Word 365: Part 2 - Intermediate (eLearning) Course



Course Details:

Length: 5 courses

Access Length: 6 months

Price: $150/person (USD)

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Course Features:

Instant Access After Purchase

Lecture by Recorded Video

Stop and Start as Needed

Certificate of Completion

Software Lab Included?: Yes

Delivery Method:

Self-Paced Online

Individuals and Groups
@ Your Location

 


Course Overview

Word 365: From Basic to Brilliant (Intermediate Edition)

Ready to ditch the Word doc doldrums? Level up your skills with this intermediate course and transform into a master of Microsoft's word-wielding weapon.

Forget clunky formats and repetitive tasks. Unleash the power of Styles, Templates, and Themes to create documents that sing with visual flair and organizational finesse. Tame unruly data with advanced tables and charts, weaving numbers into compelling narratives. Collaborate like a pro with built-in tools that let you discuss, refine, and perfect every sentence.

But wait, there's more! This course unlocks the secrets of visual storytelling. Master the art of pictures, shapes, and drawing tools, crafting documents that are as eye-catching as they are informative. From SmartArt diagrams to 3D models and equations, you'll learn to bend Word to your will, expressing ideas with stunning visual clarity.

  • Become a Style Jedi: Craft custom styles, templates, and themes that make your documents pop.
  • Data Whisperer: Transform tables and charts into captivating stories.
  • Collaboration Ninja: Master track changes, comments, and document merging - teamwork has never been smoother.
  • Visual Alchemist: Pictures, shapes, and drawing tools - your canvas awaits!
  • Express Yourself: From SmartArt to 3D models and equations, explore the full breadth of Word's creative potential.

This course is your passport to document domination. Enroll today and unlock the full power of Word 365!

Also Included - 4 Courses: An Essential Career Skills Pack with 4 courses in key areas for career management and growth, including Time Management, Digital Skills, Creativity and Soft Skills.

 


Course Notes


Important Course Information
Course Taught with: Desktop Version of Microsoft Word 365 for Windows ().
Versions that Can Attend: Microsoft Word 365 Version for Windows () or Macintosh (Mac) - iOS ().

eLearning Training Delivery Method


How It Works

This self-paced online course lets you learn independently at your own pace through Certstaffix Training's easy-to-use platform.

  • Learn at your own pace - Start and stop as it is convenient for you. Pick up where you left off.
  • Lecture utilizing video and recorded screenshots
  • 6-month subscription length
  • Instant Access After Purchase

Have more than 10 students needing this course? Contact Us for bulk pricing.

Suggested Prerequisites & Follow-On
Prerequisites:

To ensure your success in this course, you should have end-user skills with any current version of Windows, including starting programs, switching between programs, locating saved files, closing programs, and using a browser to access websites. You can obtain this level of skills and knowledge by taking either the Windows 10 eLearning Bundle or the Windows 11 eLearning Bundle.

You should also be familiar with the topics covered in the following course:


Follow-Ons:
Target Audience

Who should enroll in this course?

  • Word enthusiasts seeking to level up: You've mastered the basics and are eager to explore Word's more advanced features to create visually stunning, well-organized, and collaborative documents.
  • Professionals who work with data: You frequently handle data in Word and want to learn how to effectively format, analyze, and visualize it using tables, charts, and other tools.
  • Visual communicators: You want to enhance your documents with impactful visuals, including pictures, shapes, SmartArt, and even 3D models and equations.
  • Collaborative teams: You work with others on Word documents and want to streamline the process with track changes, comments, and merging features.
  • Anyone who wants to unlock Word's full potential: You're ready to move beyond basic formatting and tap into Word's hidden powers to create truly professional and engaging documents.
Key Features
  • Audio Narration
  • Video
  • Inline Activities
  • Supplemental Resources
  • Post-Assessment
Languages
  • Audio/Video/Course Text: American English.
  • Subtitles (Closed Caption): American English, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Canadian French, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
Course Duration
  • Microsoft Word 365: 6 hr 25 min
  • Essential Career Skills Pack: 2 hrs 23 min

 


