Manually formatting a Word document

This is a step-by-step manual to teach the basics of working in Microsoft Word documents. Eventually, I hope to make it into an online training course but this is the initial self-help version.

1. First, I tell you how to create your own shortcuts to speed up how you do things.
2. Secondly, you will learn how to move around in a document.
3. Then we take an unformatted document and turn it into a business letter.
4. After that, we format a table in Word.
5. Thereafter, we format the same information into an Excel table.
6. I show you how to do some Excel calculations.
7. Finally, we import the Excel table into the Word document.

Note: This page is a work-in-progress. The list of what you will learn will grow longer. The list items are linked to blog posts.

What you will learn in this course

1. Microsoft Word terminology
2. How to create your own keyboard shortcuts
3. Navigation
4. Options
5. Page Layout

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