Microsoft Word for Mac - Office 365 on Mac OS

Just a welcome for all newly enrolled students.

A guided tour of the Microsoft Word for Mac OS application, so the the students know the location of everything, this will provide them with a good grounding for the next lectures

This lecture is just to hold all the resources needed for the course.

In this section we will look at opening Microsoft Word for the first time. We will look at the different templates and how we would choose a template and use it. 

In this lecture we look at saving a document for later use, we also look at saving different versions of a document.

In this lecture we also seen how to switch between open documents.

We will cover a number of different parts in this lecture, all are focused with making you quicker and more efficient at your work

In this section we will look at entering text and symbols. We will look at how to position the cursor so that the text is entered at the exact point we want,

Use the built in feature in Microsoft Word to automatically find and replace text

Copying and pasting are one of the most widely used features in Microsoft Word, so it is important that students have a good understanding of each process, in this lecture we will go through a couple of different scenarios.

In this section we will look at the different formatting options, we will look at font type and size, colour and style.

In this lecture we will look at paragraphs, we will look at the way we can create paragraphs by merging and splitting other paragraphs.

We will also look at the way paragraphs are aligned and the different times you would use the different alignment option.

In this section we will look at indenting paragraphs. We will look at the different indents that we can do and the different times that we can do them.

We will also look at setting up tabs so that we can properly align text and lists.

In this lecture we will look at line spacing, the correct way to do it and the reasons behind doing it.

We will also look at applying bullets and numbers to a list.

And we will look at adding borders to text and paragraphs.

In this lecture we will focus on two main items, paragraphs styles and format painter, Both are used as a way to increase productivity.

The paragraph styles and styles in general can be used to make sure that all you styles and headings are the same through out a document, this ensures that Microsoft word can pick up headings when doing table of contents.

The format painter is used to match two types of formatting.

Learn how to create a table and then complete all the formatting changes that can be made to it.

In this section we will look at creating charts and some of the main formatting options that can be applied to charts.

This lecture is all about pictures and shapes. we look at inserting pictures and also the different changes that we can make to the pictures.

We also look at shapes, putting shapes into a document, resizing and grouping them.

Mail merge is one of the more advanced options in Microsoft word. It is the thing that employers will ask for when sounding out an employee for a job that involves word processing. This lecture takes mail merge from start to finish.

In this lecture we will look at the way we can set up the document to enhance the finished version. We will look at Margins, orientation, Paper size, Page breaks and Headers/footers.

This lecture looks at the final print settings.

In this lecture we will look at how we can put Landscape and portrait pages within the same Microsoft word document. this can be used to really make your documents look professional.

In this section we will look at adding a table of contents to your documents, the table of contents and Microsoft Word allows users to be able to find information quickly and allows you to be able to make the most of your documents.