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In Word 2007: Mail Merge in Depth, author Gini Courter demonstrates how to take advantage of Word's Mail Merge feature to save a tremendous amount of time creating customized documents. The course offers tutorials on creating letters, emails, envelopes, and labels. It also shows how to use Mail Merge with Outlook and Excel, creating data sources, inserting fields, using IF and other rules for customized merges, and troubleshooting Mail Merge issues. Exercise files are included with the course.

In Word 2007: Styles in Depth, author Mariann Siegert shows how to take advantage of Word styles to make professional documents. The course starts off with a demonstration of the benefits of using styles and then shows how to apply, create, and modify styles to suit individual needs. More advanced topics include creating a table of contents from styles, using Quick Styles and style sets, sorting and hiding styles, restricting styles in protected documents, using keyboard shortcuts for styles, and much more. Exercise files are included with the course.

In Word 2008 for Mac Essential Training, instructor David Rivers examines each important feature of this ubiquitous word processing software. David explores the Word 2008 for Mac interface, goes over simple tasks such as creating and saving documents, and delves into advanced editing, formatting, and layout features. He also teaches how to proof documents, use the powerful Mail Merge Manager, and share, print, and collaborate on projects.

One of the most powerful features of Microsoft Word 2010 is mail merge, which is simple in principle, but sometimes tricky in execution. In this workshop Tim Grey takes you step by step through the process of creating a mail merge. Learn how to prepare your source data, create a document, and merge the two to create individualized letters, envelopes, labels, and more. Along the way, gain an understanding of the options available to you when creating a mail merge in Word and gain confidence in your ability to create even complex mail merges with minimal effort.

In Word 2010 Essential Training, Gini Courter uses real-world examples to teach the core features and tools in Word 2010. The course starts off with an orientation of the Word 2010 interface, and then delves into the functionality at the heart of Word: creating, editing, and formatting documents. It also covers proofing documents, reviewing documents with others, sharing and securing documents, working with tables, and illustrating documents. Exercise files are included with the course.

In this course, author Gini Courter introduces the form creation tools found in Word 2010 and shows how to produce electronic forms that are visually pleasing and easy to navigate. The course covers designing a form; capturing data effectively with dropdown lists, date pickers, and check boxes; and adding controls for repeating data using the Word Content Control Toolkit. The course also includes tutorials on testing, protecting, and distributing forms.

Prerequisite Course: Word 2010 Essential Training

In Word 2010: Mail Merge in Depth, author Gini Courter demonstrates how to take advantage of Word's Mail Merge feature to save a tremendous amount of time creating customized documents. The course offers tutorials on creating letters, emails, envelopes, and labels. It also shows how to use Mail Merge with Outlook and Excel, creating data sources, inserting fields, using IF and other rules for customized merges, and troubleshooting Mail Merge issues. Exercise files are included with the course.

Learn how to use Word styles to help save time in creating consistent and well-designed documents. Author Mariann Siegert demonstrates how to create, apply, and modify styles, as well as how to format documents with styles. The course also covers generating tables of contents, building Quick Styles and style sets, and restricting styles in protected documents.

In this course, author Alicia Katz Pollock shares the keyboard shortcuts, workflows, and commands that can transform the casual Word 2010 user into a pro. This course covers helpful and lesser-known techniques for making document navigation, content creation, formatting, layout, working with data, graphics integration, and publishing easier. Alicia also includes her favorite top 10 formatting tips in Word, from clearing existing formatting to inserting lines and creating abbreviations with AutoCorrect.

See how to use Word 2013 features for authoring reports, white papers, books, and other long documents. First, author Maria Langer explains considerations unique to long documents, before providing best practices and smart strategies for planning your approach. Then see how to set up a logical, effective structure with outlines and master pages, which will help organize your ideas while automatically generating a table of contents, a bibliography, and other document elements. Find out how to add reference items such as cross-references, footnotes, and indexes to guide readers through your work, and place images, tables, and other graphics. Finally, learn about numbering chapters, sections, and pages; adding headers and footers; and formatting and exporting your final document.

Start building better documents with Microsoft Word. In this course, author David Rivers teaches you the basics of creating, editing, and formatting documents in Word 2013. Discover how to leverage templates and building blocks to create a stylish document with instant purpose; collaborate with other writers and editors; create numbered and bulleted lists; and work with tables. Plus, learn to automate these tasks with macros, and use the proofing tools in Word to check spelling and grammar and more.

Take advantage of Word's Mail Merge feature to save time building customized documents. This course offers tutorials on creating personalized letters, envelopes, labels, and even email messages. Author Gini Courter shows how to connect to data sources in Access, Outlook, and Excel; create new data sources; add attachments to merged email messages; use IF…THEN…ELSE and other rules for advanced mail merges; and troubleshoot Mail Merge issues.

Learn how to use Word styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents. Author Gini Courter demonstrates the benefit of styles and shows how to create, apply, and modify a variety of style types, from paragraph styles to list styles. More advanced topics include generating a dynamic table of contents from styles, using Quick Styles and style sets, restricting formatting and document use with styles, using keyboard shortcuts, and much more.

