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For complete beginners looking to get started with Word.
For complete beginners looking to get started with Word.
Inserting and formatting text
Using the ruler & setting tabs
Numbered and bulleted lists
Using spell check
Printing and saving to PDF
We start this course by introducing the MS Word interface. Before we get into the more detailed teaching we ensure that everyone knows how to find things.
We look at the Word screen, ribbon and short cut menus. We also spend time looking at the status bar and backstage view before looking at customising the Quick Access Toolbar. This allows you to get things set up where they are most convenient for you.
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Now that you know how to navigate around the MS Word window and also around a document, we move onto the basics of creating and editing a document. We show you how to create a new blank document as well as how to use document templates. We look at inserting text, numbers and dates into Word documents. We finish by running through saving, printing and spell checking completed documents.
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This section is all about how you work with a whole document. We show people how to move through different parts of the document as well as the various different views of your document that Word gives you. We also look at using the word count feature and the ruler. We finish looking at paragraph marks and how to preview a document. This section gives a thorough introduction to working with documents in MS Word.
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When you are editing and finalising a document, it is likely that you will use the cut and paste functions in Word extensively. They allow you to move complete sections of text without needing to retype it. This uses something called the clipboard. We cover all aspects of the clipboard in this section.
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This section focuses on the various ways that you can work with and edit text in a document. We look at the different methods available for editing and selecting text. We review the ways that we can undo, redo and repeat various actions in a Word document. We finish looking at inserting special symbols (for example, accents on letters or the GBP symbol) and at using the find and replace function to replace multiple text items.
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This section covers all you need to know to change the appearance of your text. You can change the size, colour, italicise it and make it bold for example. Once you have done all that you can use the format painter to copy the whole style and apply it elsewhere in your document.
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This session will show you the different uses of Tabs and how you can set them up in your word file.
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This session shows you how to ensure that your text is in perfectly presented paragraphs. We cover changing the text and line spacing in a paragraph as well as indenting and using lists for sections of text.
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This section will guide you through changing paper size, and the layout. A very useful feature when creating larger documents is the page break. This tells Word that you want to start specific text on a new page, no matter how little text is on the previous page.
Once your document is completed you will more than likely need to print it. There are several different options available and this section will guide you through them.
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You don’t need previous experience with Word to attend this course.
This course assumes that you have a basic understanding of Windows and computer file storage. So long as you understand these aspects, you’ll be fine.
Not sure if this is the right level course for you?
Our Word course level adviser takes less than 60 seconds to complete.
Alternatively, give us a call, we’d be delighted to help.
Take your Word skills to the next level and create beautiful documents
Take your Word skills to the next level and create beautiful documents
Controlling text with Styles
Columns, page breaks & tables
Inserting a Table of Contents
Editing and inserting pictures
Using and modifying templates
Columns are a great way of adding interest to your documents. They are frequently used to ensure that documents are easy to read and communicate well. They do however need to be set up correctly. We show you how to insert and manage columns in your Word document so that they don’t cause any issues.
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Now we focus on working with sections of text. We show you how to work with sections and how to insert section breaks into your document. We also cover inserting page breaks.
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Similar to columns, tables are a great way to present information in a Word document. They can make information far more straightforward to understand for readers. MS Word makes creating and formatting tables very quick and simple.
This session shows you how to create a table and how to edit it once it is created. It also looks at how to add and edit the data in your table. It also shows you how to ensure that your table looks just right by adjusting borders, columns widths and backgrounds.
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Having covered the basics of table creation and control in the previous session, we move on to more advanced table editing techniques. This section covers how to align the text in table cells, and how to work with formulas in your table cells. It also covers sorting your table data, as well as editing table properties, text alignment and a number of other presentation tricks.
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Microsoft Word contains a number of standard templates that can be used to save time when creating new documents. For example, it has a standard invoice template which contains tables with sections for all of the relevant information that is required in an invoice. Word also allows you to create and save your own templates, as well as apply a template to an existing document.
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Word includes an Auto Text function. This helps spot and correct typos. It can also be used to quickly insert a set word or series of words which you use repeatedly. This session covers how to work with Auto Text and also how to edit it as it doesn’t always get it right!
