Microsoft Word 2016 shortcuts and cheat sheet

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.

Downloads & Exercise files

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Transcript

Tip no. 1; I've styled my first heading, but I've got to apply it to this really long document, click anywhere in the heading, go 'Control Shift C', click anywhere in the headings you want it to go to, 'Control Shift V'. Super easy to apply it to lots of different things as you're working through a document. Thank you, Microsoft Word, you're awesome!

Tip no. 2; I've got a PDF, it can't be opened, it's all fixed, or can it. I can right click it, go to 'Open with', 'Microsoft Word', Microsoft Word's going to say, 'Would you like to convert it into a Word document?', you say, no way, yes way. And now, all the text is fully editable, and when you're finished, you can hit 'Save', and decide to keep it as a Word document, or back out as a PDF. Thank you, Word.

Tip no.3; I've designed a cover page, I've done my contents page, and I'm about to style my body copy. I don't have the copy yet, so I want some place holder text, so instead of going out to lipsum.com - we all love that site - we're going to go equals, and we're going to type in lorem, and in these brackets here we're going to type in how many paragraphs we want, I want 150, '=lorem(150)’. At the end here, hit 'return', holy Molly, easy peasy, mixed up latin words that I can use as place holder text until I get my real copy. Great, on to the next tip.

Tip no. 4; I want this price, and I want this price, so I try and drag across them both, but it grabs everything in between. What if there was a way I could do random selections? Watch this. Select the first one, hold down 'Control Shift', and then click this other one, look at that. And maybe just this one for fun. Hit 'Copy', 'New Document', and you can see, it just brings through the bits I had selected. Great tip. Next one, please.

Working on a document like this newsletter, and the file size is really big, so you got lots of images in it. We want to lower the file size of this Word document, we can do that by clicking any one of the images, go up to 'Format',  then there's this option that says 'Compress Pictures'. Now, untick the one that says 'Apply to just this picture', I'm going to get it to apply to all the pictures, and I pick a size, I'm going to go down to 'email size', click 'OK', hit 'Save', and check your file size, it will be a lot smaller. On to the next tip.

Tip no. 6; this one is to do with measurements, especially when you're dealing with Imperial and Metric changes all the time, like I am. I know that this box here needs to be 9cms high, but if I look under 'Format', I can see that it's in inches, and I have no idea what the conversion rate is, but what I can do is, select the inches here, type in '9cm', and I can click out anywhere, can you see, it does the conversion for me. It's now converted it into the exact inches measurement. You can do the exact same thing with pixels or points, and it's not just to do with height and width, any box in Word that has any sort of measurements you can just type it in, and it will convert it for you. Thanks Microsoft.

The last tip, and this one is how to change the font size. If I select this heading here, I can hit 'Control Shift', and then full stop, '.' to make it bigger, and comma, ',' to make it smaller. 'Control B' makes it bold, 'Control I' makes it italics. 

All right, that is the end of our Tips and Tricks for Microsoft Word.

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