Word 2019 : From essential to advanced skills - online training

1 The essential modules

Word 2019 – Level 1: Essential skills

This module offers interactive training consisting of 55 training videos, 55 exercises and 6 additional resources.

2 Get started in Word

• You need to know: About your word processor
• Opening a document
• Overview of the environment
• Moving around in a document
• Displaying the nonprinting characters
• You need to know: Text made easy
• Text input
• Managing paragraphs
• You need to know: Selecting, copying, moving
• Selecting and deleting text
• Undoing, redoing, repeating an action
• You need to know: Saving files
• Saving a document
• Creating a new document

3 Apply basic text formatting

• You need to know: Formatting characters
• Applying a quick style
• Applying a theme
• Formatting characters
• Character colour
• Character case
• Character font and size

4 Arrange paragraphs on the page

• Paragraph indents
• Paragraph alignment
• Paragraph spacing
• Line Spacing
• Borders and shading
• Moving text
• Copying text

5 Page layout, pagination and printing

• Page layout
• Zoom
• Printing
• Page breaks
• You need to know: Headers and footers
• Headers and footers
• Page numbering

6 Managing tabs and lists

• Setting a tab stop
• Tab stops with a leader line
• Managing tab stops
• Numbered and bulleted lists
• Customised bulleted list
• Customised numbered list
• Different levels in a list
• List styles
• Line breaks
• Hanging indents

7 Learn some new skills

• Using Microsoft Word Help
• Inserting a document, a cover page or a blank page
• Hyphenation
• Nonbreaking space or hyphen
• Inserting special characters
• Character spacing and position
• Finding text/formatting
• Replacing text/formatting
• Copying formats
• Using the learning tools
• Checking spelling and grammar
• Managing a custom dictionary
• AutoCorrect settings
• Finding synonyms
• Search and translation functions
• Views and windows

8 Word 2019 – Level 2: Intermediate skills

This module offers interactive training consisting of 41 training videos, 41 exercises and 1 additional resource.

9 Avoid repetitive typing

• Creating an AutoText
• Using an AutoText
• Managing AutoTexts
• The computer's date and time

10 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

11 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

12 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

13 Word 2019 – Level 3: Advanced skills

This module offers interactive training consisting of 45 training videos, 45 exercises and 4 additional resources.

14 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

15 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

16 Perfect your long documents

• Bookmarks
• Cross references
• Hyperlinks
• Text in columns
• Master document
• Index
• Citations and bibliography

17 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

18 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

19 Office 2019: use cases

Excel, Word or PowerPoint with an Office 365 subscription

Video: This module offers to view a video lasting 22 minutes.

• The Office suite with or without an Office 365 subscription: what are the differences?
• Creating and saving Office files in OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Teams
• Editing an Office file from OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams
• Sharing Office files with other contributors or people from outside your organisation
• Co-editing a file

20 Complementary material

Word (2019 and Office 365 versions) – Reference book

Online book: This module includes digital course material.