Microsoft Word 2013 - Introduction

TOPIC DETAILS

Getting to Know Microsoft Word

• Start word from the Windows start screen
• Start word from the desktop
• Understand the start screen
• Create a new blank document
• The Word screen
• How Microsoft Word 2013 works
• Use the ribbon
• Show and collapse the ribbon
• Understand the backstage view
• Access the backstage view
• Shortcut menus
• Understand dialog boxes
• Launch dialog boxes
• Understand the Quick Access Toolbar
• Add commands to the QAT
• Understand the status bar
• Exit safely from Word

Your First Document

• Create documents in Word
• Use the blank document template
• Type text
• The save as place
• The save as dialog box
• Save a new document on your computer
• Type numbers
• Insert a date
• Document proofing
• Check spelling and grammar
• Make basic changes
• Save an existing document
• Print a document
• Safely close a document

Working With a Document

• The open place
• The open dialog box
• Open an existing document
• Navigate with the keyboard
• Scroll through a document
• Page zoom
• View the ruler
• Show paragraph marks
• Count Words

Viewing Documents

• View multiple pages
• Split the window
• Open a new window
• Understand document views
• Change document views
• Understand read mode
• View a document in read mode
• Use resume reading

Working With Text

• Techniques for selecting text
• Select text using the mouse
• Select text using the keyboard
• Edit text in insert mode
• Edit text in overtype mode
• Delete text
• Use undo
• Use redo
• Understand find and replace
• Find words
• Replace words
• Use Go To
• Understand cut and copy
• Cut and paste
• Copy and paste
• Drag and drop cut
• Drag and drop copy
• Use the clipboard task pane

Text Appearance

• Understand font formatting
• Understand font formatting tools
• Work with live preview
• Change fonts
• Change font size
• Increase and decrease font size
• Make text bold
• Italicise text
• Underline text
• Highlight text
• Change text colour
• Use the format painter
• Use the font dialog box
• Clear font formatting

Working With Paragraph

• Understand paragraph formatting
• Understand text alignment
• Change text alignments
• Change line spacing
• Change paragraph spacing
• Indent paragraphs
• Outdent paragraphs
• Start a bullet list
• Add bullets to existing paragraphs
• Remove existing bullets
• Start a numbered list
• Number existing paragraphs
• Create a multilevel list
• Remove existing numbers
• The borders and shade dialog box
• Shade paragraphs
• Apply borders to paragraphs
• The paragraph dialog box indents and spacing
• The paragraph dialog box line and page breaks
• Use the paragraph dialog box

Working With Pages

• Change page margins
• Set custom margins
• Change page orientation
• Change paper sizes
• Set custom paper sizes
• Insert page breaks
• Remove page breaks
• Insert page numbers
• Format page numbers
• Remove page numbers

Tabs With Tables

• Use default tabs
• Set tabs on the ruler
• Modify tabs on the ruler
• Set tabs in the tabs dialog box
• Set tab leaders
• Set bar tabs
• Set mixed tabs
• Remove tabs
• Understand tables
• Create a table
• Add data to a table
• Select in tables using the ribbon
• Select in tables using the mouse
• Insert columns and rows
• Delete columns and rows
• Change column widths
• Change row heights
• AutoFit columns
• Shade cells
• Modify borders
• Add custom borders
• Choose a table style

Clip Art and Pictures

• Understand clip art and pictures
• Insert clip art
• Select clip art
• Apply text wrap styles
• Position clip art
• Resize clip art
• Apply picture styles to clip art
• Reset clip art
• Delete clip art
• Insert a picture
• Insert an online picture
• Resize a picture
• Change the picture
• Crop a picture

Performing a Mail Merge

• Understand mail merge
• Understand the mail merge process
• Create a recipient list
• Create the starting document
• Start the mail merge wizard
• Select a recipient list
• Insert mail merge fields
• Preview the merged documents
• Complete the merge

Printing Documents

• Understand printing
• Preview your document
• Quick print
• Select a printer
• Print the current page
• Specify a range of pages
• Specify the number of copies

Getting Help

• Understand how help works
• Access the help window
• Navigate the help window
• Use the Office website
• Google search help
• Print a help topic

A Guide to Brilliant Documents

• The four pillars of great design
• Perfect page layouts
• Make it readable
• Pictures tell a story
• The tips and traps of writing

