Overview
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Discover keyboard shortcuts, workflows, and commands to transform you into a Word 2010 pro. Learn techniques for content creation, navigation, layout, and graphics integration.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Selecting text for formatting
- Mastering the Navigation pane
- Using the Reveal Formatting pane
- Clearing formatting
- Adjusting paragraph spacing
- Setting tabs using the ruler
- Inserting horizontal lines
- Using AutoCorrect to create abbreviations
- Working with the text wrap features
- Setting defaults for new documents
- Opening recent files
- Changing the AutoRecover settings
- Changing the default saving location
- Using KeyTips to select Ribbon commands
- Using keyboard shortcuts and function keys
- Splitting the screen
- Navigating with Browse by Object
- Using the Go To tab in the Find and Replace dialog
- Inserting random boilerplate text
- Selecting paste options
- Inserting today's date
- Using Click and Type
- Using Overtype mode
- Cutting to the Spike
- Using advanced Find and Replace techniques
- Editing the dictionary
- Refining grammar options
- Marking inconsistent formatting
- Applying theme colors vs. standard colors
- Hiding text
- Inserting symbols and special characters
- Working with AutoFormat
- Typing symbols with AutoCorrect
- Inserting nonbreaking spaces
- Inserting diacritical marks
- Creating drop caps
- Inserting and removing hyperlinks
- Refining OpenType text features
- Replicating font formatting
- Adding first-line indents
- Controlling line and page breaks
- Mastering columns
- Inserting line numbering
- Vertically centering a cover page
- Modifying a heading style to include a page break
- Using multi-level numbering in heading styles
- Saving style modifications for future use
- Assigning a keyboard shortcut to a style
- Adding captions to tables, figures, and charts
- Using advanced table features
- Using a drawing canvas
- Creating transparent colors and removing backgrounds
- Editing clip art
- Cropping a picture with a shape
- Aligning, distributing, and grouping graphics
- Compressing images
- Inserting text from a file
- Linking Excel objects
- Setting up odd and even pages
- Formatting page numbering for different document sections
- Inserting bookmarks
- Inserting cross-references
- Customizing a table of contents
- Creating citations and a bibliography
- Using a style reference in a header
- Mastering Outline view
- Saving ink and paper when printing
- Printing a booklet
- Printing document metadata
- Updating fields before printing
- Embedding fonts in the file
- Goodbye
