Course details

Level: Advanced                                            Released: 5/20/2016

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.

Learning objectives

• Recognize what the default font size option allows you to do.
• Identify the best way to run updates for Word.
• Recall where you should apply a drop cap for effect.
• Name the option you should use if you need to count the spaces between words in a document.
• Identify how to keep the spell-checker from becoming a nuisance while working on a document.
• Explain when you should compress all of the pictures in your document.

Learn how you can format your Microsoft Word documents so that they look and behave the way you want them to. Some of the formatting options you'll learn about include using page and section breaks, using columns, inserting line numbers, and changing the margins.