Microsoft Word Productivity Training Classes & Workshops

To build your Microsoft Word skills, choose from these popular Word training sessions (virtual or in-person) or create a custom workshop:

Ready to Be More Productive with Microsoft Word?

Let’s connect to design customized Microsoft Word training or conference sessions tailored to your team’s needs. Programs are available for all skill levels—from foundational (beginner) through advanced—as well as focused, project-specific training designed to help participants apply what they learn right away.

Training topics can be combined to create flexible learning experiences, including:

  • 45–60 minute presentations
  • Hands-on virtual Learning Labs
  • 1–2 hour interactive virtual training sessions
  • Lunch & Learn programs
  • Half-day or full-day workshops

Microsoft Word:
Time-Saving Tips & Techniques Everyone Should Know

Microsoft Word is packed full of features designed to help you create, edit, and produce a wide range of documents. With all of its power, many Word shortcuts, tips, and techniques are not obvious or intuitive. Join this session to find out how to stop fighting with Word automation, customize your workspace, and learn the steps and shortcuts to quickly and easily get your work done.

  • Stopping annoying automation
  • Customizing the Word workspace
  • Creating time-saving automation
  • Navigating more easily with Word tips & tricks
  • Editing shortcuts

Recommended Session Length: 45 to 120 minutes (customized to audiences and organizations). Longer, hands-on training sessions are also available on key topics in Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word: How to Simplify & Organize Long Documents

Longer documents such as annual reports, board meeting materials, and other document-heavy projects present bigger challenges to your work in Word as they often require consistent formatting, complex text layout, and more advanced features. In this session, find out how to master Word skills to create effective, lengthy documents with ease.

  • Building consistent formatting with styles
  • Creating hyperlinks, bookmarks, and cross-references
  • Mastering sections in complex documents
  • Inserting and editing document headers and footers
  • Adding and formatting an automatic table of contents

Recommended Session Length: 45 to 120 minutes (customized to audiences and organizations). Longer, hands-on training sessions are also available on key topics in Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word: Tables & Forms

Tables are incredible tools for page design and layout as part of a larger document or as an integral part of an important business form. Although Word is frequently used to create business forms, most of them are not formatted correctly to allow for easy data entry from a computer. In this training course, find out how to work with the tables and forms features separately and together to create and format useful documents in Word.

  • Creating and formatting a table
  • Sorting table content
  • Editing table layout and structure
  • Creating a form and adding content controls
  • Preparing a form for distribution

Recommended Session Length: 45 to 120 minutes (customized to audiences and organizations). Longer, hands-on training sessions are also available on key topics in Microsoft Word.

Changing Together:
Leveraging Collaboration Tools in Microsoft Word

Whether you are collaborating with others or reviewing someone else’s document, Microsoft Word makes it easy to communicate as you edit, providing collaborative feedback to ensure that your documents match the needs of your partners. In this session, explore how to track and customize changes, review comments, and see how the options to compare and combine documents can help you be more productive when collaborating in Word.

  • Adding comments
  • Working with Track Changes and online editing
  • Reviewing comments and changes
  • Comparing and combining documents
  • Protecting a document from changes

Recommended Session Length: 45 to 120 minutes (customized to audiences and organizations). Longer, hands-on training sessions are also available on key topics in Microsoft Word.

Microsoft Word: Custom

Build your own customized conference session or training course (on-site or virtual) to focus on the Microsoft Word skills that are essential to help your team and organization get the results they need.

Bring a Word Expert to Your Office or Next Meeting

Quickly build Microsoft Word expertise within your office, department, or work team by bringing Dawn to your next meeting for virtual or in-person computer training and seminars. Add valuable educational sessions by adding a Microsoft certified expert, Certified Virtual Presenter (CVP), and software conference speaker to your organization or association meetings and conferences. Or, create customized virtual training for expert training without travel.

Contact The Software Pro® for your tailor-made training program.

Dawn Bjork, MCT, CSP, MOSE, CVP, The Software Pro®
(303) 699-6868
[email protected]

“You are such an entertaining and dynamic speaker. The software tips you provided opened a new door to productivity.”

Conference Attendee

“It’s rare to attend a presentation in which the takeaways will literally save me hundreds of hours in improved productivity well into the future.
The tips you shared are sure to do this for me and many others
”

Steve Krueger, CPPO, CPPB

“Your virtual training gave me the intuitiveness and confidence
to think outside the box and apply something new, and it worked!”

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Beyond her impeccable knowledge of the content, she displayed a True Spirit to Serve. This is a rare combination.”

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 Just your tip on automating email responses was worth the entire conference! Brilliant!”

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Financial Analyst

“Dawn’s session on Microsoft Copilot tips and tricks was AMAZING and will likely save me hours each week.”

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