Course 55175A: Advanced Microsoft Word 2016

About this course

In this Microsoft Word 2016 training class, students learn advanced techniques, such as working with tables of contents, footnotes, and endnotes, adding comments, tracking changes, comparing and combining documents, creating envelopes and labels, using Mail Merge, and protecting documents. This class is for Word 2016 on Windows.

Audience profile

This course is intended for students who have intermediate skills with Microsoft Word 2016 who want to learn more advanced skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course in the 2016 interface.

At course completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Work with tables of contents.

Work with footnotes and endnotes.

Insert bibliographies and indexes.

Use comments.

Use track changes including accepting and rejecting changes.

Compare and combine documents.

Use Mail Merge and create envelopes and labels.

Protect documents.

Use bookmarks, add watermarks, and customize the Ribbon.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Intermediate level experience with Microsoft Word.

Course Outline

Module 1: Working with Long Documents

This module explains how use Microsoft Word’s features to get the most out of working with longer documents.
Lessons

Adding a Table of Contents

Updating a Table of Contents

Delting the Table of Contents

Exercise: Insert and Update a Table of Contents

Footnotes and Endnotes

Exercise: Working with Footnotes

Inserting Citations and a Bibliography

Exercise: Insert Citations and a Bibliography

Adding an Index

Exercise: Inserting an Index

Inserting a Table of Figures

Inserting and Updating a Table of Authorities

Creating an Outline
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Add a table of contents to a Microsoft Word document.

Update a table of contents.

Add footnotes to a Microsoft Word document.

Add endnotes to a Microsoft Word document.

Insert citations into a Microsoft Word document.

Insert a bibliography.

Mark entries in a document.

Insert an index into a Microsoft Word document.

Create an outline in Word.

Module 2: Review and Collaborating on Documents

This module explains how to review and collaborate on documents with others.
Lessons

Adding Comments

Exercise: Adding Comments to a Document

Tracking Changes

Exercise: Tracking Changes

Viewing Changes, Additions, and Comments

Exercise: Viewing Markup

Accepting and Rejecting Changes

Exercise: Accepting and Rejecting Changes
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Add and work with comments.

Track changes and set and change tracking options.

View changes, additions, and comments.

Use the Reviewing pane.

Choose what changes to show.

Accept and reject changes.

Module 3: Comparing and Combining Documents

This module explains how compare and combine documents in Microsoft Word.
Lessons

Comparing Documents

Exercise: Comparing Documents

Combining Documents

Exercise: Combining Documents
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Compare documents to find out what has changed between different version of a document.

Combine documents to gather revisions made by various individuals into a single document.

Module 4: Managing Mailings

This module explains how manage mailings using Microsoft Word.
Lessons

Creating Envelopes and Labels

Exercise: Printing an Envelope

Using Mail Merge

Exercise: Using Mail Merge
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Create and print envelopes in Microsoft Word.

Create and print labels in Microsoft Word.

Use Mail Merge to print or email form letters to multiple recipients.

Select Mail Merge recipients from an existing list.

Module 5: Protecting Documents

This module explains how to use Microsoft Word features to protect documents.
Lessons

Making Microsoft Word Documents Read Only

Password Protect Word Documents

Removing Metadata from Files

Restrict Formatting and Editing

Exercise: Protecting a Document
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Mark documents as final and make them read only.

Password protect Microsoft Word documents.

Restrict formatting options before sharing a document with others.

Restrict editing options before sharing a document with others.

Module 6: Random Useful Items

This module explains how to use various Microsoft Word features to enhance your use of the program.
Lessons

Add bookmarks to a document and use them to jump around a document.

Add watermarks to a Microsoft Word document.

Add titles to sections.

Insert built-in fields.

Use the Go To feature.

Customize the ribbon.

Prepare a document for internatiolization and accessibility.
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Add bookmarks.

Add watermarks.

Add titles to sections.

Insert built-in fields.

Use the Go To feature.

Customize the ribbon.

Prepare a document for internationalization and accessibility.

Module 7: New Features as of 2013

This module explains how to use the Cloud and Resume Reading feature, new since 2016.
Lessons

Using the Cloud

Exercise: Using the Cloud

Resume Reading Feature
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use the Cloud

Use the Resume Reading feature

Module 8: New Features in Word 2016

This module explains how to use features new in Word 2016.
Lessons

Ink Equations

Version History

Shape Formatting

Sharing
After completing this module, students will be able to:

Use the Ink Equation feature.

Use version history.

Use new shape formatting options.

Share documents.