Advanced Microsoft Word

Advanced Microsoft Word

About This Course

Step your Word processing skills up a notch with our Advanced Microsoft Word Training course, designed to equip you with the tools you need for handling complex documents efficiently. Whether you’re managing lengthy business reports, collaborating with colleagues, or integrating extensive data, this course provides the expertise needed to master Word’s advanced features.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for students who have intermediate skills with Microsoft Word 2019 who want to learn more advanced skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course in the 2019 interface.

At Course Completion

We begin with Working with Long Documents, where you’ll learn the ins and outs of creating and maintaining a Table of Contents, adding cross references, footnotes, and endnotes. This section also guides you through inserting citations and creating a comprehensive bibliography, adding an index, and including a Table of Figures and Authorities. Practical exercises will reinforce your skills, such as inserting and updating a Table of Contents and practicing footnotes.
Next, step into the collaborative space with our Reviewing and Collaborating on Documents lesson. You’ll discover how to add comments and track changes, providing real-time feedback and edits on documents. Exercises focus on viewing, accepting, and rejecting changes, fostering an efficient review process. You’ll also explore sharing options to ensure your documents can be accessed and edited by the right colleagues.
In Comparing and Combining Documents, you’ll master the tools to compare multiple versions of a document and merge changes seamlessly. Practical exercises will guide you through document comparison and combination, ensuring you can consolidate feedback from multiple sources effortlessly.
The Forms lesson covers the Developer Tab and using various content controls like date pickers, plain text, drop-down lists, check boxes, and rich text. You’ll also learn to restrict editing to certain form fields, enabling you to create and protect interactive forms efficiently. Hands-on exercises will solidify these skills with practical applications.
Our Managing Mailings lesson teaches you how to create envelopes and labels, as well as leverage mail merge for personalized bulk communications. Exercises in printing envelopes and using mail merge will provide you with the practical know-how to handle mailings with precision and ease.
In the Protecting Documents section, you’ll learn to enhance the security of your documents by marking them as final, adding passwords, removing metadata, and restricting formatting and editing. You’ll also explore watermarking options, with exercises to practice adding custom watermarks to maintain document integrity.
Finally, unleash the power of automation with our Macros lesson. You’ll understand how to use and record macros to streamline repetitive tasks, with practical exercises guiding you through the macro recording process.
By the end of this course, you and your team will have a robust command of advanced Microsoft Word features, empowering you to handle complex documents with professionalism and ease. These skills will streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and ensure document security, making your business operations more efficient and effective.
Word Version: This course primarily targets Word 365 and Word 2021; however, we draw attention to features that are not supported in earlier versions of Word, and point out alternative options, when available.