Word course for beginners: Learn the basics from A to Z

Why you should attend this course: Here you can see the promotional video for this course again to give you a brief overview.

In this basic section, learn how to create a Word document and what options you have for saving this document.

In this lesson, I will show you the setting options that you can use to print Word documents in an appealing and suitable way. The multitude of setting options can quickly make you lose track.

Since Office 365, Microsoft has been working constantly to make sharing documents effective and easy. In this lesson, you will learn how easy it is to put a document online or share it with your colleagues and friends.

There is an export function in Word to convert a Word document into a PDF. In this lesson, you will find out why you should convert a Word document into a PDF and what advantages this has.

Use the clipboard and copy and paste text, images and web pages. However, the clipboard has even more functions than you might think at first glance.

Every Word document can be designed and formatted using numerous functions. In this lesson, you will learn how to change fonts and edit the size and appearance of the font. With a brief insight into the style sheets, you will be able to improve the readability of your documents with just a few clicks.

In this lesson, you will learn all about paragraph formatting, how to center, align and adjust paragraphs correctly. You will also learn how to show paragraph marks and how to increase and decrease indents. Later in the lesson, you will also learn how to select and define design colors and borders for your paragraphs.

Here I'll show you how to format paragraphs with numbering and list style. Write to-do, shopping and chore lists in your Word documents using the appropriate list format. Whether dotted or numbered doesn't matter here, there is a suitable format for everything.

Search your Word document and get to know the replace function. This can save a lot of time if you have large documents where specific words need to be found or replaced.

Cover pages are the first thing your counterpart sees when they open the document or receive it in their hand. The first impression is just as important as the content of a document. Here I'll show you how to insert and use cover pages, blank pages and page breaks.

You can insert simple tables and even complex Excel tables into a Word document. In this lesson, I will show you how you can use tables for your document.

Learn how to work with images in Word. Many people often report problems when they want to insert images into their documents. However, these problems are all unfounded if you know what is important. An image does not necessarily have to have display problems. With very simple tips and tricks, I will show you everything you need to know and how you can embellish your documents with images. It is now also possible to integrate online graphics with just a few clicks.

Design your documents with lines, stars, legends, arrows or rectangles. Word offers a wealth of shapes that you can easily use. Learn here how adaptable the shapes are.

A SmartArt graphic is a visual representation of your information that you can create quickly and easily. You can choose between many different layouts to effectively convey your message or ideas.

You can also use and insert charts in Word to display information graphically. Word and Excel offer an extensive selection of charts. In this lesson, I will show you how to use the charts and insert them into your document.

Create and insert screenshots easily with Word - this function saves you an incredible amount of time and allows you to easily insert and edit screenshots within Word. Word offers a great way to create a wide variety of screenshots.

You can get even more out of Word with add-ins. I'll show you here how you can quickly and easily cite Wikipedia articles, use translations into 100 other languages within Word and how you can use a percentage calculator. Add-ins give you access to even more functions.

It has recently become possible to embed entire videos in Word. In this lesson, I will show you how to find and embed suitable videos from YouTube or Bing, for example. Please note, however, that you cannot print videos!

A bookmark identifies a specific word, section or position in your document. You use it to name and mark the word, section or position for later reference. With a cross-reference, you can create a link to other parts of the same document.

Word automatically creates a link when you press Enter or the space bar after typing a URL (e.g. http://www.thinksecret.at).

Sometimes you may also want to create a link to text, an image or a specific location in a document. The steps required for this are listed below.

You can insert a comment with speech bubbles that are displayed in the margins of the document. Comments are useful for adding notes at certain points in the text. But the comment function can do much more - I'll show you here.

Headers and footers are the areas in the top, bottom and side margins that are included on every page in the document. You can insert and change text or graphics in headers and footers. For example, you can add page numbers, the date and time, a company logo, the title of the document, the file name or the author's name.

Learn what text boxes, quick blocks and WordArt are. Create beautiful text headings, text boxes and use the quick blocks to give your Word documents a beautiful design.

Learn how to insert mathematical symbols and formulas. Using the Symbol dialog box, you can insert symbols such as ¼ and © or special characters such as the em dash (-) or ellipsis (...) that are not available on the keyboard, as well as Unicode characters.

You can use style sheets to format your document so that you can apply a range of formatting options quickly, easily and consistently across the entire document.

Use watermarks in your Word documents, for example, to make a copy of an invoice recognizable or to mark a document as trustworthy.

