Word 2013, 2016, 2019 Introduction

Goals

Be able to create and format documents.

Prerequisite

Basic Windows skills.

Contents

Introduction to Word

• Screen components

• Word environment: the Quick Access toolbar, the Ribbon and the tabs

• The Navigation Pane

• The “Tell me want you want to do” bar

• The Reading mode

• Sharing

Managing documents

• Create, open, save and close a document

• Use files created in prior versions

• Save and modify a PDF or XPS document

• Send a document as an attachment

Entering/moving data

• Moving and selecting

• Entering and editing text

• Copying and moving text

Page layout and Printing

• Inserting a cover page

• Changing the page orientation

• Changing the margins of a document

• Managing headers and footers

• Managing page numbers

• Using print preview

• Printing a document

Formatting Characters

• Using the mini toolbar to format text

• Formatting characters 

• Changing the font/character size  

• Changing the character case  

• Changing the space between characters 

• Coloring or highlighting characters

• Applying a border to characters 

• Changing the default presentation of characters

• Applying a character style   

Formatting Paragraphs

• Managing tabs

• Indenting paragraphs

• Modifying text alignment in paragraphs   

• Changing the line spacing  

• Modifying paragraph spacing 

• Preventing a break between lines or paragraphs 

• Apply borders around paragraphs

• Applying a background color to a paragraph

• Bulleted and Numbered lists

• Multilevel lists

• Applying a paragraph style

• Copying formatting

Revising text

• Finding and replacing text

• Spelling and grammar

• Using the thesaurus

• Translating text

• Hyphenating words

• The Smart Lookup (Word 2016)

Tables

• Inserting a table 

• Moving and selecting

• Inserting columns, rows, cells

• Deleting columns, rows, cells

• Splitting a table in two parts

• Merging cells   

• Splitting cells  

• Sorting a table   

• Sorting one column of a table 

• Convert text into table  

• Copying/moving cells in a table

• Repeat column headings

• Modifying column width/row height 

• Standardizing column widths/ row heights 

• Increasing the spacing between cells in a table 

• Changing cell margins in a table  

• Changing the cell alignment 

• Applying a style to a table

• Modifying borders in a table

• Applying a fill color to cells 

• Resizing a table 

• Moving a table with the move handle  

• Positioning a table across a page  

• Saving a table to the Quick Tables gallery