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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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