Course Topics

Word 365: Intermediate

Course Duration - 6 hrs 25 min

This is the intermediate course in the Microsoft Word 365 series. This course expands upon the topics covered in the Word 365 Introduction course. In this course, students will work with, create, manage, and customize Styles, Templates, and Themes. Students will also work with various types of data in Word using Tables, advanced Copy and Paste commands, and Charts. Students will then review advanced document layout options in Word and various collaboration tools. Lastly, students will work with graphic elements such as pictures, text boxes, shapes, the Drawing Canvas, SmartArt, Text Effects, Typography Effects, WordArt, and Equations. Additional graphic element features such as grouping, layering, and moving objects will also be covered.

Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
  • Effectively apply, create, manage, and customize styles within Word documents.
  • Proficiently create and manipulate various types of lists and tables to organize and present data.
  • Integrate and work with data from external sources, including Excel, within Word documents.
  • Utilize advanced document layout options to enhance document structure and visual appeal.
  • Collaborate effectively with others using Word's commenting, track changes, and markup features.
  • Effectively insert, format, and manipulate graphic elements to enhance visual communication.
  • Create and customize charts to visually represent data within Word documents.
  • Customize document design and formatting using themes and templates.
  • Integrate special graphics to enhance visual and technical content.
  • Employ advanced techniques for working with shapes and drawing tools.
Detailed Course Outline:
Detailed Course Outline:
Introduction

Working with Styles
  • Using Styles
  • Creating a Style Based on Text
  • Modifying a Style
  • Managing and Exporting Styles
  • Using Styles to Navigate or Reorder Text
  • Working with Style Sets
  • Creating and Applying Font and Color Sets
  • Working with Themes
  • What are Templates?
  • Creating a Template
  • Modifying Templates
  • Changing the Custom Office Template Location
Working with Lists and Tables
  • Creating a Bulleted List
  • Creating a Numbered List
  • Creating a Multilevel List
  • Sorting a List
  • Creating a Table
  • Formatting Text in a Table
  • Adding and Deleting Rows and Columns
  • Adjusting Row and Column Width and Height
  • Merging and Splitting Cells
  • Sorting Table Items
  • Aligning Table Text
  • Changing Text Direction in a Table
  • Adjusting Cell Margins
  • Adding Styles, Borders and Shading
  • Converting Text to Table
Working with Data in Word
  • Repeating Table Header Rows and Setting Page Breaks
  • Working with Calculations in a Table
  • Working with Excel Data in Word
  • Copying, Pasting and Linking Excel Data
  • Creating a Chart in Word
  • Editing Chart Data
  • Formatting a Chart
Advanced Document Layout
  • Controlling Page Breaks
  • Working with Section Breaks
  • Using Section Breaks with Margins and Page Orientation
  • Applying Columns
  • Modifying Columns
  • Adding Borders and Shading
  • Applying Different Headers or Footers
  • Creating a Signature Line
Collaborating in Word
  • Working with Comments
  • Using Track Changes
  • Reviewing and Accepting Changes
  • Customizing Markups
  • Comparing and Merging Two Documents
  • Combining Documents
Working with Pictures, Shapes and Drawing Tools
  • Applying a Picture Style and Effects
  • Adjusting a Picture
  • Removing a Picture Background
  • Inserting a Text Box from the Gallery
  • Drawing and Formatting a Text Box
  • Adding, Selecting, and Deleting Shapes
  • Resizing, Rotating, and Replacing Shapes
  • Using the Selection Pane
  • Copying or Duplicating a Shape
  • Customizing Fill Color and Outline for a Shape
  • Using a Drawing Canvas
  • Positioning & Moving Shapes or Objects
  • Using Text Wrapping
  • Grouping and Layering Objects
  • Aligning Objects
Inserting Special Characters
  • Creating SmartArt
  • Formatting and Customizing SmartArt
  • Working with Text & Typography Effects
  • Creating and Modifying WordArt
  • Inserting a 3-D Model
  • Working with Equations
Conclusion

 


 


Essential Career Skills Pack


Productivity and Time Management

Course Duration - 30 min

It seems that there is never enough time in the day. But, since we all get the same 24 hours, why is it that some people achieve so much more with their time than others? This course will explain how to plan and prioritize tasks, so that we can make the most of the limited time we have. By using the time-management techniques in this course, you can improve your ability to function more effectively – even when time is tight and pressures are high. So, by the end of the course you will have the knowledge, skills and confidence to be an effective manager of your time.

Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
  • Set your priorities to better manage your time
  • Improve your productivity by sharpening your focus and multitasking effectively
Detailed Course Outline:
Detailed Course Outline:
  • Productiity & Time Management
  • Prioritization
  • Getting Things Done
  • Procrastination
  • Multitasking & Focus
  • Summary


 

Basic Digital Skills

Course Duration - 13 min

With the rise of digital transformation and technology, having a basic digital literacy is essential for all types of jobs, regardless of the industry. To stay competitive and be successful in the workplace, enhancing your digital skills should be a top priority.

Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
  • Recall the essential digital skills framework
  • Elaborate on the toolkit of essential digital skills
  • Identify how to develop or improve your digital skills
Detailed Course Outline:
Detailed Course Outline:
  • The Essential Digital Skills Framework
  • The Toolkit of Essential Digital Skills
  • Developing Digital Skills
  • Summary


 

4 Ways to Boost Creativity

Course Duration - 30 min

The digital economy is opening up ways for everyone to be creative. It doesn’t just mean being artistic – it’s more about ideas, solutions, alternatives, incremental improvements. Peter Quarry and Eve Ash discuss ways that mental capacity can be developed, perspectives changed, group power leveraged and making things actually happen.

Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
  • Define creativity
  • Think outside the box
  • Develop the right mental attitude
  • Leverage the power of groups
  • Ensure managers make it happen
Detailed Course Outline:
Detailed Course Outline:
  • What is Creativity at Work?
  • Learn to Think Outside the box
  • Develop the Right Mental Capacity
  • Laverage the Power of Groups
  • Ensure Managers Make It Happen
  • Summary


 

The 11 Essential Career Soft Skills

Course Duration - 1 hr 10 min

Soft Skills are the traits, characteristics, habits, and skills needed to survive and thrive in the modern work world. Soft skills aren't usually taught in school, but you will learn them all here in this course. Are you someone that other people in your organization and industry like to work with, collaborate with and partner with? Are you seen as a valuable asset to any new project that comes along?

This soft skills training course will teach you how to develop the skills that can make the difference between a lackluster career that tops out at middle management versus one that lands you in the executive suite. Or to wherever you define career success. So many soft skills seem like common sense at first glance, but they are not commonly applied by most workers. This soft skills training course will give you an edge over your competitors. It will also make your job, your career and your life more rewarding and enjoyable.

Course Objectives:
Course Objectives:
  • Understand how to be a great communicator
  • Become a stronger listene
  • Appear professional to co-workers and bosses of all ages
  • Avoid common career blunders that often end careers
  • Manage expectations for bosses and colleagues
  • Position yourself for promotions
  • Make technology your asset, even if you are afraid of technology
  • Avoid the Not My Job Syndrome
  • Develop EQ to Match Your IQ
  • Develop leadership qualities
Detailed Course Outline:
Detailed Course Outline:
  • Introduction
  • The Soft Tech Savvy Way to Always Be Essential
  • Not My Job, And I Am Happy to Do It
  • You Can Become a Master Communicator
  • Feedback Video for The 11 Essential Career Soft Skills
  • Become a Leader Without the Title or Formal Authority
  • Your EQ Will Beat a Higher IQ
  • Building Your Winning Team
  • Make Every One of Your Seconds Count
  • Unleash Your Inner Anthony Robbins
  • Avoid Being Uncool
  • Clothes Can Still Make or Break Your Career
  • Conclusion The 11 Essential Career Soft Skills
  • Extra: Developing Your Career Secret Sauce

 



 


Related Microsoft Word Information:

How Much Do Microsoft Word Training Courses Cost?

Public instructor-led Microsoft Word course prices start at $275 per student. Group training discounts are available.

