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Standard correspondence

  • Basic commands related to navigating, selecting, typing
  • Format attributes for characters and paragraphs
  • Copy-cut-paste / find-replac
  • Global page layout and print option
  • Managing file

Tables

  • Creating a table
  • Available commands on the DESIGN and LAYOUT Tab
  • Working on the paragraphs inside cells
  • The table as a floating graphic object. Inserting a table inside a cell

Long documents: titles, table of contents, sections

  • Some functionalities require to use "field codes" : creating, managing...
  • Hierarchizing a document into chapters, subchapters... using styles
  • Numbering titles
  • Outline mode
  • Expand & Collapse portions of hierarchized text withoug using the Outline mod
  • Inserting a table of contents
  • View modes handy to combine with long documents (side by side, split)
  • The concept of a section
  • Footnotes and cross-references

Illustrated documents

  • Columns format
  • Hyphenating
  • Page border and watermark
  • Page cover
  • Drop cap
  • Pictures : graphic generalities (pixel or vector mode, extensions ...)
  • Pictures : office generalities (text or floating layer, anchor ...)
  • Pictures and cliparts
  • Tables as floating objects
  • SmartArt charts
  • Drawn shapes and drawing canva
  • WordArt - Pre-defined Textbox - Equation
  • Pasted objects - simple - DDE or OLE lin
  • Creating a table of figures

Mail merge

  • This functionality requires to use "field codes" : creating, managing ...
  • Simple mail merge
  • Envelopes or labels for a mail merge
  • Adding rules
  • Merging as a directory
  • Merge as e-mail messages
  • Merge directly from Outlook rather than Word

Customize and Automate

Customize

  • The types of templates
  • The Normal.dotm template (managing and customizing
  • The NormalEmail.dotm template
  • The other Word global template
  • Customizing items from the Building Blocks.dotx fil
  • Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar

Automate

  • Forms : the Fillin message boxes, the [clic here] field codes, the content controls, the legacy form controls, the Active X form controls
  • Introduction to macro-instructions : create, modify ... security. Creating a custom button to run a macro
  • Protection : protection to access the file, internal protection
  • Special functions : convert to PDF format
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