Learn Word 2021 basics: text editing, formatting, layout, and essential features
Discover Word word processing and master text entry, formatting and page layout. Insert tables, images and graphics into your documents. You'll also be able to design and produce mailings.
Is it for you ?
Beginners or users with some basic knowledge who need to master the fundamental Word commands.
Prerequisites
No knowledge of Word is necessary. You just need to be familiar with the keyboard and mouse.
What You'll Walk Away With
- ✓ Create and format simple documents using text, paragraphs, and basic styles
- ✓ Structure documents with layout, headers, footers, and page numbering
- ✓ Manage content efficiently with copy-paste, search, and autocorrect
- ✓ Insert and organize tables and visual elements within documents
- ✓ Perform basic mail merges to automate document creation
Training content
Essential modules
1 Word 2021 - Level 1: Essential knowledge
This module offers interactive training with 55 training videos, 55 practice exercises and 6 additional information points.
2 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
3 Apply a minimal layout to text
- Did you know? Character formatting
- Apply a quick style
- Applying a theme
- Character highlighting
- Character color
- Character break
- Font and font size
4 Present paragraphs, reorganize text
- Paragraph indentation
- Paragraph alignment
- Paragraph spacing
- Line spacing
- Borders and backgrounds
- Moving text
- Copy text
5 Layout, pagination and printing
- Page layout
- Zoom display
- Printing
- Page break
- Good to know : Header and footer
- Header and footer
- Page numbering
6 Managing tabs and lists
- Inserting 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
- First line negative indent
7 Discover the essential 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 display and windows
8 Word 2021 - Level 2: Intermediate skills
This module offers interactive training with 41 training videos, 41 practice exercises and 1 additional information point.
9 Avoid tedious typing
- Creating an automatic insert
- Using an automatic insert
- Managing automatic insertions
- System date and time
10 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
11 Enhance your texts with graphic elements
- Drawing an object
- Resizing/rotating/adjusting
- Moving/copying a drawing object
- Formatting a drawing object
- Text in a drawing object/WordArt
- Formatting text in an object/WordArt
- Inserting an image
- Managing an image
- Positioning and wrapping an image
- Captions and table of figures
- Document background
- Chart
- Inserting an object from another application
- Diagram
12 Print an envelope or create a mailing
- Creating an envelope or an address label
- Good to know: Mail merge
- Mailing: linking a list to a document
- Inserting fields in a mailing
- Running a mailing
- Modifying recipients
- Adding and deleting recipients
- Sorting a recipient list
- Selecting records to print
- Conditional text in a mailing
- Preparing labels by mail merge
- Variable data document
13 Additional modules
Word 2021
E-book: This module offers access to a digital course manual.
14 Word 2021 – Level 3: Advanced knowledge
This module offers interactive training consisting of 45 training videos, 45 practice exercises, and 4 additional information sections.
Microsoft Office: use cases
Excel, Word, or PowerPoint with a Microsoft 365 subscription
Video: This module offers access to a 23-minute video.
- Office with or without a Microsoft 365 subscription: what are the differences?
- Create and save Office documents on OneDrive, SharePoint Online, or Teams
- Edit an Office document from OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams
- Share Office documents with collaborators or people outside the organization
- Co-author files
📌 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