Discover Word word processing and master all its features. From the basics to advanced commands, this training course will enable you to progress in all areas of the software (text entry, formatting and page layout, insertion of tables, images and graphic objects, advanced Word features such as templates, mailings and long document management...).
Objectives of the training
By the end of the course, participants will be able to use the basic and advanced features of Word 2021.
Targeted audience
All users wishing to discover or revise the basics of Word and tackle advanced functions.
Prerequisite
No knowledge of Word is necessary. A minimum of practice with the software can help you progress more quickly. Trainers
Upcoming information
Essential modules
Word 2021 - Level 1: Essential knowledge
This module offers interactive training with 55 training videos, 55 practice exercises and 6 additional information points.
Discover Word, complete a simple text
- Worth knowing: Discovering word processing
- Opening a document
- Environment overview
- Moving within a document
- Displaying non-printable characters
- Worth knowing : Main typography rules and input aids
- Text entry
- Paragraph management
- What you need to know : Selecting, copying and moving
- Selecting and deleting text
- Undoing and redoing an action
- Did you know? Saving files
- Saving a document
- Creating a new document
Keep text to a minimum
- Good to know: Character formatting
- Apply a quick style
- Applying a theme
- Character highlighting
- Character color
- Character break
- Font and font size
Paragraph layout and text reorganization
- Paragraph indentation
- Paragraph alignment
- Paragraph spacing
- Spacing
- Borders and backgrounds
- Moving text
- Copy text
Layout, pagination and printing
- Page layout
- Zoom display
- Printing
- Page break
- Good to know : Header and footer
- Header and footer
- Page numbering
Managing tabs and lists
- Setting a tab stop
- Tabulation with continuation points
- Managing tab stops
- Enumeration and bulleted lists
- Customized bulleted list
- Custom numbered list
- Multi-level list
- List style
- Line feed
- Negative first line indent
Discover must-have features
- Using Word Help
- Inserting a document, cover page or blank page
- Word breaks
- Non-breaking spaces and hyphens
- Inserting special characters
- Character spacing and position
- Text/formatting search
- Replacing text/formats
- Copying formatting
- Using learning tools
- Spell and grammar checking
- Managing a personal dictionary
- Automatic correction settings
- Search for synonyms
- Search and translation functions
- Document and window display
Word 2021 - Level 2: Intermediate knowledge
This module offers interactive training with 41 training videos, 41 practice exercises and 1 additional information point.
Avoid tedious data entry
- Creating an automatic insert
- Using an automatic insert
- Managing automatic insertions
- System date and time
Present a table in text
- Creating a table
- Moving and typing in a table
- Selecting and inserting rows and columns
- Deleting rows and columns
- Table styling
- Formatting cells
- Row height and column width
- Cell and table alignment
- Merging and splitting cells and tables
- Text-to-table conversion
- Table, list and paragraph sorting
- Calculations in a table
Enhance your texts with graphic objects
- Drawing objects
- Dimensioning/rotating/adjusting
- Moving/copying a drawing object
- Formatting a drawing object
- Text in a drawing object/WordArt
- Formatting text in a WordArt object
- Inserting an image
- Image management
- Positioning and wrapping an image
- Captions and table of illustrations
- Document background
- Graphics
- Inserting an object from another application
- Diagrams
Print an envelope or make a mailing
- Create an envelope or address label
- Good to know : Direct mail
- Mailing: associate a list with a document
- Inserting fields in a mailing
- Executing a mailing
- Modifying recipients
- Adding and deleting recipients
- Sorting a list of recipients
- Selecting records for printing
- Conditional text in a mailing
- Preparing mailing labels
- Variable-zone document
Word 2021 - Level 3: Advanced knowledge
This module offers interactive training with 46 training videos, 46 practice exercises and 4 additional information points.
Master themes, styles and templates
- What you need to know : Styles and templates
- Creating a style
- Using the Styles pane
- Modifying a style
- Normal style for a paragraph
- Deleting a style
- Style set
- Displaying formatting
- Creating and customizing a theme
- Creating and using a template
- Modifying and deleting a template
- Changing the template associated with a document
- Copy styles to other files
Get started with long documents
- Moving around a long document
- Section
- Differentiated headers and footers
- Automatic page break management
- Footnote/endnote
- Footnote/endnote management
- Hierarchical title levels
- Document layout
- Table of contents
Finalize long documents
- Bookmarks
- Automatic cross-referencing
- Hypertext links
- Multicoloring
- Master document
- Indexes
- Citations and bibliography
Work with others
- Worth knowing: Import, export and interoperability with Word
- Word data distribution: PDF, XPS, text, Web pages and e-mail
- Commenting
- Save changes for follow-up
- Track changes management
- Merge and compare documents
- Shared document protection
- Document password protection
- Share a document
- Finalize a document
Find out more
- Letters
- Manage application preferences
- Statistics, document properties
- Macro commands
- Word document conversion
- Form creation
- Protecting and using a form
- File versioning and recovery
- Worth knowing : Customizing the Ribbon
- What you need to know : Word processing best practices
Additional modules
Word 2021
Digital book: This module allows you to consult a digital course material.
Microsoft Office: use cases
Excel, Word or PowerPoint with a Microsoft 365 subscription
Video: This module contains a 23-minute video.
- Office with or without a Microsoft 365 subscription: what are the differences?
- Creating and saving Office documents on OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Teams
- Edit Office documents from OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams
- Share Office documents with colleagues or people outside your organization
- Co-edit files
Complete online self-paced training. Accessible anytime from anywhere. One year access to the training and the digital book.
Private or personalized training
If you have more than 8 people to sign up for a particular course, it can be delivered as a private session right at your offices. Contact us for more details.
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