Word 2016 Level 1

Have you found yourself in the position where you need to translate some text into English? Or maybe you need to convert some English text into another language? Let’s see how this can be done, using the Mini-Translator.

Sometimes words that are correctly spelt are picked up as incorrect by the Spellchecker, which can be very annoying. We’ll see how to add those words to the Custom Dictionary, but we’ll also see how to remove words from the Dictionary, just in case we add in something incorrectly, ourselves!

If you are limited to having a maximum number of words in your document, then this is feature you have been looking for. Not only can you get a count of how many words there are at any given time, but also how many pages, paragraphs or even individual characters.

If you find you use the same word a little too often in a document, use the Thesaurus to help you choose another word instead. This video shows you how to use this feature.

If you’ve ever wondered how come some words, when typed incorrectly, correct themselves, it’s because of the AutoCorrect feature. We’re going to look at it in action and we’re going to see how we can add our own misspellings to this feature – to be auto-corrected.

Running a Spelling and Grammar check on your documents is very important and something we should all get into the habit of doing. See the different options that the Task Pane will offer.

This is a new feature, currently only available to those who have Word 2016 through an Office 365 subscription. For those of you who do have this feature, watch out, as it’s very addictive!

This is a new feature, currently only available to those who have Word 2016 through an Office 365 subscription. Icons are images that are provided to be inserted into your documents, and work in a very similar way to pictures.

See how to insert SmartArt into a Word document – then look at some of the formatting features that you can apply.

We’ll take a look at inserting Shapes and some of the formatting features that you can use with them. We’ll also look at inserting a Drawing Canvas so that you could enter some Flowchart Shapes.

We’ll look at inserting a Picture into the document and see how to make it interact with the text around it. We’ll also take a look at some of the formatting features that we can apply to our images.

Learn how to quickly insert an Accent (or Fada) over a letter, how to insert the Euro sign, the Copyright sign, or many of the other special characters that you might like to insert.

Explore the five different Views that Word offers, but that you might not be familiar with. You’ll also see different ways to access those Views.

Learn how to insert a pre-designed Watermark – but also how to create your own custom Watermark. We’ll also see how to remove a Watermark.

See how you can quickly add in a pre-created Cover Page – then remove it again.

We’ll look at different ways to insert our Page Numbers, we’ll look at different types of Page Numbering and we’ll look at deleting them in different ways.

See how to use the in-built Margin settings to adjust the Margin widths – but also how to create your own Margin settings.

We’ll see how easy it is to change the Orientation of the page from Portrait to Landscape – and back again.

This video shows you how to create Page Breaks where you want to place them. Then we look at how to delete Page Breaks, that you no longer need.

We’ll use the Numbering button to quickly and easily create or remove a Numbered List, but we’ll also look at when you should apply them.

We’ll use the Bullets button to quickly and easily create or remove a Bulleted List, but we’ll also look at when you should apply them.

We’ll see where the default Line Spacing is displayed, and what it is. Then we’ll look at a quicker way of changing the Line Spacing – and setting it back to the default.

We’ll take a look at the buttons used for Indenting and ‘Outdenting’ our text. However, they only affect the left-hand side of the text, so we’ll also look at how you set Indents on the right-hand side of a paragraph.

This video brings you through the four Paragraph Alignment buttons and how to use them.

In previous videos I’ve mentioned that to modify a Quick Part, you just recreate it and save it over the previous one, with the same name. This video just demonstrates that for you.

Now you know how to create a Quick Part, but where do you go to delete a Quick Part? This video shows you exactly that.

If you want to create your own Building Block, then you create it as a Quick Part. This video shows you how this excellent feature works.

Understand what Building Blocks are and look at a small selection of them and see how to apply them.

Older Word documents will open automatically into ‘Compatibility Mode’. This means some features that you might like to use, will not be available. See how to recognise when you’re in this mode, and how to convert to the latest version.

Another lovely feature that you really must know, is the Format Painter. Features like this, save hours of work!

There are a number of Styles that are available to use, the most common being the Heading 1 style and the Heading 2 style. We’ll take a quick look at these and see that once we use them, more Styles become available.

We’ll look at changing the Font type and size using different methods. We’ll also change the Font colour and see that we have a Live Preview to help us make a choice.

Click and drag is not the only way to select text. In fact, there are many other ways, and generally, they would be more efficient than click and drag. We’ll look at some of those ways, in this video.

We’ll take a look at using the Help feature and also see the different options that are provided, within that window.

Before printing a document you should always look into Print Preview to get an overall view of it. We’ll also take a look at some of the options contained in the Preview area.

We’re going to open up the document we created in the previous video, make a small change, then Save that change.

We’ll create a Blank document, quickly fill in some text, then Save and Close that document.

I like to work with the Rulers turned on permanently, so this video shows you how to turn them on. The default measurement of Rulers is to be in centimetres but you might prefer to use inches, so we’ll also see how to make that change.

Learn how to create your own Ribbon tab, add commands to it, remove commands from it and then finally, how to delete your tab.