Office 365: Word 2013 Essentials
Office 365: Word 2013 Essentials
Microsoft Office 365 gives you the familiarity and power of Office with the flexibility of the cloud. With Office in the cloud, your applications and files are with you wherever you go, whether you’re working offline at your desktop, online, or on one of your devices.

Instructor:
Erin Stallings
Course Information
Course Outline
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
Customizing Word
- Changing general settings
- Changing advanced settings
- Customizing the Ribbon
- Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
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
Formatting Text
- Introduction to fonts
- Choosing the right font and font style
- Changing text case
- Adding special effects
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
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
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
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
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
Illustrating Your Documents
- Illustrating with pictures, shapes, and clip art
- Positioning and cropping graphics
- Applying special effects to graphics
- Adjusting photos in a document
- Illustrating with WordArt
- Inserting online video into a document
- Diagramming with SmartArt
- Inserting screenshots
- Inserting a chart
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
Proofing Your Documents
- Checking spelling and grammar
- Setting proofing and autocorrect options
- Using the thesaurus, research, and translation tools
Reviewing Documents with Others
- Inserting and reviewing comments
- Tracking changes and showing markup
- Comparing and combining documents
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