If you know how to use templates, you can become much more efficient in Word. In this course, Gini Courter helps you get the most out of templates in Word 2013. She shows how to find, open, and customize the thousands of existing templates, as well as how to transform your own documents into templates you can reuse again and again. Next, explore template styling and ways of locking down certain areas of a document to keep users from editing them. Then discover how to share templates—via email, a network, and SharePoint—and dig into advanced features, including building blocks, content codes, and add-ins.

You already know the basics of Word 2013. Ready to take your skills to the next level? Unlock the full capabilities of this powerful word processor with advanced tips, tricks, and shortcuts from author Maria Langer. First, explore five tips you should know regardless of how you use Word, including tips for selecting text and changing the document view. Then dive into shortcuts for managing files, entering and editing text, formatting documents, and publishing.

Improve your productivity and efficiency in Microsoft Word with these useful tips on some of the most overlooked features in Word 2016. See how to use Word Online, set defaults for new documents, and stay up to date with the frequent changes to Word. Author Nick Brazzi also delves into specialized text formatting and provides other helpful tips for working with nonprinting characters, revealing formatting, customizing the spell-check dictionary, password-protecting documents, and more.

Note: These tutorials apply to both the Windows and Mac versions of Word 2016.

Discover how to use Microsoft Word 2016 features to give business proposals, technical reports, white papers, and other long documents a compelling format. Instructor Gini von Courter begins the course by going over how to create a master document and set up a logical, effective structure with outlines. She then discusses how to add reference items such as cross-references, footnotes, and indexes to guide readers through your work, and demonstrates smart ways to use captions and citations. Plus, she shares how to number chapters, sections, and pages; insert headers and footers; and add the finishing touches to your final document.

Discover how to use Microsoft Word 2016 features to give business proposals, technical reports, white papers, and other long documents a compelling format. Instructor Gini von Courter begins the course by going over how to create a master document and set up a logical, effective structure with outlines. She then discusses how to add reference items such as cross-references, footnotes, and indexes to guide readers through your work, and demonstrates smart ways to use captions and citations. Plus, she shares how to number chapters, sections, and pages; insert headers and footers; and add the finishing touches to your final document.

Learn how to create, format, share, and print a wide variety of documents in Word 2016. Author David Rivers covers creating new documents from templates and scratch, formatting text and pages, working with headers and footers, using themes and styles, adding multimedia, and more. He'll also show how to share documents with others and enhance your productivity with macros.

Learn how to create electronic forms that are visually pleasing and easy to navigate with Word 2016. This course covers designing a form; capturing data effectively with form controls such as dropdown lists, date pickers, and check boxes; and testing, protecting, and distributing forms. Gini Courter also shows how to accelerate form creation with free Microsoft.com templates and customize and share templates with colleagues.

Learn how to use Word's Mail Merge feature to quickly build customized documents, everything from personalized letters and envelopes to labels and email messages. Author Gini Courter shows how to use Mail Merge to take a form letter or any other template and insert data in the form of variables, such as names, addresses, dates, and amounts due. She also covers how to connect to existing data sources in Access, Outlook, and Excel; create new data sources; add attachments to merged email messages; use rules for advanced mail merges; and troubleshoot Mail Merge issues.

Learn how to use Word styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents. Author Gini von Courter shows how to create, apply, and modify a variety of style types, from paragraph styles to list styles. More advanced topics include generating a dynamic table of contents from styles, using style sets, restricting formatting and document use with styles, using keyboard shortcuts, and much more. Plus, learn how to share styles with colleagues by building them into Word templates.

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Learn how to find, use, and customize templates in Microsoft Word. In this course, Gini von Courter shows you how to work with common Word templates and make your own. Discover how to build resumes, invoices, fax cover letters, and more. Gini shows how to take one of the thousands of free available templates, and customize and save your own version. She also shows how to convert an existing document to a template, format it with styles, and lock the template down to prevent edits once you share it with others. Plus, learn to leverage advanced features in your templates: content controls, building blocks, document properties, and field codes. By the end of the course, you'll know how to make and save your own templates so you'll always have them handy in Word.

Many designers used Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign together, but the unique formatting and hidden markup in Word often cause issues when you bring text into InDesign. In this course, learn how to make these programs play nicely together and create beautifully formatted documents from existing text. Author and InDesign Secrets creator Anne-Marie Concepción shows how to clean up your text formatting, strip out Word styles and map them to InDesign ones, place Word document elements in InDesign, and fix the formatting once the text arrives. Plus, learn to repair corrupt Word files and explore alternatives to Word such as InCopy and Google Docs.

Learn how to cut time spent on repetitive and complex tasks in Microsoft Word. With macros, you can record a sequence of steps and perform them with the click of a button. Macros are driven by Visual Basic, but you don't need to be a programmer to create them. Instructor Gini von Courter begins this course by showing you the easiest way to set up a basic macro in Word. She explains the basics of macro security, and shows how to view the macro code in the Visual Basic Editor. Next, Gini shows how to build more complex macros by incorporating Word building blocks. Then learn how to export and import macro modules. Finally, Gini demonstrates how to manage your macros and add them to your Word toolbar or ribbon.