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Microsoft Word Advanced

Microsoft Word Advanced Course Duration: One Day

Target Audience:

Aimed at users who generate and manipulate long reports, documents, templates, and online forms that may need to be edited by multiple users.

Course Objectives:

To produce high quality reports, templates and forms incorporating more advanced Word features such as bookmarks, fields, and macros.

Course Outline:

Course Introduction

  • Default Settings
  • File Locations
  • AutoFormat as you Type

Inserting Items in Word

  • Online Pictures
  • Videos from the web
  • Apps from the web
  • Designs for Documents

Saving Options

  • Creating Backups
  • File Passwords
  • Saving Versions
  • Saving with SkyDrive

Advanced Editing Features

  • AutoCorrect and AutoText
  • Find and Replace with Formatting and with Special Characters
  • Translation
  • Save in PDF
  • Edit PDF Documents

Advanced Formatting

  • Font and Paragraph
  • Tabs
  • Bullets & Numbering
  • Animate Bullets
  • Bullets & Numbering
  • Change Case
  • Drop Cap
  • AutoSummarise

Drawing Review

  • Insert Pictures and Objects
  • Text Wrapping and Locking
  • Compressing

Tables

  • Review of Tables
  • Tabs in Tables
  • Numbering within Tables
  • Using Formulae in Tables

Tracking Changes to Documents

  • Reviewing Improvements
  • New simple mark ups in 2016
  • Tracking Changes
  • IRM & Protecting the Document
  • Highlighting Changes
  • Accepting or Rejecting Changes
  • Comments with Tracking
  • Comparing Documents
  • Merging Documents

Working with Long Documents

  • Review of Styles
  • Review of Sections
  • Inserting Comments

Referencing Long Documents

  • Table of Contents
  • Inserting Indexes
  • Footnotes and Endnotes
  • Cross References
  • Captions
  • Bookmarks

Forms

  • Types of Form Fields – Text, Drop-Down Lists, Tick Boxes
  • Inserting Form Fields
  • Fill In Fields
  • Fields in Tables
  • Formulae
  • Protecting the Form

Templates

  • Changing Existing Templates
  • Altering the Normal Template
  • Creating New Templates
  • Assign AutoText, Styles, etc. to Customised Toolbars

Macros

  • Creating and Editing Macros
  • Using Macros in a Template
  • Assigning Macros to quick access toolbar

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