Beginners Word Training and Mail Merge

Here are three well written Word Training Guides hosted by California State University, Northridge. Two of these training tutorials are for those getting started with Word and one is a tutorial on Mail Merge Using Word and Excel. Basic Word features demonstrated by these training guides are: Creating a Document, Basic Editing, Correcting Errors, Restoring a Deletion, Adding and Moving Text, Correcting Spelling and Grammatical Errors, Saving a Document, Printing a Document, Text Formatting, Paragraph Formatting, Document Formatting, Page Setup, Headers and Footers, Automatic Page Numbering, and File Management.


Beginner's Guide to Word 2002

1. Getting Started
   • Starting the Program
   • The Word Startup Window
2. Bare Bones Basics
• Creating a Document
• Basic Editing Features
• Correcting Errors
  • Erasing Mistakes as You Type
  • Deleting Text
• Restoring a Deletion
• Adding Text
• Moving Text
• Correcting Spelling and Grammatical Errors
• Saving a Document
• Saving a Document for the First Time
• Saving a Previously Saved Document
• Printing a Document
• Closing a Document Window
• Opening an Existing Document
• Ending a Word Session
3. Text Formatting Features
   • Bolding, Italicizing or Underlining Text
   • Changing Font Typeface and Size
4. Paragraph Formatting Features
• Aligning a Paragraph
• Paragraph Indents
• Line Spacing
• Setting Tab Stops
5. Document Formatting Features
• Page Setup
• Headers and Footers
• Automatic Page Numbering
6. File Management
7. How to Learn More
8. Appendix A: Glossary
9. Appendix B: Features Table

Beginner's Guide to Word 2000

This training guide presents an introduction to selected features in the word processing program Word 2000. Please note that the document is not intended to cover all ways in which the basic features can be used or accessed.

1. Getting Started
2. Bare Bones Basics
   
• Creating a Document
• Basic Editing Features
• Making Corrections
• Restoring a Deletion
• Adding Text
• Moving Text
• Correcting Spelling and Grammatical Errors
• Saving a Document
• Printing a Document
• Closing a Document Window
• Opening an Existing Document
• Ending a Word Session
3. Formatting Features
• Text Formatting
• Bolding, Italicizing or Underlining Text
• Changing Font Typeface and Size
• Paragraph Formatting
• Aligning a Paragraph
• Paragraph Indents
• Line Spacing
• Setting Tab Stops
• Document Formatting
• Page Setup
• Headers and Footers
• Automatic Page Numbering
4. File Management
• Saving Files
• Deleting Documents
• File Management QuickTips
5. How to Learn More
• Word Help Options
• Computer Based Training (CBT)
• Printed Material
6. Appendix A: Glossary
7. Appendix B: Word 2000 Features Table  

Mail Merge Using Word and Excel

Using Word's Mail Merge function gives you the ability to generate personalized documents by merging together a main document and a data source.

There are three steps to any mail merge project:

Step 1: Create a data source document in Excel with the information, such as name and addresses, that will vary with each letter or label.
Step 2: Create a main document in Word, such as a form letter, mailing labels, envelopes, etc.
Step 3: Merge the main document from step 2 with the data source from step 1.

Mail Merge Table of Contents

  1 Creating and Sorting a Data Source Document

• Creating a Data Source Document in Excel
• Sorting the Excel Data
• Creating a Data Source Document in Word

  2 Generating Individually Addressed Form Letters

• Creating the Main Document in Word
• Merging Form Letters

  3 Generating Mailing Labels

• Creating the Main Document in Word
• Merging Labels
• Saving the Main Document and Merging Again Later

  4 Generating Individually Addressed Envelopes

• Creating the Main Document in Word
• Merging Envelopes
• Saving the Main Document and Merging Again Later

  5 Generating a List (or Catalog)

• Creating the Main Document in Word
• Merging a Catalog

  6 How to Merge and Print Selected Records

  7 How to Learn More

• Word Help Options
• Printed Material