Microsoft Word 2013 - Intermediate

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Document Techniques

• Open multiple documents
• Switch between open documents
• Arrange all
• View side by side
• Synchronise scroll
• Reset the window position
• Insert a cover page
• Apply page colours
• Apply a page border
• Understand columns
• Create columns of text
• Specify column widths and space
• Insert column breaks

Formatting Techniques

• Apply first line indents
• Apply hanging indents
• Apply right indents
• Understand pagination
• Control widows and orphans
• Keep paragraphs together
• Keep lines together
• Insert a page break
• Apply hyphenation to text
• Hide text
• Insert a drop cap
• Understand returns
• Reveal formatting

Working with PDF Documents

• Understand PDF documents
• Save a document as A PDF
• View a PDF file in reader
• Open and edit a PDF in word

Preferences and Properties

• Understand Word options
• Personalise Word
• Set display options
• Understand file locations
• Set file locations
• Understand save options
• Set save options
• Understand document properties
• View document properties
• Specify document properties
• View advanced properties
• Insert properties into a document
• Update document properties
• Delete document property data

Styles

• Understand styles
• Apply paragraph styles
• Apply character styles
• Create a quick style
• Create a paragraph style
• Create a character style
• Apply custom styles
• Understand the modify style dialog box
• Select and update styles
• Rename and delete styles
• Import and export styles

Themes

• Understand themes
• Apply a theme
• Modify theme colours
• Modify theme fonts
• Create a custom theme
• Apply a theme to a template
• Reset a theme

Templates

• Understand templates
• Use a sample template
• Download an online template
• Create a template
• Modify a template
• Use a custom template
• Attach a template to a document
• Copy styles between templates
• Create a template from a template
• Tips for developing templates

Section Breaks

• Understand section breaks
• Insert a next page section break
• Insert a continuous section break
• Insert an even page section break
• Insert an odd page section break

Headers and Footers

• Understand headers and footers
• Insert headers and footers
• Insert a blank header
• Insert a blank footer
• Switch between headers and footers
• Edit headers and footers
• Insert page number
• Insert date information
• Headers and footers in long documents
• Adjust header and footer positions
• Insert first page headers and footers
• Insert different odd and even pages
• Create section headers and footers
• Unlink section headers and footers
• Understand recipient lists
• Create a recipient list
• Customise the columns adding records
• Delete records
• Save a recipient list
• Open a recipient list
• Edit a recipient list
• Understand merge from scratch
• Select the document type
• Select the recipients
• Insert the date
• Insert an address block
• Insert the greeting line
• Type the letter
• Insert individual merge fields
• Preview the merge
• Complete the merge
• Set up mailing labels
• Complete mail labels
• Run a saved merge
• Exclude recipients
• Filter recipients
• Sort recipients
• Select another data source
• Apply an If…Then…Else… rule
• Apply a fill in rule

Shapes

• Understand shapes
• Draw shapes
• Select shapes
• Resize shapes
• Move shapes
• Align shapes
• Rotate shapes
• Group shapes
• Arrange shapes
• Delete shapes
• Apply a fill to the drawing canvas
• Apply text wrap to a canvas
• Apply shape styles
• Fill shapes
• Apply a solid fill to shapes
• Apply a gradient fill to a shape
• Apply a picture fill to a shape
• Change shape outlines
• Apply an outline to shapes changing shapes
• Insert and format text
• Apply shadow effects
• Apply reflection effects
• Apply glow effects
• Soften and bevel edges A
• Apply 3-D rotation effects

Text Boxes

• Understand text boxes
• Insert a preformatted text box
• Type text into a text box
• Position a text box
• Resize a text box
• Delete a text box
• Draw a text box
• Format a text box
• Link text boxes
• Modify text box margins
• Change text direction
• Apply effects to text boxes

Table Features

• Create a table from text
• Align data in cells
• Display table gridlines
• Insert formulas into a table
• Update formulas in a table
• Sort table data
• Merge table cells
• Split table cells
• Understand table properties
• Align tables
• Change the direction of text
• Repeat heading rows
• Convert a table to text

Enhancing Pictures

• Understand picture enhancements
• Remove a picture background
• Correcting pictures
• Colour pictures
• Apply artistic effects
• Apply shadows and reflections
• Apply a glow effect
• Soften and bevel edges
• Apply picture styles to images
• Reposition pictures
• The format picture pane
• Crop pictures accurately
• Change the picture layout

