Word 2021 Basic, Advanced & Expert

Benefit

The Word 2021 e-learning course shows you the most important functions for professional word processing. You will learn how to use documents, formatting, tables and graphics efficiently – flexibly, practically and at your own pace.

Target group

This course is ideal for you if you want to learn or refresh the basics of Word and are also curious about advanced features.

Requirements

You do not need any prior knowledge of Word. Some initial experience is helpful, as it will enable you to progress more quickly through the training.

Learning content

Level 1: Basic knowledge

This module offers interactive training consisting of 55 lesson videos, 55 practical tasks and 6 theoretical tasks with additional information.

Discover Word, complete a simple text

• Things to know: Discovering a word processing programme 
• Opening a document 
• General information about the working environment
• Navigating in a document 
• Displaying non-printable characters 
• Useful information: Input aids 
• Text input 
• Managing paragraphs 
• Useful information: Selecting, copying and moving 
• Selecting and deleting text 
• Undoing and restoring an action 
• Useful information: Saving files 
• Saving a document 
• Creating a new document

Apply a simple presentation style to the text

• Things to know: Formatting characters 
• Applying a style 
• Applying a design 
• Formatting characters 
• Font colour 
• Upper and lower case 
• Font type and size

Format your paragraphs, rearrange the text

• Indentation of paragraphs 
• Alignment of paragraphs 
• Spacing between paragraphs 
• Line spacing 
• Frame and background 
• Move text 
• Copy text

Page layout, page numbers and printing

• Layout 
• Zoom 
• Print 
• Page break 
• Interesting facts: Header and footer 
• Header and footer 
• Page numbers

Manage tab stops and lists

• Setting a tab stop 
• Tab stops with fill characters 
• Managing tab stops 
• Numbering and bullet points 
• Custom bullet points 
• Custom numbering symbols 
• Multi-level list 
• List format 
• Line break 
• Hanging indent

Discover the essential features

• Using Word Help 
• Inserting a document, cover page or blank page 
• Hyphenation 
• Protected space or protected hyphen 
• Inserting special characters and symbols 
• Spacing and position of characters 
• Searching for text/formatting 
• Replacing text/formatting
• Copying formatting 
• Using the accessible reader 
• Checking spelling and grammar 
• Managing a custom dictionary 
• Setting up AutoCorrect 
• Searching for synonyms 
• Search and translation functions 
• Displaying a document and windows

Level 2: Advanced - knowledge for consolidation

This module offers interactive training consisting of 43 lesson videos, 41 practical tasks and 1 theoretical task with additional information.

Avoid tedious data entry

• Creating AutoTexts 
• Using AutoText 
• Managing AutoTexts 
• System date and time

Insert a table into a text

• Creating a table 
• Moving the insertion point and entering data into a table 
• Selecting and inserting rows and columns 
• Deleting rows and columns 
• Table format template 
• Formatting cells 
• Row height and column width 
• Aligning cells and tables 
• Merging and splitting cells or tables 
• Converting text or tables
• Sorting tables, lists or paragraphs 
• Calculations in tables

Spice up your texts with graphic objects

• Creating shapes 
• Size/rotation/alignment 
• Moving/copying shapes 
• Formatting shapes 
• Text in a drawing or WordArt object 
• Text formatting in an object/WordArt 
• Inserting images 
• Managing images 
• Position and text flow of an image
• Captions and list of figures 
• Background of a document 
• Charts 
• Insert an object from another app 
• SmartArt graphics

Print an envelope or create a form letter

• Creating envelopes or address labels 
• Useful information: Mail merge 
• Mail merge: linking a list to a document 
• Inserting fields into a mail merge 
• Performing a mail merge 
• Editing recipients
• Adding and deleting recipients 
• Sorting a recipient list 
• Selecting records for printing 
• Conditional text in a mail merge 
• Preparing labels using mail merge 
• Document with variable fields

Level 3: Professionals - Advanced knowledge

This module offers interactive training consisting of 45 lesson videos, 45 practical tasks and 4 theoretical tasks with additional information.

Master the use of designs, style sheets and templates

• Things to know: Style sheets and templates 
• Creating a style sheet 
• Using the Style Sheets task pane 
• Changing a style sheet 
• The Standard style sheet for a paragraph 
• Deleting a style sheet 
• Style sheet sets
• Displaying formatting 
• Creating and customising a design 
• Creating and using document templates 
• Editing and deleting templates 
• Assigning a different template to a document 
• Transferring style sheets to other files

Venture into long documents

• Navigating long documents 
• Section 
• Different headers and footers 
• Managing automatic page breaks 
• Footnotes and endnotes 
• Managing footnotes or endnotes 
• Heading levels 
• Outline view 
• Table of contents

Finish your long documents

• Bookmarks 
• Cross-reference 
• Link 
• Text display in columns 
• Main document 
• Index 
• Citations and bibliographies

Collaborate with other users

• Things to know: Import, export and interoperability with Word 
• Transfer Word data: PDF, XPS, text, web pages, emails 
• Comments 
• Save changes for tracking 
• Manage change tracking 
• Merge and compare documents 
• Protect a shared document 
• Protect a document with a password 
• Share a document 
• Finalise a document

And even more

• Initial 
• management of programme settings 
• Statistics and document properties 
• Macro commands 
• Converting Word documents 
• Creating a form 
• Protecting and using a form 
• Versions and restoring a file 
• Good to know: Customising the ribbon 
• Good to know: The correct way to work Word processing

Microsoft Office 2021: Use Cases

Excel, Word or PowerPoint with an Office 365 subscription

This module offers you a video with a duration of 23 minutes.

• Office with or without an Office 365 subscription: what's the difference? 
• Create and save Office documents in OneDrive, SharePoint Online or Teams 
• Edit an Office document via OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams 
• Share Office documents with colleagues or external parties 
• Create files collaboratively