Create first paragraph indents 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

Hello wonderful Word people, in this tutorial we're going to look at doing our first line indent for our paragraph, we're even going to make it fancier, and look italics, fancier still, we're going to turn it into a style so we can reuse it through a really long document, over and over again. Let's go and do it.

It's pretty easy. If you wanted to do the whole paragraph you can click anywhere in your first paragraph, and you can use these options here, 'increase', 'decrease'. We want to increase it, pushes it over to the right, not quite what we want. What we want to do is just do the first line, so cursor anywhere in your first paragraph, what we're going to do is, under that tab is-- no, actually we're looking for this one here, 'Line and Paragraph Spacing', drop this down, go to one that says 'Line Spacing', and along here it says 'Indentation', we're going to use this one that says 'Special', 'First line', and we're going to push-- can you see it, it's kind of given us a little preview of where it's going to push this in. Half an inch works for me, I'm going to click 'OK', and that is how you indent a first line. This technique is used quite a bit when you're dealing with long documents, just that it's easy and visually easy to see where the first paragraph is. The title's there but this gives us an extra cue to know that this is our first paragraph.

The other thing we're going to do, and quite common, is we're going to set this one to italics, so I'm going to use 'Italics'. We're going to set a paragraph style as well. So what we need to do is-- I'm going to pop this out, I'm going to say 'New Style' down the bottom here, I'm going to get this one called 'First Para', and I'm going to click 'OK', and then I'm going to use it throughout my document. I'm going to go there, and then click 'First Para', or use the option up here, and just go through and connect all of this up, throughout the whole thing. 

That's it, I'm going to carry on doing this, but that's how to do your first indent. You can see here, it's pushed on the wrong page. We did this, we did column breaks, which is not working enough right now, so I'm going to have to lift that up. I’m enjoying column break now. That’s what I did in this tutorial, push him down, but anyway-- You, you, you, first paragraph. Exciting stuff. And you can carry on to the next video now while I finish this up.

All right, on to the next video.

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