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Learn helpful tips and shortcuts to create more professional-looking documents in Microsoft Word.
Microsoft Word contains a multitude of helpful features that can streamline your document creation workflow. In this course, Nick Brazzi shines a spotlight on some of the software's lesser-known features, sharing useful tips that can help you improve your productivity and efficiency in Microsoft Word. Follow along with Nick Brazzi as he shares a variety of power-user formatting tricks, including how to select text more effectively, maintain text format when you're copying and pasting, and add a drop cap effect. Plus, learn how to share custom dictionaries, work with nonprinting characters, leverage the Resume Assistant, and much more.
Note: This course was recorded on Word for Office 365; however, most of the contents will benefit anyone using Office 2019 or 2016.
Overview
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Explore some less-known features in Microsoft Word
- Disable the Start screen
- Set default font for new documents
- Update Word
- Use automatic text replacement
- Insert placeholder text
- Work with website links
- Select text more effectively
- Maintain format during copy and paste
- Use the Drop Cap effect
- Add words to the custom spell check dictionary
- Share custom dictionaries
- Set the spell check language or disable spell check
- Show non-printing characters
- Word and character count
- Compress pictures to decrease file size
- Cite your sources with Researcher
- Get help writing a resume from the Resume Assistant
- Lock a document to restrict editing
- Next steps
