Course objectives

• Get easy-to-follow guidance from a certified Microsoft Office Specialist Master
• Learn and practice new skills while working with sample content, or look up specific procedures
• Create visually appealing documents for school, business, community, or personal purposes
• Use built-in tools to capture and edit graphics
• Present data in tables, diagrams, and charts
• Track and compile reference materials
• Manage document collaboration and review
• Fix privacy, accessibility, and compatibility issues
• Supercharge your efficiency by creating custom styles, themes, and templates

Course content

Introduction
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Part 1: Get started with Word 2019

• Chapter 1: Word 2016 basics
  Start Word
  Work in the Word user interface
  Sidebar: About Office
  Identify app window elements
  Sidebar: Tell me what you want to do
  Work with the ribbon and status bar
  Sidebar: Adapt procedure steps
  Manage Office and app settings
  Sidebar: Microsoft account options
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 2: Create and manage documents
  Create documents
  Open and move around in documents
  Open existing documents
  Sidebar: Open documents in Protected view
  Sidebar: Edit PDF files in Word
  Move around in documents
  Display different views of documents
  Display and edit file properties
  Save and close documents
  Manually save documents
  Sidebar: Save files to OneDrive
  Automatically save documents
  Save documents in other formats
  Sidebar: Maintain compatibility with earlier versions of Word
  Close documents
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 3: Enter and edit text
  Enter and import text
  Sidebar: Import text from multiple documents
  Move, copy, and delete text
  Sidebar: Paste options
  Find and replace text
  Use reference and research tools
  Sidebar: Install Office tools
  Sidebar: Display document statistics
  Skills review
  Practice tasks

Part 2: Create professional documents

• Chapter 4: Modify the structure and appearance of text
  Apply paragraph formatting
  Configure alignment
  Set vertical spacing
  Configure indents
  Sidebar: Configure paragraph borders and shading
  Structure content manually
  Apply character format
  Sidebar: Character formatting and case considerations
  Create and modify lists
  Sidebar: Format text as you type
  Apply built-in styles to text
  Apply styles
  Manage outline levels
  Change the document theme
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 5: Organize information in columns and tables
  Present information in columns
  Create tabbed lists
  Present information in tables
  Sidebar: Insert an Excel spreadsheet
  Sidebar: Other table layout options
  Format tables
  Sidebar: Quick Tables
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 6: Add simple graphic elements
  Insert, move, and resize pictures
  Sidebar: Graphic formats
  Edit and format pictures
  Sidebar: Add video content to documents
  Insert screen clippings
  Draw and modify shapes
  Draw and add text to shapes
  Sidebar: Use the drawing canvas to draw shapes
  Sidebar: Locate additional formatting commands
  Move and modify shapes
  Format shapes
  Sidebar: Insert symbols
  Add WordArt text
  Skills review
  Sidebar: Format the first letter of a paragraph as a drop cap
  Practice tasks

Part 3: Enhance document content

• Chapter 7: Insert and modify diagrams
  Create diagrams
  Modify diagrams
  Create picture diagrams
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 8: Insert and modify charts
  Create charts
  Modify charts
  Manage chart data
  Modify the display of chart elements
  Sidebar: Pie charts
  Format charts
  Skills review
  Sidebar: Custom chart templates
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 9: Add visual elements
  Format the page background
  Insert a background watermark
  Insert headers, footers, and page numbers
  Insert preformatted document parts
  Sidebar: Insert and link custom text boxes
  Build equations
  Sidebar: The Equation Options dialog box
  Skills review
  Sidebar: Set mathematical AutoCorrect options
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 10: Organize and arrange content
  Reorganize document outlines
  Manage content in the Navigation pane
  Manage content in Outline view
  Arrange objects on a page
  Use tables to control page layout
  Skills review
  Practice tasks

Part 4: Review and finalize documents

• Chapter 11: Collaborate on documents
  Mark up documents
  Insert comments
  Track changes
  Display and review document markup
  display markup
  Review and respond to comments
  Review and process tracked changes
  Sidebar: Remember to check for errors
  Compare and merge documents
  Compare and combine separate copies of a document
  Compare separate versions of a document
  Control content changes
  Restrict actions
  Restrict access by using a password
  Sidebar: Restrict access by using rights management
  Coauthor documents
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 12: Finalize and distribute documents
  Locate and correct text errors
  Preview and adjust page layout
  Control what appears on each page
  Prepare documents for electronic distribution
  Sidebar: Accessibility issues
  Print and send documents
  Skills review
  Practice tasks

Part 5: Use advanced Word functions

• Chapter 13: Reference content and content sources
  Insert bookmarks and cross-references
  Sidebar: Hyperlink to additional resources
  Display document information in fields
  Insert and modify footnotes and endnotes
  Create and modify tables of contents
  Sidebar: Other reference tables
  Create and modify indexes
  Cite sources and compile bibliographies
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 14: Merge data with documents and labels
  Understand the mail merge process
  Start the mail merge process
  Get started with letters
  Get started with labels
  Get started with email messages
  Choose and refine the data source
  Select an existing data source
  Create a new data source
  Refine the data source records
  Sidebar: Refresh data
  Insert merge fields
  Preview and complete the merge
  Create individual envelopes and labels
  Generate individual envelopes
  Generate individual mailing labels
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 15: Create custom document elements
  Create and modify styles
  Create and manage custom themes
  Create and attach templates
  Create custom building blocks
  Skills review
  Practice tasks
• Chapter 16: Customize options and the user interface
  Change default Word options
  Manage general Office and Word options
  Manage display options
  Manage proofing options
  Manage file saving options
  Manage language options
  Manage advanced options
  Customize the Quick Access Toolbar
  Customize the ribbon
  Manage add-ins and security options
  Manage add-ins
  Configure Trust Center options
  Skills review
  Practice tasks