- Office Clipboard: This tool enables you to "collect" many pieces of information from any office program that is running so that you can then paste them all in one document if you want to. It also enables you to collect many pieces of information (text, images etc) and then have them available for you when you are ready to paste. It takes the concept of copy and paste to the next level.
- You'll learn how to make the Office clipboard appear automatically, copy and paste text using the office clipboard and deleting all information that is stored on the office clipboard onces you have finished with it.
- Learn about: Page breaks to help keep headings at the top of the page. You can use both the mouse (an menu bar options) or keyboard shortcuts to insert page breaks and you will also learn how to view the page breaks and delete them when they are no longer needed.
- Symbols are used to produce a creative effect in documents and especially when using bullets. There are symbols that represent commonly used information like Telephone, fax and email symbols.
- You'll learn: How to insert symbols and understand symbol subsets. There are literally hundreds of symbols and you can even use keyboard combinations to make symbols appear on your screen. A good example of when these symbols are used is foreign language symbols.
- Some common symbols are ' and ' and you'll learn how to get these and many more symbols like them into your document.
- Headers and Footers: This tool enables you to insert text or symbols in your document. they normally appear at the very top' and bottom of your document and contain information about the document such as filename, page numbers, copyright information etc.
- You'll learn: How to move from the document to the header/footer and back to the document, how to switch between the header and footer and how to quickly move around these areas using your mouse.
- Use tabs in the header/footer to professionally align the information and insert very quickly some document information with only a couple clicks. Information like the current date/time, total number of pages, filename and many more.
- Templates: this tool enables you to create professionally laid out documents once, and use them over and over again without accidentally changing them. The most common examples are letterheads, fax headers, reports etc. Word actually comes with a large range of templates but you can also create as many as you want of your own.
- You'll learn: Where Word gets the page settings when it creates a blank new document. Where to find the many 'pre' created Word templates that come with the program, and how to start building your own professional templates.
- You'll understand the commom mistakes that people believe about templates and use them more effectively in your workplace, own business or even in a schooling environment to create professional documents over and over.
Best of all, the great work you produce will be consistantly professional.