Updated 2018.07.27
Editing text
- Insert and delete text
- Use Undo and Redo (ctrl+z)
- Use cut (ctrl+x), copy (ctrl+c),
paste (ctrl+v)
- Use find (ctrl+f) and replace
(ctrl+h)
- Use find and replace with
formats, special characters and non-printing elements
- Insert date and time codes
- Insert symbols

- Create and apply frequently used
text with AutoCorrect
- Insert and remove page breaks
- Insert and remove line breaks
- Insert and remove column breaks
Formatting text
- Set font name
- Set font size
- Set font style (bold, italic,
underline)
- Set font color
- Set other character effects
(superscript, subscript, strikethrough, small caps, outline, etc.)
- Define, apply, and remove styles
Formatting paragraphs
- Set alignment (Center, Left,
Right and Justified)
- Set line spacing (single, 1.15,
1½, double)
- Set character spacing options
- Set paragraph spacing options
(before, after)
- Set indentation options (Left,
Right, First Line and Hanging Indent)
- Create and modify a bulleted
list
- Create and modify a numbered
list
- Create a drop-cap
- Apply borders and shading to
paragraphs
- Sort lists, paragraphs, tables
- Use
text flow options (Windows/Orphans options and keeping lines together)
- Create
an outline style numbered list
Formatting sections
- Create sections with formatting
that differs from other sections
·
Set page
orientation for a section/document
·
Set page margins
for a section/document
·
Create and modify
header/footer for a section/document
- Create and modify page numbers
for a section/document
- Create and use newspaper columns
for a section/document
- Revise column structure for a
section
- Balance column length (using
column breaks appropriately)
Working with documents
- Use the spelling/grammar checker
- Use the thesaurus
- Create a new document using a template
- Navigate through a document
using mouse and keyboard
- Use
"click & type"
- Create and modify page borders
- Create a cover page
- Create a reference source
- Create/revise footnotes/endnotes
- Create a bibliography
- Create watermarks
- Save a document with a different
file type (e.g. HTML)
- Use GoTo to locate specific elements in a document
- Use
bookmarks
File Skills
·
Open,
close, save a file
·
Save
a file with a new name
·
Save
a file as a different document type (e.g. PDF, HTML)
·
Print
a document
Positioning text: Using tabs
- Set/clear tab stops (Center,
Decimal, Left and Right)
- Create tab stops with leaders
Positioning text: Using Tables
- Create and format tables
- Set borders and shading
- Revise tables (insert &
delete rows and columns, change cell formats)
- Modify table structure (merge
cells, change height and width)
- Rotate text in a table
- Embed worksheets in a table
- Perform calculations in a table
- Link Excel data as a table
- Modify worksheets in a table
Working with pictures and charts
- Create a text box
- Set the properties of a text box
- Insert drawing objects (clip
art, pictures, shapes, SmartArt, WordArt, charts, screenshots, etc.)
- Format a drawing object using
the drawing tools
- Use advanced text alignment
features with graphics
- Position graphics
- Delete graphics
- Create
and modify charts (see Excel)
- Import
data into charts (see Excel)
Using mail merge
- Create main document
- Create data source
- Sort records to be merged
- Merge main document and data
source
- Prepare and print envelopes and
labels
- Merge a document using alternate
data sources
Automating tasks
- Record a macro
- Customize toolbars/ribbons
Collaborating with workgroups
- Insert comments
- Track changes to a document
- Protect
documents
- Create
multiple versions of a document
- Set
default file location for workgroup templates
Working with very large documents
- Create and modify a table of
contents
- Create and modify an index
- Work with
master documents and subdocuments