This course equips participants with advanced Microsoft Word skills to produce polished, professional documents. They will learn to apply advanced layout tools, automate formatting, and use productivity features like mail merge and macros to streamline document creation. The course also covers techniques for managing long documents, collaborating on revisions, and ensuring consistency across publishing outputs.
Learning Outcomes:
Apply multi-level formatting and styles for structured document layouts
Create section breaks, headers/footers, and customised page settings
Insert tables, charts, references, and footnotes for professional output
Collaborate using tracked changes, comments, and master documents
Generate tables of contents, indexes, and linked references
Key Topics:
Section breaks, columns, and watermarks
Table formatting and calculations
Document collaboration tools: tracking, comments, and versioning
Table of contents and indexing
Bookmarks, captions, and cross-references
Mail merge techniques for print and email
Embedding objects and using hyperlinks
Macros and productivity automation
Module 1. Revising Word Document Formatting
- Creating a Character Style
- Modify and Update a Character Style
- Creating a Paragraph Style
- Modify and Update a Paragraph Style
- Apply Multiple Column Layout
- Changing Column Width and Spacing
- Inserting/Removing Lines Between Columns
- Creating Watermarks
Module 2. Using Section Breaks
- Working with Section Break
- Creating Section Breaks
- Changing Page Orientation
- Changing Margins for a Section
- Apply Different Headers and Footers
- Apply First Page Header
- Insert Automatic Page Numbering
- Labs
Module 3. Using Table Features
- Apply AutoFormat/Style
- Changing Cell Margins
- Changing Text Direction
- Changing Text Alignment
- Repeating Heading Rows at Top of Each Page
- Setting Table Row to Break Across Pages
- Adding Table Formula
- Formatting Number Field
- Converting a Table into Text
- Converting Delimited Text To a Table
- Labs
Module 4. Working with Comments and Revisions
- Enabling Change Tracking
- Setting Change Tracking Options
- Disabling Change Tracking
- Comparing Documents
- Reviewing Tracked Changes
- Accepting/Rejecting All Changes
- Inserting Comments
- Managing Comments
- Viewing and Navigating Comments
- Labs
Module 5. Creating Master Documents
- Using a Master Document
- Inserting Subdocuments
- Collapsing/Expanding Subdocuments
- Unlinking Subdocuments
- Splitting and Merging Subdocuments
- Locking Subdocuments
- Opening Subdocuments
- Labs
Module 6. Creating a Table of Contents
- Using a Table of Contents
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Using Custom Styles
- Updating a Table of Contents
- Using Outline Levels
- Labs
Module 7. Creating an Index
- Creating an Index
- Creating Main Index Entries
- Creating Index Subentries
- Typing Index Entries
- Cross-Referencing Index Entries
- Generating an Index
- Updating an Index
- Labs
Module 8. Using Bookmarks, Captions and Footnotes
- Working with Bookmarks
- Creating Bookmarks
- Viewing Bookmarks
- Going to a Bookmark
- Cross-referencing to a Bookmark
- Deleting a Bookmark
- Inserting a Caption
- Inserting a Table of Figures
- Inserting a Cross-reference
- Inserting Notes
- Setting Note Options
- Viewing Notes
- Labs
Module 9. Using Mail Merge
- Working with Mail Merge
- Starting the Mail Merge
- Identifying the Main Document
- Creating a Recipient List
- Customizing Columns in a Recipient List
- Rearranging Columns in a Recipient List
- Saving a Recipient List
- Entering Records into a Recipient List
- Sorting Records to be Merged
- Highlighting Merge fields
- Inserting Merge Fields into a Document
- Previewing Merged Data
- Merging to a New Document
- Merging to the Printer
- Sending Email Messages
- Labs
Module 10. Linking/Embedding Objects
- Inserting a Hyperlink
- Display a Linked Object as an Icon
- Embed Data as an Object
- Updating a Link Breaking a Link
- Breaking a Link
- Labs
Module 11. Using Macros
- Recording a Macro
- Running a Macro
- Adding a Macro Button to a QAT
- Saving a Macro Enabled Document
- Deleting a Macro
- Labs