by Guy Vaccaro | Released June 2011 | ISBN: 9781926873534

In this computer based training course, expert author Guy Vaccaro teaches you how to get the most out of Word 2011 for the Mac. Presented in the form of various projects, you will learn by actually creating useful documents.Starting with a letter, you learn about setting up your document. You will learn about inserting date and time, spell checking, and saving your document safely. You will then proceed in the video training to creating a mail merge, an email campaign, creating a manual, and your own templates. Throughout you will learn about formatting your document, inserting Table of Contents, adding images, styling text, and much, much more.By the completion of this Microsoft Word 2011 computer based video tutorial, you will be completely comfortable in creating professional looking documents in this extremely popular software program. Working files are included, to allow you to work with the same materials that the author is using in the training. Show and hide more

1. Getting Started
   • What Will I Be Able To Do With Word? 00:08:10
   • Making Use Of The Project Working Files 00:01:00
   • About The Author 00:01:21
2. Creating A Letter
   • Setting Page Size And Margins 00:03:29
   • Adding The Sender And Recipient Addresses 00:01:19
   • Adding Todays Date To The Letter 00:02:10
   • Salutation Ending And Content 00:02:13
   • Checking The Letter For Spelling Mistakes 00:02:32
   • Saving Your Letter In A Different Format 00:03:29
   • Adding A Label Or An Envelope 00:04:08
   • Printing Your Letter 00:02:16
3. Carrying Out A Marketing Mail Merge
   • Design The Letter For Your Campaign 00:02:36
   • Creating A Set Of Data To Use In Your Campaign 00:03:21
   • Telling The Letter Where To Put The Data 00:04:04
   • Filtering And Previewing The Merge Data 00:03:45
   • Running The Mail Merge 00:03:12
   • Changing The Data Source Of The Merge 00:04:52
4. Using Word To Generate An Email Campaign
   • Design The Body Of The Email 00:01:30
   • Connecting The Data And Finalise The Email 00:03:09
   • Generating The Individual Emails 00:02:23
   • Dealing With The Emails In Outlook 00:00:57
5. Design And Print A Greeting Card
   • Using A Template For The Card Layout 00:02:02
   • Adding A Text Box To Your Card 00:01:52
   • Create A Greetings Card Manually 00:03:21
   • Adding A WordArt Item 00:02:33
   • Using ClipArt On The Card 00:07:27
   • Text Boxes Are For Text 00:04:24
   • Upside Down Objects On Some Pages 00:03:28
   • Printing And Folding Your Card 00:02:01
6. Manual/Documentation Creation
   • Page Setup For A Manual 00:01:41
   • Using Words Built In Styles 00:05:40
   • Customizing The Built In Styles 00:03:36
   • Creating And Using Your Own Styles 00:06:55
   • Using The Document Map To Navigate A Large File 00:01:50
   • Inserting And Handling Images 00:05:48
   • Add A Table To Improve Presentation 00:05:17
   • Replacing Text Throughout A Document 00:04:02
   • Optimized Use Of Headers And Footers 00:07:48
   • Making Use Of Footnotes 00:06:33
   • Use Sections To Have Different Page Orientation 00:06:39
   • Adding And Updating A Table Of Contents 00:06:13
   • Adding And Removing A DRAFT Watermark 00:02:56
   • Exporting Your Manual Document As A PDF 00:02:29
7. Creating Your Own Template
   • Starting A Letterhead And Adding A Logo 00:03:38
   • Adding Company Details 00:04:13
   • Our Letter Needs A Footer 00:02:25
   • Todays Date, Every Time You Use The Template 00:01:59
   • Saving The Template 00:01:12
   • Use The Template To Create Letters 00:01:56
8. SkyDrive
   • What Is SkyDrive 00:03:26
   • Saving Your Document Into SkyDrive 00:01:35
   • Opening The Document For Editing 00:03:29
   • Informing Others About The SkyDrive Document 00:03:18
   • Enabling Edit Permissions On A SkyDrive Document 00:05:06
   • Tracking Changes Of A SkyDrive Document 00:02:53
   • Reviewing A Tracked Document 00:05:15
   • Deleting Documents From SkyDrive 00:01:13
9. Useful Formatting Extras
   • Adding A SmartArt Object 00:05:55
   • Word And Organization Charts 00:08:00
   • Manual Tabs A 00:03:35
   • Manual Tabs B 00:03:35
   • Making Use Of Columns 00:03:53
   • Creating And Using Autotext 00:05:33
10. Forms In Word
    • Designing A Form Layout 00:04:59
    • Adding Data Collection Fields 00:03:46
    • Setting The Properties Of Form Fields 00:05:00
    • Status Bar Text Help Added To Form Fields 00:02:04
    • Locking The Form Ready For Completion 00:03:09
    • Distributing The Form For Completion 00:03:19
    • Collecting The Form Completions 00:01:04
11. Word Tables Vs Excel Spreadsheets
    • Word Tables With Formulas 00:05:27
    • Adding A Chart To Word 00:04:47
    • Linking To An Excel Chart 00:02:25
12. Close
    • Summary - What Did I Learn 00:02:06
    • Other Tasks To Explore 00:02:54
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