Microsoft Word Training

Microsoft Word training course teaching techniques for developing long documents.

Word offers a range of powerful options for creating professional-standard long documents comprising several hundred pages that are stable and reliable. This course teaches everything you need to set up and produce such documents. 

You’ll Learn To:

• Set up a master document comprising multiple sub documents. ‘Chunking’ your document this way enables multiple authors to work on it simultaneously.
• Use styles and templates.
• Incorporate navigation – cross references, Table of Contents and Index.
• Use Quick Parts features useful for long documents, including fields, AutoText, AutoCorrect and building blocks.
• Work with graphics effectively.
• Use Track changes for peer review.
• Use macros to automate repetitive tasks.

Microsoft Word for long documents training is arranged on-request, i.e. one-to-one training or a ‘closed course’ for your group. Your training can be tailored to take into account any existing knowledge you have, and the work you’re going to be doing.

Content:

• Document setup
• Page setup
• Document structure considerations
• Section breaks
• Running headers and footers
• Headings
• Page numbering
• Setting up master documents for large publications
• What are master documents/sub-documents?
• Benefits of master document/sub-document approach – collaborative authoring
• Using styles and templates
• Styles
• Templates
• Document navigation
• Cross references
• Table of Contents
• Table of Figures
• Index
• Useful Quick Parts features for long documents
• Fields
• AutoText entries
• Building blocks
• Autocorrect
• Using Search to check for errors
• Working with graphics
• Incorporating screenshots and images
• Linking to source files
• Working with Tables
• Inserting and manipulating tables
• Peer review features
• Marking tracked changes
• Reviewing tracked changes
• Using macros to automate repetitive tasks
• What is a macro?
• Recording a macro