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A style is a predetermined combination of a font type, size and colour. Styles can be set up and saved so that they can then be applied very quickly to text. This ensures that your document can be very quickly and simply formatted. This session covers all aspects of creating and working with styles so that you can ensure that your documents are consistently formatted.
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Having introduced styles in the previous session, we take things a little further in this session. We look at how you can delete, modify, rename and update a style. We also look at importing styles from other Word documents and exporting them to other Word documents.
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Once you can understand and use styles, inserting a table of contents is easy. A couple of clicks of a button and you have a table of contents that makes navigating a document so much simpler.
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They say that a picture speaks a thousand words. This session covers all of Word’s picture functionality. It shows you how to insert pictures. It also covers Word’s picture editing functions which allow you to resize and control your picture to ensure that it works well in your document.
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Once you have an understanding of Word’s picture editing function, there are then many techniques you can use to enhance your document.
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Word contains a number of tools for creating shapes which can be used to create diagrams in your document. This section covers all aspects of working with shapes. So we start with how to insert them, how to select the correct one and how to position and size it correctly. We then look at applying styles to shapes and also inserting text into shapes.
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Another very helpful option in MS Word is to use text boxes to control your text. They are often very useful to highlight key points in a document. This session looks at how to use text boxes, how to move and resize them and how to position them correctly.
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Once you have created Text Boxes there are then many different ways of editing them and changing them to meet your needs. This session will give you an overview of multiple ways in which you can do so.
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Before you attend this course you need to have attended our Word Essentials course or have equivalent experience from your prior use of Word.
This means being able to produce, save and retrieve documents, and knowing how to edit and format characters and paragraphs in a document.
Not sure if this is the right level course for you?
Our Word course level adviser takes less than 60 seconds to complete.
Alternatively, give us a call, we’d be delighted to help.
The fastest way from complete beginner to confident Word user.
Book an introduction and intermediate Word course at the same time and save £55.
The fastest way from complete beginner to confident Word user.
Book an introduction and intermediate Word course at the same time and save £55.
Become a Word power user using all its most powerful tools.
Become a Word power user using all its most powerful tools.
Using mail merge and forms
Commenting & track changes
Creating footnotes & an index
Creating master documents
Automating tasks with macros
Mail merge is a hugely powerful function in MS Word that allows you to create large mailings to an address list very quickly and simply. As ever it is only as good as the way that it is set up. We show you how to set up and run a mail merge properly so that the results are exactly what you are looking to achieve.
We cover the basics of using mail merge in this session. We look at setting up the base document and the mail merge process. We then move on to looking at how to choose the letter recipients and how to run the process.
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To make mail merge work effectively you need to have good quality data to start with. This will explain what a recipient list is and how to add, edit and save them
This session covers more advanced mail merge techniques in MS Word. It looks at how you can manage and control the recipients that are put into the mail merge from your larger list. It also looks at only putting recipients that meet specific criteria into the mail merge and how to work with data in other locations.
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Word options is where you can customise the appearance of your version of Word. The backstage view contains a large number of options which allow you to control how your version of Word displays and also how and where it saves documents.
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Editing or reviewing a document typically involves printing out the document and then marking-up the hard copy. This includes making comments and suggestions, or providing feedback, for example. With Word’s Comment tool, you can insert comments into a document, which will appear in the margin, making it possible to edit or review a document totally on-screen.
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When a number of people are working on the same document it can be extremely useful to see what changes have been made to a document and by whom. Word allows you to see this by tracking changes as they are made.
This session introduces you to the ins and outs of working with track changes. It shows you how to turn them on, how to control how they are displayed and how to review and accept the changes made by others.
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Having introduced the basics of tracking changes in the previous session we now look at other ways that you can manage a document when multiple people are working on it. This session shows you how to control and limit the changes that others can make to your documents. This varies from making your document Read Only to limiting the changes that can be made to the text or format of a document. It also shows you how to create exceptions to the limitations that you have set for specific parts of your Word document.
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Bookmarks are another very useful feature when working with long documents in Word. They allow you to create and edit cross-references very quickly and simply. They also allow you to move around large documents very quickly. Rather than scrolling you can get Word to take you straight to a bookmark that you request.
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Footnotes and endnotes are a key part of large or technical documents. This session covers all you need to know to ensure that your document notes are well presented and formatted. We look at creating, editing and modifying both footnotes and endnotes in this session.
