Microsoft Word 2016 Bootcamp - Zero to Hero Training

Add a Drop Cap or big first letter in Microsoft Word 2016

Course contents
SECTION: 1
Overview 3:10
SECTION: 2
Creating a formal business letter 27:18
SECTION: 3
Monthly company newsletter 1:00:03
1. Beautiful design inspiration for your next Word doc
2:46
2. Creating a monthly company newsletter
6:05
3. Adding and cropping images in Microsoft Word 2016
2:29
4. Adding your corporate colors to Word as default
2:29
5. Fixing and coloring images in Microsoft Word 2016
2:59
6. Installing new fonts into Word 2016 from Google Fonts FREE
6:38
7. How to set your default fonts in Microsoft Word 2016
1:34
8. How to change line height, lines spacing and space after in Microsoft Word 2016
3:01
9. Add a Drop Cap or big first letter in Microsoft Word 2016 FREE
1:47
10. Adding a colored column or text box in Microsoft Word 2016
8:54
11. Creating a 2 column layout on the second page in Word
3:32
12. How to change heading 1 style Microsoft Word 2016
2:19
13. How to make our own custom style in Word 2016
1:53
14. Adding images that don’t move along with the text in Word 2016
3:48
15. Adding a pull quote in Microsoft Word 2016
5:29
16. How to put text around the edge of a circle - type on a path Word 2016
4:20
SECTION: 4
Formatting a long business report 58:32
1. Formatting a long business report in Microsoft Word 2016
4:53
2. Creating a company template in Word 2016 using Style Sets
4:47
3. Remove double returns, double line spacing, double line breaks in Word 2016
2:45
4. Start page numbers on page 2 or page 3 in MIcrosoft Word
2:27
5. How to add a page break and column break in Microsoft Word 2016
6:59
6. Adding headers to certain pages only in Microsoft Word
4:55
7. Word 2016 table of contents tutorial FREE
3:57
8. How to create bulleted list and numbered lists in Microsoft Word 2016 FREE
2:30
9. Create first paragraph indents in Word 2016
2:32
10. How to use tabs in Microsoft Word 2016
4:51
11. Adding a graph in Microsoft Word 2016
4:35
12. Linking an Excel spreadsheet with Word 2016
5:16
13. Creating an infographic or flowchart or diagram in Word 2016 - Smart Art
3:56
14. How to save and reuse snippets of text in Microsoft Word 2016 - Quick parts
1:51
15. How to add and adjust comments in Word 2016
2:18
SECTION: 5
How to create a company template 2:20
SECTION: 6
Creating a timetable schedule using tables 10:19
SECTION: 7
Product overview PDF with interactivity 17:55
SECTION: 8
How to make an interactive form 10:13
SECTION: 9
Creating personalized letters using Mail merge 4:34
SECTION: 10
Next Steps 1:12
SECTION: 11
Cheat sheet & shortcuts 3:23

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Course info

52 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Hi there, in this Word tutorial course we’re going to learn Microsoft Word together. This is a project based course.

We’ll work through real world documents such as a formal business letter, monthly newsletter, a really long business report, a timetable and a visually exciting interactive PDF product document.

Projects included:

  • Creating a formal business letter

  • Creating a monthly company newsletter

  • Formatting a long business report, adding charts & graphs from Excel

  • Creating a timetable schedule using tables

  • Creating a company template using corporate fonts, colours & images

  • Creating a product overview PDF with basic interactivity

  • Creating a business form

  • Printing personalised letterheads & envelopes for client lists

This course is for beginners. You don’t need any previous knowledge of Word or any desktop publishing experience. We will start right at the basics but quickly get into working with up to date modern features.

You’ll work with images, logos & specific company colours. You’ll create corporate templates and reusable styles - automatically personalizing them using Mail Merge.

You’ll learn to make a monthly newsletter with links & videos ready for sharing & commenting. You’ll learn how to take charge of long documents; cleaning them up and adding professional graphs, infographics, tables and much more including exercise files. We will give you a printable 'cheat sheet'.

I will be around to help.If you get lost you can drop a comment on the video 'Questions and Answers' section that is below every video & I'll be sure to get back to you.

So my friend, now is your time to go from Word Zero, to Word Hero and for you to become the Microsoft Word professional in your office.


What are the requirements?

  • This course is for absolute beginners

  • You'll need a copy of Microsoft Word 2016.

  • No previous Word or desktop publishing skills are necessary.

What am I going to learn from this course?

  • How to work with your specific company fonts & colours.

  • Format text like a professional.

  • Work with various images, styles and implementations.

  • Save documents to older versions of Word.

  • How to save as a PDF.

  • How to make an interactive form.

  • Where to get inspiration for your design.

  • How to install new fonts.

  • Work with multiple column layouts.

  • How to personalise letters & envelopes from a list.

  • Adjust heading styles.

  • Work with really long text documents.

  • How to create a table of contents automatically.

  • How to work with bullets & numbering.

  • How to master tabs.

  • Create beautiful graphics & diagrams.

  • How to make an infographic.

  • How to work closely with Microsoft Excel.

  • How to work with comments & changes.

  • How to share you documents with others.

  • How to build your own company templates.

  • How to work with tables.

  • How to add videos to you documents.

  • You’ll get a cheat sheet, shortcuts and much, much more…

Who is the target audience?

  • Yes: This course is for people who need to learn Microsoft Word for work.

  • Yes: This course is perfect for people who need to upgrade their skills for their CV and job applications.

  • Yes: This course is for complete beginners and for people who know the basics of Word already.

  • No: This course is NOT for people who have advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word.

  • No:This is for PC version of Word 2016. (While 90% of this course will work on a Mac and in early versions of Word no guarantees can be made.)

Course duration 3 hours 18 mins

 

Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

In this tutorial we're going to put a giant letter at the beginning of a paragraph. They're called a drop cap, and we're going to go make it, and we're actually going to pick a different font style to make it look fancy. All right, let's go and do it now.

To add a drop cap, I'm going to have my cursor flashing, kind of anywhere in this first paragraph, because that’s where I want it to be. You can have it at the beginning if you really want to, but anywhere is fine. Then we're going over to ‘Insert’, and all the way down over here is 'Drop Cap'. Remember, if you're using a different version of Word, or actually your screen size is different, it might be at a slightly different spot, remember, if I shrink this up, it all gets kind of jammed up into here, and that's the one I'm looking for. 

I'm going to go to the big version, 'Drop Cap', and we're going to-- if you hover above you can see, giant L. 'Margin' does something kind of different, it kind of pops it into the left hand side there which is not what I want in this case, so I'm going to 'Dropped'. You can go to 'Drop Cap' options, and decide how many you wanted to drop, so I'm going to go to 'Dropped', and I'm going to decide on how many lines, I'm going to go '3', and I'm going to pick a different font. So I want to pick-- what am I going to pick? I have no idea. I'm going to pick 'Times New Roman', and click 'OK'.

It's a big kind of like Serif font, looks kind of cool often, offset against Sans Serif font, which is this body copy here. Serif fonts, just so you know, these little bits that hang off the top, these little, like feet, and things that poke off, they're called Serifs. And Sans Serif, Sans is like, info without, so without little feet. It's just that little square ones that don't have all those little extra bits. 

Anyway, that is how to add a drop cap in Microsoft Word.

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