Word 2013: Styles in Depth

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Free Online Course: Word 2013: Styles in Depth provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Word 2013: Styles in Depth is taught by Gini von Courter.

Overview
  • Learn how to use Word 2013 styles to help save time creating consistent and well-designed documents.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you need for this course
    • Using the exercise files and handouts
    1. Starting with Styles
    • What styles can do for you
    • Creating a style
    • Understanding how styles interact with themes
    • Working with the Styles task pane
    • Understanding types of styles
    • Viewing the formatting for selected text
    • Viewing all paragraph formatting with the Style Area
    2. Applying Styles
    • Applying styles from the ribbon
    • Applying styles using the Apply Styles dialog box
    • Applying styles from the Styles window
    • Displaying the style list on the Quick Access bar
    • Replacing styles
    • Applying table styles
    • Applying styles to lists
    • Applying multilevel list styles
    3. Creating Your Own Styles
    • Understanding naming conventions
    • Creating a paragraph style by example
    • Creating an alias for a style
    • Making a character style by definition
    • Creating a style from existing formatting
    • Basing a new style on an existing style
    • Leveraging style inheritance in heading styles
    4. Editing Styles
    • Finding and fixing directly formatted text
    • Modifying styles automatically
    • Modifying table styles
    • Modifying list styles
    5. Using Quick Style Sets to Format Documents
    • One-click document formatting
    • Understanding document formatting and Quick Style sets
    • Saving a custom Quick Style set
    • Modifying paragraph spacing for a document
    6. Copying, Deleting, and Renaming Styles
    • Copying and pasting styles using the Organizer
    • Copying styles while pasting styled text
    • Renaming styles
    • Deleting styles
    • Deleting a Quick Style set
    7. Creating a Table of Contents Using Styles
    • Generating a table of contents from built-in styles
    • Generating a table of contents from custom styles
    • Modifying TOC (table of contents) styles
    8. Managing Styles and Style Options
    • Navigating using styles
    • Adding the Quick Styles gallery to the Quick Access bar
    • Using and assigning style keyboard shortcuts
    • Printing a list of styles and keyboard assignments
    • Restricting other users to specific styles
    • Setting font, document, and template defaults
    • Setting sort order and styles to show
    • Editing, hiding, and recommending
    Conclusion
    • Next steps