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  • Hate Word? Change it

    Frustrated by how Word is laid out? Can’t find your most frequently-used commands when you need them? Features not working how you’d like? Chances are, if you know where to look, you can change it.

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  • Keeping Word Commands at Your Fingertips

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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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