Word Workshop Tutorials

These Workshop Tutorials will teach you how to use Microsoft Word. Each Word tutorial contains illustrated explanations and examples of the features being taught, followed by detailed learning activities. In the classes taught here you will learn the basic skills for using and understanding Word’s features and commands. West Virginia University provides these free computer and software training workshops and materials (most are in pdf format).


Word Workshop Tutorials

• Word XP Intro (also good for Word 2003, 20 pages, 245kb)
• Margins
• Ruler
• Format Paragraph
• Alignment
• Hanging Indent
• Format Font
• Default Font
• Format Painter
• Styles
• Modify Existing Heading Styles
• Tabs with Dot Leaders
• Table of Contents
• Document Map
• Insert Date
• Insert Breaks
• Keep lines of a paragraph together
• Keep a heading with its first paragraph
• Widows and Orphans
• Headers and Footers
• Tables
• Mail Merge for Word XP
• Labels1
• Create a Template for Future Use
• Tips for Success
• Word XP Options
  
  
• Word Mail Merge (Word XP and 2003, 5 pages, 220kb)
• Mail Merge is a function of Microsoft Word that allows you insert data from a table (Access) or spreadsheet (Excel) into a Word document, field by field. This is used to format and print labels, envelopes, and letters.

• Word Styles (10 pages, 149kb)
• What are styles?
• What good are styles?
• How are styles applied?
• What is a template?
• Activity 1: Viewing styles
• How do I work with styles in Word?
• Creating a new style
• Changing a style
• Activity 2: Changing and creating styles
• Moving styles to other documents or templates
• Replacing multiple instances of a style
• Activity 3: Replacing and moving styles
• Styles in Action
• Step-by-step: Creating a Table of Contents
• Activity 4: Table of contents..8 ii Using Word with Style
  
  
• Word Skills for ETD Submission (12 pages, 165kb)
• The content of this course is based on our experience in OIT with assisting graduate students in preparing and submitting their theses and dissertations.
• The Golden Rule of Word Processing
• Breaking, Widows, and Orphans
• Page Breaks
• Section Breaks
• Paging ETD, Paging ETD
• Step-by-step: Page numbering
• Activity 1: Pagination
• Word Processing with Style
• Applying a Style
• Changing a Style
• Contentment
• Step-by-step: Creating a Table of Contents
• Updating the Table of Contents
• Activity 2: Table of Contents

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