Microsoft Word for Office 365 (Desktop or Online): Part 1

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11 hours 28 minutes
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Microsoft Word 365 Mastery

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These days, most people take electronic word processing for granted. While we may still write out our grocery lists with pen and paper, we expect to use a computer to create the majority of our documents. It's impossible to avoid word-processing software in many areas of the business world. Managers, lawyers, clerks, reporters, and editors rely on this software to do their jobs. Whether you are an executive secretary or a website designer, you'll need to know the ins and outs of electronic word processing. Microsoft® Word is designed to help you move smoothly through the task of creating professional-looking documents. Its rich features and powerful tools can make your work easy, and even fun. In this course, you'll learn how to use Word on the desktop to create and edit simple documents; format documents; add tables and lists; add design elements and layout options; and proof documents. Note: Most Office users perform the majority of their daily tasks using the desktop version of the Office software, so that is the focus of this training. The course material will also enable you to access and effectively utilize many web-based resources provided with your Microsoft 365 subscription. This includes brief coverage of key skills for using Word for the Web and OneDrive. Helpful notes throughout the material alert you to cases where the online version of the application may function differently from the primary, desktop version. This course may be a useful component in your preparation for the Microsoft Word (Microsoft 365 Apps): Exam MO-110 and Microsoft Word Expert (Microsoft 365 Apps): Exam MO-111 certification exams. This course is intended for those with a basic understanding of Microsoft® Windows® and who need to learn foundational Word skills, such as creating, editing, and formatting documents; inserting simple tables and creating lists; and employing a variety of techniques for improving the appearance and accuracy of document content. In this course, you will learn fundamental Word skills. You will: • Navigate and perform common tasks in Word, such as opening, viewing, editing, saving, and printing documents, and configuring the application. • Format text and paragraphs. • Perform repetitive operations efficiently using tools such as Find and Replace, Format Painter, and Styles. • Enhance lists by sorting, renumbering, and customizing list styles. • Create and format tables. • Insert graphic objects into a document, including symbols, special characters, illustrations, pictures, and clip art. • Format the overall appearance of a page through page borders and colors, watermarks, headers and footers, and page layout. • Use Word features to help identify and correct problems with spelling, grammar, readability, and accessibility. This course requires that you have Microsoft Word installed on a Windows PC. The course setup instructions provided in the first module of the course go into more detail about the hardware and software requirements.

Syllabus

Getting Started with Word

Over the more than thirty years it has existed, Microsoft® Word has become more than just the leading word processor. It is a comprehensive and feature-laden content authoring tool. Word has features and capabilities that even some long-time users are not familiar with. To use Word efficiently and effectively, you need to know how to navigate effectively—how to locate and select portions of the document that you want to work with, and how to issue commands to get the results you want.

Formatting Text and Paragraphs

Documents are visually more appealing and easier to read when certain formatting and layout options are applied. Microsoft® Word gives you a wide range of control over the appearance of your document, from specific font formats affecting a small text selection to more general formats such as indentation affecting paragraphs to formats that apply to the entire document or large sections of the document, such as page sizes, orientation, and layout. In this lesson, you'll focus on specific formatting options—those that affect text characters and paragraphs.

Working More Efficiently

Some editing and formatting tasks may be repetitive. It quickly becomes tedious when you have to apply the same formatting combinations or text edits in hundreds of different locations in the same document or across multiple documents. Fortunately, Microsoft® Word provides some tools to help you efficiently perform such repetitive tasks.

Managing Lists

When people write business, technical, legal, and personal documents, they often include lists of information. Lists might include such things as procedures, examples, and so forth. There may be quite a bit of effort involved in formatting lists. List items may need to be sorted, and preceded with numbers, letters, or bullets. And they may be indented to set them off from normal paragraphs or to depict a hierarchical structure of some sort. Fortunately, Microsoft® Word provides tools to help you efficiently create and manage lists.

Adding Tables

You've used tabs and tab stops to create the appearance of columns or tables, but for certain table layouts, tabs alone won't give you the control you need to create, format, and efficiently update information. Microsoft® Word's table feature provides another way to present information in table form, and provides you with additional flexibility and ease of formatting for producing table or grid layouts in your documents.

Inserting Graphic Objects

You've created documents containing text, formatting, lists, and tables. You can create a huge variety of documents using only these features. However, there are times when you'll need to include graphics in your documents. These may be as simple as symbols that you insert inline with text, such as the trademark symbol, or currency such as the Euro or British Pound. Or you might need to include complex illustrations, photos, or diagrams that may express certain kinds of information more efficiently and effectively than you can do with words alone. Fortunately, Microsoft® Word includes features that make it fairly simple to insert these kinds of graphic elements.

Controlling Page Appearance

You've applied formatting options and inserted illustrations and other elements that boost the readability of the text in your document. You can also configure other formatting options to alter the appearance of the pages themselves. Fine-tuning a Microsoft® Word page can mean adding design elements that help give either a more professional look or an informal feel, depending on your intent. Layout options can determine how text and graphics flow on the page.

Preparing to Publish a Document

You've applied design and layout options to pages. Before you print or publish your document, you should perform various proofing tasks to ensure the document doesn't contain misspelled words, grammar errors, or punctuation mistakes. Microsoft® Word provides several useful tools to support you in this task. You may also need to share your document with other users who don't have Word. Fortunately, you can export Word documents to a variety of other file formats.