Get the essential Word skills you need to hit the desk running on your first day. Note this includes Styles training. That might not be a feature that comes first to mind, but editors in the modern workplace consider this essential knowledge!
Take all the “core” courses to become the complete Editing in Word expert.
The resource for this course is 65 pages and well over 21,500 words, plus almost 70 minutes of demo videos and self-check exercises!
Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 19 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- How to Use This CourseThe video demos and exercises in this multimedia course are an integral part of the learning. The videos show how the tools actually work, and how to navigate the Word environment on both Mac and Windows computers. The exercises help you check your learning. For a great many topics there are integrated instructions and two sets of accompanying videos: one for Mac users and one for Windows. Video demos, updates, and further reading are found in this course website. Concentrate on the tools, not the editing. Remember that this guide is not teaching or assessing editing skills and grammar. Do not fret over “editing right.” You can even markup nonsense, as you will see the author do in the demos. The point is to practice using Word’s tools. The course is arranged by tool, roughly in order of importance to an editor’s work.3
- Session 1—Track ChangesWe'll start with the top tool for professional editors: Track Changes. It can be as simple as turning it on and working away, but there's a lot more that makes it useful (and bothersome).4
- Session 2—StylingWord's Styles are far more than font choices. Styles code the paragraph (or just a few characters, optionally) in XML that can be picked up by other tools to do things like automatically create a table of contents, to generate entries in the Document Map or Navigation, designate the content blocks in Outline view, and translate content structures to systems like WordPress, Blackboard, and InDesign.4
- Session 3—Find & ReplaceCtrl + F should be your second-favourite shortcut after ctrl + S, since the ability to search a document is one of the fundamental benefits of using a word processor. This section helps you turbo charge this fundamental function. (For Mac users, that’s cmd + F and cmd + S.)6
- Session 4—The Old Guard: features we take for grantedWe use these in every program, but Word has extra layers of function that make these features perform magic.3
- ConclusionThis concludes our time together. I hope to see you in one of the other core courses or in a skill bite!1
There are instructions and demos for both Mac and Windows versions of Word.
We can support versions as old as 2016 but do try to keep the materials current, as Word changes frequently.
Yes! This material is available separately as individual "skill bites." This version groups together the "essential" skill bites into one essential package!
Requirements
- MS Word, 2016 or newer
- Video player (e.g., web browser)
- Ebook reader for a PDF, epub, or mobi file
Features
- Instructions specifically for editors and proofreaders
- Demonstrations for both Mac and Windows users
- Self-paced
- Keep the course resource (lectures) forever
Target audiences
- Editors
- Proofreaders
- Copyeditors
- Editorial workflow professionals