Master advanced Word features: mail merge, styles, long documents, and collaboration
You master the essential commands and wish to evolve towards more advanced techniques.
This training programme will make it possible for you to discover or improve your knowledge on managing and elaborating documents (inserting tables, images and graphic objects, creating and managing templates, mailings, long documents, tracked changes…).
Is it for you ?
Users who have mastered the essential commands and wish to move towards more advanced techniques.
Prerequisites
The essential commands must be mastered in order to access Word’s advanced techniques without difficulty.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Automate document creation using mail merge and AutoText features
- ✓ Design structured documents with styles, themes, and custom templates
- ✓ Manage long documents with tables of contents, indexes, and references
- ✓ Integrate and format advanced tables, charts, and graphical objects
- ✓ Collaborate and secure documents with track changes, protection, and co-authoring
Training content
1 The essential modules
2 Word 2019 – Level 2: Intermediate skills
This module offers interactive training consisting of 41 training videos, 41 exercises and 1 additional resource.
3 Avoid repetitive typing
- Creating an AutoText
- Using an AutoText
- Managing AutoTexts
- The computer's date and time
4 Create a table
- Creating a table
- Text input and moving around in a table
- Selecting and inserting rows and columns
- Deleting rows and columns
- Table styles
- Formatting cells
- Row height and column width
- Alignment in cells and table alignment
- Merging or splitting a table's cells
- Converting text to table, table to text
- Sorting a table, a list or paragraphs
- Calculations in a table
5 Add graphic objects to your texts
- Drawing an object
- Sizing/rotating/adjusting a drawing object
- Moving/copying a drawing object
- Formatting a drawing object
- Text in a drawing object/WordArt
- Formatting text in an object/WordArt
- Inserting a picture
- Managing a picture
- Positioning and wrapping a picture
- Captions and table of illustrations
- Document background
- Charts
- Inserting objects from other applications
- Diagrams
6 Make letters •or mailshots •simple
- Creating envelopes/address labels
- You need to know: The mail merge
- Mail merge: associating a list of recipients with a document
- Inserting mail merge fields
- Running a mail merge
- Editing the recipients
- Adding and deleting recipients
- Sorting a list of recipients
- Selecting the records to print
- Conditional text in a mail merge
- Preparing labels via the mail merge
- Fields for variable data
7 Word 2019 – Level 3: Advanced skills
This module offers interactive training consisting of 45 training videos, 45 exercises and 4 additional resources.
8 Master themes, styles and templates
- You need to know: Styles and templates
- Creating a style
- Using the Styles pane
- Modifying a style
- The Normal style
- Deleting a style
- Style sets
- Displaying formatting details
- Creating and customising a theme
- Creating and using a template
- Modifying and deleting templates
- Changing the template attached to a document
- Copying styles to other files
9 Get started with long documents
- Moving around in a long document
- Sections
- Using different headers and footers
- Managing automatic page breaks
- Footnotes/endnotes
- Managing footnotes/endnotes
- Title Hierarchy
- Outline view
- Table of contents
10 Perfect your long documents
- Bookmarks
- Cross references
- Hyperlinks
- Text in columns
- Master document
- Index
- Citations and bibliography
11 Work as a team
- You need to know: Import, export and interoperability with Word
- Transfer, export: PDF, XPS, text, web page, e-mail
- Comments
- Tracking changes
- Managing tracked changes
- Merging and comparing documents
- Protecting a shared document
- Protecting a document with a password
- Finalising a document
- Digital signatures
12 Find out more…
- Drop caps
- Managing application preferences
- Statistics and document properties
- Macros
- Converting Word documents
- Creating a form
- Protecting and using a form
- Versions and recovery of files
- You need to know: Customising the ribbon
- You need to know: Best practice with a word processor
13 Complementary material
Word (2019 and Office 365 versions) – Reference book
Online book: This module includes digital course material.
14 Word 2019 – Level 1: Essential skills
This module offers interactive training consisting of 55 training videos, 55 exercises and 6 additional resources.
📌 Practical information
100% online training. Accessible anytime from anywhere for one year. If you have any questions about registration, the language of instruction, or the cancellation terms, please consult our FAQ