Microsoft Word 2013 - Advanced

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SmartArt

• Understand SmartArt
• Insert a SmartArt graphic
• Insert text
• Indent text
• Change the SmartArt style
• Change SmartArt colours
• Change a SmartArt layout
• Add more shapes to SmartArt
• Resize SmartArt

Longer Documents

• Understand tables of contents
• Insert a table of contents
• Navigate with a table of contents
• Update page numbers
• Update a table of contents
• Customise a table of contents
• Format a table of contents
• Understand indexing
• Mark index entries
• Create an AutoMark file
• Mark index entries with an AutoMark file
• Remove marked entries
• Generate an index
• Modify the index format
• Update an index

Master Documents

• Understand master documents
• Understand subdocuments
• Create a master document
• Create subdocuments
• Work with master document views
• Insert subdocuments
• Format a master document
• Edit subdocuments
• Merge subdocuments
• Split subdocuments
• Delete subdocuments
• Build a table of contents
• Print a master document

Footnotes and Endnotes

• Understand footnotes and endnotes
• Insert footnotes
• Insert endnotes
• Locate footnotes and endnotes
• The footnote and endnote dialog box
• Change the number format
• Convert footnotes and endnotes
• Delete footnotes and endnotes

Bookmarks and Cross References

• Create bookmarks
• Navigate with bookmarks
• Delete bookmarks
• Create cross-references
• Delete cross-references

AutoCorrect

• Understand AutoCorrect
• Use AutoCorrect
• Add AutoCorrect entries
• Use Math AutoCorrect
• Understand AutoFormat
• Use AutoFormat
• Use AutoFormat as you type

Building Blocks

• Understand building blocks
• AutoText versus Quick Parts
• Insert a building block
• Create Quick Parts
• Save building blocks
• Insert Quick Parts
• Edit building blocks
• Delete building blocks

Document Proofing Features

• Proofread your document
• Use proofreading marks
• Disable the spelling & grammar checker
• Customise the spelling checker
• Customise the grammar checker
• Use the thesaurus
• Set a different proofing language
• Translate selected text
• Set the default language
• Understand custom dictionaries
• Add words to the custom dictionary
• Add words to the custom dictionary file
• Delete words from the custom dictionary
• Create a custom dictionary
• Change the default custom dictionary
• Disable and enabling a custom dictionary
• Remove a custom dictionary

Working Collaboratively

• Coauthor documents
• Save to OneDrive
• Share documents
• Open shared documents
• Insert comments
• Work with comments
• Print comments

Tracking Changes

• Understand tracking changes
• Enable and disable tracked changes
• Switch between simple markup and all markup
• Use comments in tracked changes
• Show and Hide markup
• Show revisions inline and in balloons
• Advanced tracking options
• Accept and reject changes

Comparing Documents

• Understand document comparisons
• Select documents to compare
• Accept and reject changes
• Save the revised document

Protecting Documents

• Understand document protection
• Make a document read-only
• Work with a read-only document
• Restrict formatting
• Work with formatting restrictions
• Restrict editing
• Make exceptions
• Stop document protection
• Apply an open document password
• Apply a modify document password

Fields

• Understand fields
• The field dialog box
• Insert a document information field
• Set field properties
• Show and hide field codes
• Show and hide field shading
• Insert formula fields
• Insert a date and time field
• Update fields automatically when printing
• Lock and unlock fields
• Apply a number format
• Understand interactive fields
• Insert a FILLIN field
• Type field codes into a document
• Activate interactive fields
• Insert an ASK field
• Use REF to display bookmarks
• Activate fields automatically

Electronic Forms

• Understand electronic forms in Word
• Create the form layout
• Understand content controls
• Display the developer tab
• Insert text controls
• Set content control properties
• Insert the date picker Control
• Insert prompt text
• Insert formulas
• Insert a combo box control
• Insert a drop-down list control
• Protect and saving the form
• Use an electronic form
• Edit a protected form

Macros

• Understand macros in Word
• Set macro security
• Save a document as macro- enabled
• Record a macro
• Run a macro
• Assign a macro to the toolbar
• Assign a keyboard shortcut to macro
• Edit a macro
• Create a MacroButton field
• Copy a macro
• Delete a macro
• Tips for developing macros