You can apply a page color to the pages. Instead of color, you can apply a texture or image and adjust the settings for patterns and gradients.

Page margins are the empty spaces at the edges of a page. Generally, text and graphics are inserted in the printable area between the margins. However, you can also place certain elements in the margins, such as headers and footers or page numbers.

Learn how to format your documents in landscape or portrait format, how to insert columns, design them in multiple lines and adapt them to the respective format with predefined margins.

There are several types of breaks in Word. Set line, page or column breaks to format your Word document.

Line numbering can also be displayed in Word. There are several ways to include this numbering at document level or at page level. You can find out how this works here.

Hyphenation in Word has three states. I will show you all the hyphenation methods in this lesson and how you can use them.

Learn about paragraph formatting in Word 2016, how to make indents and how to influence the spacing between paragraphs.

Word also works with layers, as you may already know from various graphics programs. In order to use layers correctly, however, there are a few things to bear in mind, as layers behave differently in Word than you may be used to. Show and hide layers or make them appear in the foreground and background. Label the layers to maintain an overview.

In this video, I'll show you how you can easily insert a sample text with paragraphs into a blank Word document without much effort.

Creating a manual table of contents with Word is very easy! However, this means a lot of extra work and is prone to errors. In this lesson, I will show you how to create a manual table of contents.

Every magazine has one and every Word document could have one too - the table of contents. In this video, I show you how to design your Word document so that you can insert a table of contents automatically, without much extra effort, with automatic number updating.

Further information on specific words or paragraphs can be explained using footnotes. This promotes the flow of reading and you can store all the information in a document in a more targeted way.

With your own citation and bibliography, you can save yourself a lot of work with extensive papers. Citations can be easily inserted and listed together at the end with a bibliography. Word helps you with the correct formatting and appearance, based on various standards.

Use captions to display your images, videos, tables and formulas in a uniform caption format and then summarize them nicely in a list of figures.

Indexes or keywords can be summarized in a separate A-Z index. Here you will learn how to create an index and then update it without having to manually edit the page numbers. An index is an important factor, especially for books or reference works.

Learn how to print envelopes and prepare them for dispatch. Using your own tables, you can create several hundred envelopes with different recipients with just a few clicks.

Learn how to create labels and how to find the right templates. You can customize the labels and give each label a different name. It only takes a few clicks to create several hundred labels.

Learn how to create a mail merge, how to add greeting fields and how to differentiate between "Mr." and "Mrs.". Using a small Excel spreadsheet, you can define recipients without having to write everything yourself.

Use the spell checker in your Word to catch mistakes. You can add words to your dictionary and the spell checker can learn many new words from you that are just right for you.

Are you looking for a suitable alternative word for your text? With Thesaurus, Word gives you the option of searching for alternative words if you can't think of anything suitable.

In this lesson, you will learn how to perform a word count in an entire document and how to perform a count in individual, selected areas.

Check facts or phrases in your documents with Bing-powered intelligent lookup. Simply highlight phrases in your documents and use this feature to pull search results from the web directly into your reading or authoring environment.

Use the Word function to translate your text directly within Word. Word offers extensive translation options for this.

Comments on a Word document can be very helpful. If you are not sure about some text passages, simply create a few comments for the texts concerned and have another person check them. The checker can then concentrate specifically on the text passages with comments and reply to them.

Tracking can be started if several or other people are also working on this document. This allows you to quickly see what has been changed.

You can use the compare function in Word to compare two Word documents for differences. For example, if you have received a corrected version, you can simply use it to compare and check it.

Learn how to protect documents from changes. There are several options for protecting a document. For example, you can assign a password to a document to protect it from unauthorized access.

Do you want to protect your documents from unauthorized access? Then use the option of document encryption with a password.

What are the differences in the views? Why do you need the reading mode, the page layout, the web layout, the outline and draft mode? Many views also have many functions and often show what is hidden in a document.

Central documents make it possible to divide a large document into individual, separate branch documents (such as a book into chapters) and to organize and manage them.

You can also display tools in Word documents. Blender rulers and grids or navigation areas. Learn how to use them, draw indents over the rulers and edit the margins with one click!

Change the zoom level to adapt the Word document to your screen. Display several pages side by side or set the page widths.

Learn to multitask with your Word: open several windows, split windows and merge them again. Apply the synchronous screen flow and make practical use of it.

A little insight into Word macros! Learn how to create and use macros. In this video, I'll show you a small example of a macro that you can do a lot with.