Self-Paced Microsoft Word eLearning courses cost $150 at the starting point per student. Group purchase discounts are available.

What Microsoft Word Skills Should I Learn?

A: If you are wondering what Microsoft Word skills are important to learn, we've written a Microsoft Word Skills and Learning Guide that maps out Word skills that are key to master and which of our courses teaches each skill.

Read Our Microsoft Word Skills and Learning Guide

What is the best way to learn Microsoft Word?

A: There are a few different ways that you can learn Microsoft Word. You can take classes or you can try to learn them on your own.

Taking classes is probably the best way to learn Microsoft Word. That way, you will have a professional instructor who can answer any questions that you have and help you master the software. If you decide to take classes, Certstaffix Training offers both online and group in-person options.

If you would prefer to learn on your own, there are some excellent resources available online. The Microsoft Office website has a lot of helpful tutorials that can walk you through the basics of using Word. You can also find many helpful YouTube videos that show you how to do specific tasks in Word.

How long does it take to learn MS Word?

A: Assuming you have little to no prior experience with Microsoft Word, you can expect to spend around 7-10 hours completing a basic Microsoft Word course on the software. However, keep in mind that there is a lot of variation in terms of how long it takes people to learn new software. Some individuals may be able to grasp the basics of Microsoft Word after just a few hours of training, while others may need more time to feel comfortable using the various features and tools. The best way to gauge how long it will take you to learn MS Word is to try out a few lessons and see how quickly you can pick up the concepts. If you find that you are struggling to understand the material, then you may want to give yourself more time to complete the course.

Ultimately, the amount of time it takes to learn MS Word will depend on your prior experience with the software and your general learning abilities. However, most people should be able to get a good handle on the basics after 10 hours or so of training.

What are the basic functions of Microsoft Word?

A: Microsoft Word is a word-processing program that allows users to create and edit text documents. It offers a variety of features that make it a powerful tool for both personal and professional use.

Some of the most important functions of Microsoft Word include:

  • Creating and editing text documents
  • Formatting text and paragraphs
  • Inserting images and other media
  • Creating hyperlinks
  • Creating tables and charts
  • Proofreading and spell checking
  • Collaborating with others on documents

Whether you're new to Word or simply need a refresher, our MS Word training classes can help you become more proficient in using this essential program. Contact us today to learn more about our class offerings.

What are the top Microsoft Word skills?

A: Some of the top Microsoft Word skills include knowing how to format text, create tables and insert images. Microsoft Word also has a number of features that can help make your documents look more professional, such as adding headers and footers, page numbering and using styles. If you're looking to really stand out, you can also learn how to create custom templates and macros. These skills will come in handy whether you're creating a simple document or a complex report.

If you want to be able to use Microsoft Word to its fullest potential, then you need to know how to format text. This includes knowing how to change the font, size, color and alignment of your text. You should also know how to create bulleted and numbered lists, as well as how to insert hyperlinks. Formatting your text properly can make a big difference in how professional your document looks.

Tables are another important skill to master in Microsoft Word. Tables can help you organize information and make it easier to read. If you know how to create and format tables, then you'll be able to create documents that look much more professional.

Finally, inserting images into your Microsoft Word document can really make it stand out. If you know how to insert and format images, then you can add pictures and graphics that will really help your document pop. These skills are essential for anyone who wants to create professional-looking documents in Microsoft Word. With a little practice, you'll be able to use all of these features to create stunning documents that will impress your boss or clients.

Where Can I Learn More About Microsoft Word?

Word Blogs

Word User Groups

Word Online Forums

Explore Microsoft Word Training Classes Near Me:

Certstaffix Training provides Microsoft Word classes near me or online, depending on the number of students involved. We offer online courses for individual learners, as well as in person classes at your office for corporate groups. Our trainers are highly experienced professionals with the expertise necessary to help you gain a thorough understanding of Microsoft Word concepts and tools. With our courses available online for individuals or in person for corporate groups, it's easy to develop your Microsoft Word skills. Start learning today and see how Certstaffix Training can help you reach your goals.







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