Word 2013: Creating Long Documents

Learn Word 2013 for authoring reports, white papers, books, and other long documents and explore best practices for planning, writing, and sharing them.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files

1. Developing a Long-Document Strategy

• Understanding long-document challenges
• Using Word's long-document features
• Steps for building a long document

2. Building Structure with Outlines and Master Documents

• Building an outline
• Editing an outline
• Working within outlines
• Using master documents

3. Using Captions

• Adding a caption
• Creating a table of figures

4. Creating Bookmarks and Cross-References

• Creating and using a bookmark
• Inserting a cross-reference

5. Working with Footnotes and Endnotes

• Creating a footnote or endnote
• Modifying footnotes and endnotes

6. Including Citations and Bibliographies

• Inserting a citation
• Working with citations
• Managing sources
• Creating a bibliography

7. Creating a Table of Contents

• Creating a table of contents from an outline
• Creating a table of contents from other styles

8. Creating an Index

• Marking index entries
• Compiling an index
• Creating an index with a concordance file

9. Numbering Chapters, Sections, and Pages

• Numbering chapters and sections
• Formatting for page breaks
• Inserting page and section breaks
• Adding page numbers
• Including chapter numbers in page numbers

10. Adding Headers and Footers

• Adding a header or footer
• Including Word fields in a header or footer
• Adding multiple headers or footers

11. Finishing a Long Document

• Adding a cover page
• Setting the document theme
• Formatting long-document components
• Updating automatically generated content
• Printing a long document
• Exporting a long document as a PDF

Conclusion

• Next steps