Teaching Word
Word is so ubiquitous that I know it drives some people nuts, but it's
so helpful when you know how it works. To the untrained user, it has lots of
quirks which make some uses of it quite frustrating, but really, behind the
scenes, it's remarkably simple. Like most applications, however, you do
need to know how it works in order to harness its power.
- Basics
- Useful tools
- Features
- Entering text, navigating & views, undo/redo, cut/copy/paste
- Character formatting versus Paragraph formatting
- Text editing (overtype, spell and grammar checking)
- Printing and page setup
- Find/replace
- Inserting symbols
- Using the Format Painter,
- Multiple page documents (page and section breaks, columns)
- AutoCorrect and AutoFormat tools
- Setting language
- Tabs and indents
- Tables and borders
- Styles
- Creating a table of contents and index
- Mail Merge
- Working with graphics
- Charting and linking from Excel