Beautiful design inspiration for your next Word doc

Course contents
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How to create a company template 2:20
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How to make an interactive form 10:13
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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, in this video we're going to look at getting started with a monthly newsletter for a company. Now it's going to be a lot more tools that we're going to learn, but also there's a lot more creativity that goes into it. So if you are maybe new to design, or at least, like me, get a bit stuck, doing the same old stuff, you need inspiration, probably the quickest and easiest way is to look to people that are already making beautiful stuff, see what they do, and-- We're not going to copy, but we're going to kind of use it as inspiration for our own stuff. You'll find like--

I like the term appropriation. By the time you kind of look at the format, you're like, “I like that,” you changed your fonts, you used your color, your images, your content, it's inspired by, but it's not a direct copy of.

The way to get inspiration for your next Word document is to look at great graphic designers, and often, this site here, behance.net is where people, where designers go and post their portfolios. Really good stuff. You could use Google images, the problem with Google images is that, just that much trash in there as there's good stuff, whereas Behance tends to have really amazing, beautiful stuff. 

So, come into here, over here on the right, type in 'Search'. You can put in 'company newsletter', or whatever you're looking for, a letterhead, but often I find, the easiest one to go to is 'annual report'. I know we're not making annual report, but it's the one that people spend a lot of money on, and often have a lot of copy to deal with, and can be really good kind of inspiration for us. Then you can start going through, and either hold down the control key, and click on a few of them, so-- 

He looks good. If I hold down ‘Control’ while I'm clicking, you can see, they kind of open up in their own tabs. You can just go through one by one, up to you. I'm just kind of going through things I like the look of, and then just start going through, and saying, "Do I like this?" I like the font, I like this kind of Slab Serif here. It's really cool, spacing after, it's really cool when there's white on black ink. You might not be able to do white on blacks, you might do something similar, but with black text on a white background. That's kind of cool, they've done this columns with the column style.

So, this is the kind of inspiration that I'll sift through, and go through and say, "I like that, I like that." What do I like about it? This is quite cool, it's all gray scale, and it keeps printing cost down, and if you use that corporate color, you might switch over to your corporate color, your fonts. I like it how it kind of splits across pages. Now I'm just kind of waffling, but you get the idea.

Go through these things, find the stuff you like. That's really cool, that's kind of slabbyy color, but a gradient going on, and then, once you get an idea what you want to do, you can start building yours in Word, and that's what we're going to do in the very next video.

So, inspiration’s done, let's get making.

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