Word 2013 Essential Training

Teaches you the basics of working with documents in Word 2013, from creating and editing to formatting text.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

1. Getting Started with Word 2013

• Launching Word and touring the interface
• Opening, closing, and reading documents
• Using the new bookmark feature
• Creating new documents with templates
• Saving documents
• Opening and editing PDF documents
• Printing documents

2. Editing Text

• Inserting new text
• Selecting text with the mouse or keyboard
• Rearranging text with Cut, Copy, and Paste
• Finding and replacing text
• Undoing and redoing actions

3. Formatting Text

• Introduction to fonts
• Choosing the right font and font style
• Changing text case
• Adding pizzazz with special text effects

4. Using Paragraph Formatting

• Changing paragraph alignment and justification
• Adjusting line spacing
• Keeping text together across page breaks
• Applying paragraph shading and borders
• Using tab stops and indents

5. Formatting Pages

• Changing page size, margins, and orientation
• Using headers, footers, and page numbers
• Organizing a document with sections
• Adding page backgrounds, borders, and watermarks

6. Formatting Efficiently with Styles and Themes

• Applying a theme to a document
• Applying Quick Styles to text
• Creating your own Quick Styles
• Restricting formatting to a selection of styles

7. Creating Bulleted and Numbered Lists

• Creating a bulleted or numbered list
• Changing the format of a bulleted or numbered list
• Creating levels in a list
• Creating a multilevel list with styles

8. Working with Tables

• Creating new tables from scratch
• Converting existing text to a table
• Formatting table appearance
• Using Quick Tables
• Adding and removing columns and rows
• Sorting data in a table
• Merging and splitting cells
• Converting a table to text
• Inserting an Excel table

9. Illustrating Your Documents

• Illustrating with pictures, shapes, and clip art
• Positioning and cropping graphics
• Using a table to organize text and graphics
• Applying special effects to graphics
• Adjusting photos in a document
• Illustrating with WordArt
• Inserting online video into a document
• Diagraming with SmartArt
• Inserting screenshots
• Inserting a chart

10. Using Macros and Building Blocks

• Creating a macro
• Finding and running a macro
• Editing a macro
• What are building blocks?
• Creating and saving Quick Parts

11. Proofing Your Documents

• Checking spelling and grammar
• Setting proofing and autocorrect options
• Using the thesaurus, research, and translation tools

12. Reviewing Documents with Others

• Inserting and reviewing comments
• Tracking changes and showing markup
• Comparing and combining documents

13. Sharing Documents with Others

• Getting documents ready for sharing
• Saving documents to SkyDrive
• Sending documents via email
• Password protecting a document
• Restricting editing for part or all of a document

14. Customizing Word

• Changing general settings
• Changing advanced settings
• Customizing the Ribbon
• Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

Conclusion

• What's next?