Introduction to Microsoft Word

Delegates will learn how to understand the fundamental layout principles of a document, enabling you to create professional-looking documents and reports. Delegates will also learn shortcuts and tips about how to use Word in the most efficient way.

Editing a Document

• Selection techniques
• Paste special
• Undo/Redo
• Inserting Text/Date
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Mouse shortcuts

Multiple Documents 

• Viewing multiple documents
• Copy/move text between documents

File Procedures

• Save as older versions
• Backup auto versions
• Retrieving lost documents

Printing

• Print preview
• Print settings
• Setting margins

Character Formats

• Changing text
• Font size/Type
• Shortcut keys
• Setting default fonts
• Symbols
• Format painter

Paragraph Formats

• Line spacing
• Indenting
• Hanging Indents
• Shortcut keys
• Aligning
• Page breaks

Tabs

• Understanding tabs
• Default/Manual tabs
• Left & right tabs
• Centre & Decimal
• Leader tabs

Images 

• Cropping
• Text Wrapping
• Repositioning
• Styling
• Online Images

Autotext (Quick parts)

• Create
• Inserting
• Printing

Page Layout

• Page size
• Orientation
• Margins
• Headers/Footers
• Page breaks
• Section breaks
• Page numbering
• Header/Footers on different pages/Sections

Combining Documents

• Paste special options
• Right-click options
• Common merge problems resolved

Styles

• Understanding styles
• Applying built-in styles
• Creating manual styles
• Modifying styles
• Copying styles to normal template
• Style Gallery
• Shortcut keys
• Automatic tables of contents

Utilities

• Search & replace
• Spell check
• Thesaurus
• Grammar check
• Autocorrect

Office 2016 Features

• What's new
• Cloud storage & OneDrive
• Office 365
• Signing-in to Office 2016
• Using Office 2016 on multiple devices
• Easier file sharing
• New reading mode
• Object zoom
• Resume reading
• Online video
• Expand or collapse a document
• Open and edit PDFs
• Live layout and alignment guides
• Live previews
• Preformatted content
• Quick parts
• Content controls
• Citations and reference
• New proofing features
• Tri pane review panel
• Word count
• Contextual spell checking
• Read mode
• New conversion features
•  File types
• Navigation panel
• Tri pane review panel