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  • How to keep Track Changes from broadcasting your confidential data

    Track Changes is a great feature, but if you don’t know where the pitfalls are, you could wind up in serious trouble. Here are a few things you should watch out for.

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  • Checking Spelling and Grammar

    Before you send out that document, you need to be sure it’s truly ready to go. Here’s how you run (and customize) Spelling and Grammar Check, remove metadata (particularly important if you’re going to email your document), preview the print layout to catch last-minute formatting snafus, and print your document.

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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  

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