Microsoft "Word" Training

Learn about the teaching method and tools,and  the scoring of your success during training. This text page also gives you instruction regarding how to size this 'Menu' window. To close the 'About' window, click the 'X' at the top-right corner of the pop-up window.

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An 'Image Map' of the Word window is displayed.  You may click any part of the image to view a pop-up containing information about that portion of the window.

To close the pop up, just click the pop-up itself, or anywhere outside the image, on the blue portion of the screen.

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How to use both keyboard and mouse to 'select' text for actions. You might be surprised by what you see, because some of these tricks are unique to the world of 'Word'

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How to use both keyboard and mouse to 'select' text for actions. You might be surprised by what you see, because some of these tricks are unique to the world of 'Word'

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A beginning course in Word Processing. Includes 'hidden' characters, 'backspace' and 'delete' keys, general document navigation, use of spell-checking and the Word dictionary, and opening, editing, and saving a Word file.

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Includes 'Paste Options', a dialog new for Word 2002. This lesson also includes 'selecting' and 'copying' objects in a Word document.

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Word's 'Status Bar'. What the icons mean and how to put them to use for you in navigation and editing of Word documents.

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Includes 'Paste Options', a dialog new for Word 2002. This lesson also includes 'selecting' and 'copying' objects in a Word document.

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Templates are defined: We learn how to create a document from a template, how to install a template, and how to use a template to save time and effort in word processing.

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Includes most tools common to the 'Standard' and 'Formatting' toolbars. Each is explained in detail, with a 'close-up' of the tool icon for each to help in recognizing them on the toolbar at their normal size.

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This lesson goes into more in-depth study of customizing the toolbars in Word. It includes advanced use of the 'more items' area for displaying additional tools on a toolbar, and customizing those that show on the toolbar, including how to move an entire toolbar, or just a single tool.

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'Styles' are explained, and used, in this lesson. The lesson uses 'Word 97' to demo use of 'cascading style sheets' in Word. Included is instruction on how to change an existing Style. We have covered the 'Font', and the 'Paragraph' editing dialogs in this lesson.

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'Commenting' is one form of the overall category called 'Markup' of documents in Word. Markups, including 'Comments' do not normally appear in the final print version. Instead it is a way for the author, or multiple authors, to save and share their thoughts during the creation of a Word document.

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The different 'parts' of a standard document are pointed out and explained in the lesson. Includes the headers and footers, the 'body', and more.

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Shows how to create a document table of contents (TOC) by using 'Heading' styles.

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The usual purpose of a Word document is to provide communications through printed media. 'Page Setup' explains how to set margins, paper-type, printed orientation, and more.

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Macros are tiny programs that you can create inside Word, to easily perform repetitive tasks. Demonstrates how to create a macro and save it as a 'Keyboard' macro, and also how to 'mount' it permanently on your toolbar.

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The 'Options' dialog allows you to set document preferences including: Parts of the document to display during editing, the name of the author, even the color of the document background. There are nearly a dozen tabs, each with many options that allow you to control the editing and output of your document.

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Footnotes and Endnotes are the comments' published (printed) as a part of the document. They are identified by as annotations by a numbering system, and are used to further expand a topic, or provide a reference source, without interrupting the flow of the document.

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A lesson on what the headers and footers are used for, and how to create and edit them in your Word document.

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Text boxes can make the word processor 'act like' a full-fledged (almost) Publisher application.  This lesson shows how to create, a Text Box, then link two together so they may be used together for information 'flow'.

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