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Creating New Microsoft Word Documents

How to create a new document in Microsoft Word and save it as a .docx file or in other word processing formats.

Module 1

The Interface

Lesson 1

Introduction to Microsoft Word’s Ribbon Interface

Lesson 2

Microsoft Word’s Backstage View

Lesson 3

The Quick Access Toolbar

Lesson 4

How to hide (and unhide) the Microsoft Office Ribbon

Module 2

Navigation and Views

Lesson 1

Navigating with your mouse and keyboard

Lesson 2

Changing Views and Zoom

Module 3

Creating, Saving, Opening and Editing Documents

Lesson 1

Creating New Microsoft Word Documents

Lesson 2

Creating a Word Document from a Template

Lesson 3

Saving Your New Microsoft Word Document

Lesson 4

Opening Microsoft Word Documents

Lesson 5

Typing and Editing 101

Lesson 6

Inserting Special Characters and Symbols

Lesson 7

Copying and Moving Text

Module 4

Basic Formatting

Lesson 1

Character Formatting Basics

Lesson 2

Paragraph Justification and Line Spacing

Lesson 3

Paragraph Indentation and Tabs

Lesson 4

Automatic Paragraph Numbering Basics

Lesson 5

Keeping Text Together on a Single Page (a.k.a. Block Protect)

Lesson 6

Page Setup - Size, Orientation & Margins

Lesson 7

Intro to Headers and Footers

Lesson 8

Watermarks

Lesson 9

Styles 101: Using and Modifying Styles

Lesson 10

Styles 101: Adding Your Own Styles

Module 5

Tables and Columns

Lesson 1

Creating and Editing Tables

Lesson 2

Using Table Tools for More Advanced Formatting

Lesson 3

Sorting Tables and Converting Tables to Text (and vice-versa)

Lesson 4

Inserting and Formatting Columns

Module 6

Printing and Publishing

Lesson 1

Checking Spelling and Grammar

Lesson 2

Using Document Inspector to Delete Metadata

Lesson 3

Printing Your Document

Lesson 4

PDF-ing Your Document

Lesson 5

Printing envelopes

Lesson 6

Formatting and printing labels

Module 7

Legal-Specific Features

Lesson 1

Table of Authorities: Marking Your First Citation

Lesson 2

Table of Authorities: Marking Second and Subsequent Citations

Lesson 3

Table of Authorities: Deciphering TOA Markup

Lesson 4

Table of Authorities: Defining and Inserting your TOA

Lesson 5

Table of Authorities: Before you print/publish

Lesson 6

Table of Authorities: Modifying TOA Styles

Lesson 7

Table of Authorities: Common Problems and Solutions

Lesson 8

Table of Contents: Defining a TOC based on Styles

Lesson 9

Table of Contents: Manually marking TOC entries

Lesson 10

Table of Contents: Inserting the TOC in your document

Lesson 11

Table of Contents: Modifying Your Table of Contents

Lesson 12

Using Sections to control page numbering, headers & footers