom borders and shading to add interest to your text, paragraphs and pages
Using custom bullets and numbering to itemize a list
Applying page formatting and section breaks to allow different headers and footers and margins in each section of a document

Automate Formatting using Styles

Creating and editing styles, including: character and paragraph formatting to automatically format and edit a document
Working with the Styles task pane
Managing styles and copying styles between documents

Navigation Techniques

Using the improved Navigation Pane, the browse object button and using the Outline View to navigate quickly through a document

Creating an automated table of contents using heading styles
Updating and formatting Tables of Contents

Tables

Creating tables to quickly and easily arrange text in columns and rows
Applying table styles and other formats to tables
Inserting and deleting columns and rows and creating a header row
Creating a formula in a table

Linking Microsoft Excel and Word

Inserting linked data from Microsoft Excel into a Word document
Updating linked data
Breaking a link

Collaboration

Reviewing and tracking changes made in a document.
Comparing two documents that were revised without using the Track Changes feature

Mail Merge

Using the Mail Merge Task Pane to create personalized form letters to multiple contacts from different data sets

Application Overview: Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word lets you create, apply, modify and copy styles to eliminate repetitive formatting and ensure you have consistent looking documents.

AutoCorrect will automatically correct your text as you type whereas with AutoText you may choose whether or not you wish to insert the entry into your document. You can modify the AutoCorrect and AutoText
features to insert text and pictures that you use regularly.

Microsoft Word gives you advanced controls over fonts, alignment and spacing, pagination options as well as tabs and the creation of tables for display of information and as a page layout tool.

Users: Admin, Creative, Engineering, Finance, Legal, Marketing and IT Professionals as well as anyone who needs create, edit, assemble, publish and distribute electronic documents.

Microsoft Word 2007/2010 Introduction