Word 2010 Resources

Updated 2013.04.02

Word Objectives

Sample Files

·         A Christmas Carol (navigation, editing, character formatting, paragraph formatting)

·         Alice In Wonderland

·         Lincoln (find and replace)

·         Red-Headed League (find and replace)

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·         Page Orientation

·         Margins Video

·         Navigation and Selection

·         Editing

·         File commands and printing

·         Formatting characters Video

·         Formatting paragraphs Video

·         Autotext Video

·         General Word Processing Tips

·         Customizing Word

·         Views and Zoom

·         Keyboard shortcuts (short list)

Skills for writing a term paper

·         Setting spacing between paragraphs

·         Checking spelling and grammar

·         Creating a cover page

·         Headers and footers: creating and editing

·         Headers and footers: inserting page numbers

·         Headers and footers: inserting the current date

·         Adding Citations

·         Adding a Works Cited list

·         Bulleted Lists

·         Numbered Lists

Aligning text

·         Breaks

·         Page breaks

·         Line breaks

·         Column breaks

·         Tabs

·         Tabs sample data file

·         Fixing a problem with Word tab defaults

·         Tabs

·         Tables

·         Table sample data file

·         Tables

Newsletter Tools

·         How Word documents are organized:
characters, paragraphs, sections

·         Page borders Video

·         Drop caps Video

·         Columns

·         Column breaks

·         Word Art

·         Word Art, old style Video

·         Templates video

·         Free templates

·         Free fonts

Graphics Elements

·         Text boxes Video

·         Pictures and Clip Art

·         Smart Art

·         Shapes

·         Screenshots

·         Picture Tools—The Format Ribbon

·         Charts

 

Large Documents

·         How Word documents are organized:
characters, paragraphs, sections

·         Styles. Video (3:15)

·         Sample file: User's Guide

·         Finding document elements

·         Inserting a table of contents

·         Inserting an index

Miscellaneous

·         Mail Merge

·         Macros

·         Water marks

·         Keyboard shortcuts (long list)

Using Word to create a web page

·         Using Word to create other types of documents

·         Web servers and browsers

·         Adding hyperlinks

·         Adding a theme

Microsoft pages

·         Office Home Page: starting place for info about Word

·         Downloads: get the latest update (MS calls them "service packs") to Word

·         Free Word Viewer: download this program and you can read Word documents even if you don't have Word

·         Microsoft Reader: for reading e-books (or having them read to you!)

·         Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Home Page: get your Word skills certified

Other pages:

·         University of Wisconsin

·         Word practice test

·         MS Office Specialist Word Objectives

·         MS Office Specialist Word Expert Objectives