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Similar to a table of contents all large documents should contain an index. Again Word can make this time consuming task much less painful. It can be used to create an index for your document automatically or, more likely, you will need to input into Word all or some of the entries that you would like it to include. Although it usually requires some manual intervention, Word makes indexing documents far faster.
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Captioning allows you to add a number label. It is usual to caption tables and other figures that you insert into your document. By numbering them, you allow readers to easily navigate to them.
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Master documents allow you to create and consistently format one master document from a series of Word subdocuments. It may be that different people are working on different subdocuments. It may also be that each subdocument has been created as a stand alone document but that they now need to be combined into a master document as in the case of a PhD.
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This brief session covers drawing in content from other documents. It primarily looks at working with and embedding linked data and worksheets from Excel but also looks at taking text from other Word documents.
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As well as creating documents, MS Word also allows you to create forms electronically that you can send to people to complete. It allows you to specify the data that they must enter and to format your form so that it is easy for people to use.
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Macros are a very useful way to automate repetitive tasks in Word. They work by allowing you to record a series of actions as a macro. Word will then repeat these actions each time that you run your macro. This session is an introduction to macros. It shows you how to create, edit and save simple macros.
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This course assumes that you are already a confident Word user to the level of our Intermediate Word course either because you have attended that course or through practical experience.
Not sure if this is the right level course for you?
Our Word course level adviser takes less than 60 seconds to complete.
Alternatively, give us a call, we’d be delighted to help.
Harness Word’s tools to efficiently create, edit and manage long documents.
Harness Word’s tools to efficiently create, edit and manage long documents.
Navigating documents quickly
Indexes & tables of contents
Using templates and styles
Using outline view
Bookmarks, notes & references
Before you come on this course you should have a good understanding of the concepts covered in our Word Introduction and Word Intermediate courses. These include producing, editing, formating, saving and retrieving documents.
Take full control of Word writing and editing Word VBA code.
Take full control of Word writing and editing Word VBA code.
Introduction to VBA
The Word Object Model
Using Forms and controls
Procedures and functions
Debugging and error handling
This course assumes a knowledge of Word up to an advanced level. It does not assume any prior knowledge of working with macros or VBA.
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Creating a Table of Contents is covered on our intermediate Word course.
The tables icon can be found at the beginning of the References ribbon.
You will need to apply Styles from the Home ribbon for your headings which are then used to create an automatic Table of Contents.
Tables, and in particular tables of contents, are an extremely valuable skill for beginners to Microsoft Word and can save huge amounts of time.
Mail Merge is covered in our Advanced Word Course.
Mail Merge is used to add variable data to the same document. For example, you can use the same letter but merge different names and addresses onto it.
Mail Merge is found in the Mailings ribbon. If you have never used this feature before, it’s a good idea to use the Step-by-Step Mail Merge Wizard on the Mailings ribbon under Start Mail Merge which will walk you through the process.
Mail Merge is an expert Word tool for advanced users and functions by cycling through a list that you provide Microsoft Word with automatically, saving you a huge amount of time.
Section breaks are covered on our Word Intermediate course.
Section Breaks are used in a document to create different sections or areas. For example, if a landscape page is required in the middle of a document, a section break would allow you to do this and not affect the other pages in the document. They are key part of your word processing when working with larger documents along with tables.
The Section Breaks command is found in the Layout ribbon under Breaks.
Fonts are covered on our Microsoft Word Essentials course.
A font gives text a particular look, size, colour and other characteristics. For example, many people use larger fonts in the header row of tables.
Fonts are set in the Font group.
To make a font default, so it doesn’t change, the Font dialogue box launcher is used. The launcher is located in the bottom right corner of the font group.
Choose the desired look and select Set as Default located in the bottom left. This can either be done just for this document or all documents from now on.
Document templates are covered in our intermediate Microsoft Word course.
When a template is used, only a copy of that file is opened. Templates are original documents that can’t be overwritten.
Creating a template in Word is part of the Save As process. In the Save As dialogue box the option Document Template (.dotx) would be selected from the Save as Type drop-down list.
Templates can save intermediate Word users huge amounts of time, as can tables as discussed above. Our Microsoft Word courses are focused on equipping you with practical skills and knowledge to ensure you return to work a much faster, more confident Word users.
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
Letting us know before the course which areas you would like to focus on is very helpful.
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