In this Intermediate Word course, you'll master advanced document formatting and automation features to work more efficiently. You'll learn to perform mail merges for personalized bulk communications, create and format printed labels and envelopes, and work with complex table layouts. The course also covers working with styles, document sections, columns, and the Navigation pane to manage document structure and outlines. You'll explore templates for automating formatting consistency, manage document revisions for collaborative work, create comprehensive master documents, and generate automatic tables of contents and tables of figures for professional documents.
Lesson 1: Organizing Content Using Tables and Charts
- Sort table data effectively
- Control cell layout and formatting
- Perform calculations within tables
- Create charts to visualize data
- Add Excel tables to Word documents (optional topic)
Lesson 2: Customizing Formats Using Styles and Themes
- Create and modify text styles for consistency
- Create custom list and table styles
- Apply document themes for a professional appearance
Lesson 3: Inserting Content Using Quick Parts
- Insert building blocks for repeated content
- Create and modify custom building blocks
- Insert fields using Quick Parts functionality
Lesson 4: Using Templates to Automate Document Formatting
- Create documents from templates
- Create and modify your own templates
- Manage templates with the Template Organizer tool
Lesson 5: Controlling the Flow of a Document
- Control paragraph flow across pages
- Insert section breaks for different formatting
- Insert columns for newsletter-style layouts
- Link text boxes to control text continuation
Lesson 6: Simplifying and Managing Long Documents
- Insert blank and cover pages
- Insert indexes for reference materials
- Insert tables of contents for easy navigation
- Insert ancillary tables such as figures
- Manage outline structure for long documents
- Create master documents for multi-file projects
Lesson 7: Using Mail Merge to Create Letters, Envelopes, and Labels
- Understand and use the Mail Merge feature
- Merge data to create custom envelopes and labels
