Adding images that don’t move along with the text in Word 2016

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Course contents
SECTION: 5
How to create a company template 2:20
SECTION: 8
How to make an interactive form 10:13
SECTION: 9
Creating personalized letters using Mail merge 4:34
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

Hi there, in this tutorial we're going to look at putting in images that kind of fix to the page and don't move along. So this guy here, he's fixed, watch this, I can type in anything and it all stays there, he doesn't move around with the type. So let's go and look at how to do that.

First thing I need to do is place the image. So I'm going to put a 'return' in here between these two paragraphs, and I'm going to go to 'Insert', 'Pictures', and I'm going to bring in—these are the files that we're using under '02 Newsletter', you can download the exercise files as well for free if you want to play along. Go to 'Adobe Max', actually no, it's the 'UX Course' that we're using for this one. Goes in, matches the column width, you can resize it by using the corners; remember, don't use the sides because it stretches it, but the corners are great.

At the moment though, it kind of flows along with the text, so what I want to do is, get it so that the text kind of moves, and the image doesn't, stays where it is. So, there's a couple of ways. It's this way, so 'With Wrapping', I click this first option, and it kind of does what I want. It means that I can move this guy around, and you'll notice that, if I put a 'return' here, it doesn't move, well, kind of doesn't move. What happens is, with it selected, see that anchor point, that's where it's kind of anchored to the text. So it's position is relative to this, it's kind of this far across, and a little bit down. Problem is, down here, it's great, because it's after the anchor, but if I put a 'return' in up here, it flows along with the text though. What I want to do is, I want this option in here, and I want this, so with it selected-- I want this option down here that says 'Fix Position on Page', so, we're going to put 'Square', and then we're going to say, 'Fixed'. So we've got some text wrapping, but we're going to say 'Fix position on page'. What that will do is that it won’t move around. 

So, if I select this one here, and hit 'return', you can see, the anchor doesn't move, well the anchor does move, but the image doesn't, its position is kind of fixed there. So that would be great if you want like a pull quote in the middle, or there's a diagram that just can't move because it's specific for this page or all these titles. 

I'm going to 'undo' that because what I want in this particular case, I want this to 'In Line with Text', and-- where's the next image? So, 'Adobe Max', I'm going to put in-- I don't have my first paragraph, let's put him in, and then, maybe after here I'm going to put in my next image. You can just skip along now, I'm just kind of filling in the rest of this document, so we can move on. Adobe Max goes in.

Last thing I want to do before I move on is, there's this random space in here, can’t remember where he came from, I'll get rid of that guy, and I've got this heading that's at the bottom of this page, I want to push him to the next page. I could put 'return's in, but that's not the clever way of doing it, because, if you add different texts or delete text it's still not going to work, it might come up and down. So with the cursor flashing just in front of this heading here, go to 'Insert', there's one called 'Page Break'. 

For some reason I made this guy my first paragraph, I'm just setting it back to normal, and what I want to do is, with the page break, you might want to do a column break. Let's say this one here, we want to push to the next-- actually page break will work again. Let's say this one here is-- just happens to be—copy, paste, paste. It’s just kind of like all good down the bottom here. I don't want a page break, because I don't want to push it to the next page, I just want a column break, so it’s in the same sort of position. Cursor at the beginning here, go to 'Insert', instead of page break, go to 'Layout', and there's this one called 'Breaks', and you'll find 'Page Break' in there, but there's also someone called 'Column Break', and that just puts it to the next column. It's up to you how you want to work. I'm going to 'undo', mine was actually looking just fine, let's 'Save' it, and let's get on to our next tutorial video. 

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