MS Word intermediate

Why take this course

You already know the basics of Word and want to take your skills to the next level? This training will help you efficiently format documents, manage large files, create tables of contents, footnotes, tables, and forms. You will also learn to use mail merge and securely share files in the Microsoft 365 cloud.

What you’ll learn

• Efficiently format complex documents
• Use styles, tables, footnotes, and tables of contents
• Create and protect forms
• Perform mail merge – including conditional and formatted merges
• Work with Word in the cloud and use document version history

Certification & Exam

Participants receive a personalized certificate confirming completion of the intermediate-level MS Word course. There is no final exam – active participation in the sessions is sufficient.

Who is this course for

• People with a solid knowledge of MS Word basics
• Office and administrative staff
• Assistants, secretaries, and document specialists
• Those preparing offers, forms, and mass mail documents
• Anyone wanting to increase productivity in MS Word

Topics covered

1. Document formatting

• Fonts and their correct use, indentation, and the hard space
• Paragraphs
• Format painter
• Bullet points and numbered lists – correct use in practice
• Hidden characters
• How to control the place where the image is displayed
• Various ways to wrap an image with text

2. Tables

• Tables as a way of arranging elements on a page
• Letterhead
• Creating headers and footers – advanced features

3. Working with large documents:

• Tabs and leading characters
• Creating style and formatting a document with them
• Creating tables of contents
• Creating footnotes
• Creating a custom numbering form including an outline
• Embedding objects in a document
• Inserting charts

4. Spelling

• Spell check, creating custom dictionaries, attaching dictionaries
• Thesaurus
• Text translation

5. Security

• Marking a final version of a document
• Password protection
• Cleaning up document metadata
• Protecting against changes

6. Preparing a reproducible document

• Using styles
• Layout of document content using fields
• Quick parts – creation and use

7. Serial correspondence

• Creation rules
• Preparation of the main document
• Data sources
• inserting serial correspondence fields
• Using the If… then… else field
• Viewing and filtering data sources
• Previewing results
• Merging a file

8. Extended use of serial correspondence

• Changing the format of merged data.
• Formatting using field codes.
• Saving merged documents for later use.

9. Formants

• Creating text fields and embedding them within a document
• Simple formulas
• Creating forms and offers

10. Microsoft 365 cloud-based work

• Version history
• Sharing files with non-Microsoft Office users
• Sharing files in the cloud
• Converting speech to text