Stop Wasting Time in Word! Tips & Shortcuts to Be More Efficient
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: The Power of Mail Merge Made Easy
What happened the last time you wanted to send an email or letter to a group of people? Did you waste time manually creating each communication one-by-one? When you want to send the same document to many people, be more productive by tapping into the automated Mail Merge features in Word. In this training session, you’ll go through the step-by-step process of creating and delivering a mail merge letter or email. You’ll also find out how to further customize and personalize your results.
- Understanding mail merge basics
- Running the Mail Merge Wizard and manually completing a mail merge
- Working with data from Word, Excel, or Outlook
- Applying merge rules to customize each mailing
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: Getting Started with Macros
If you have tasks in Microsoft Word you perform repeatedly, you don’t have to keep doing each step manually. Instead, create macros to automate these actions. In this course, find out how to plan, create, edit, and run macros in your Word documents.
- Understanding and planning macros
- Creating macros with the recorder
- Working with macro security
- Exploring easy editing of macros (programming not required)
- Running macros with a Quick Access Toolbar button
- Running macros with keyboard shortcuts
Recommended Session Length: 90-180 minutes (customized to audiences and organizations). Longer, hands-on training sessions are also available on key topics in Microsoft Word.
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