Microsoft Word: Long Document Tools

Learn to create professional-looking research papers and proposals. You will add headers and footers, set page layout, create title pages, tables of contents and indices. You will create outlines and use the outlines for organizing and managing long documents. You will create references for automatically generating tables of illustrations. You will create a master document for combining multiple files into one.

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Lesson 1: Page Layout, Headers and Footers

In this course we are going to focus on the tools that Word has available for creating longer documents, like research papers, reports, books or any other type of document that may run more than a few pages. While you may already be familiar with some of these features from your experience in using Word, we will look at features and options you may not have had a chance to explore before.

Lesson 2: Outlines and Formatting Text Using Styles

In the last lesson we focused on getting the document structure formatted. In this lesson we will work on how to format the document content. We will review Character Formatting and Paragraph Formatting as an introduction for learning to build styles. Styles allow you to memorize formatting you use frequently. For example, if you write papers that have to be MLA or APA formatted, you could set the default text styles to match the required formats.

Lesson 3: Inserting a Table of Content and an Index and Other References

In this lesson we will learn to mark up our document to create an index, table of contents, footnotes and page references. 

Lesson 4: Creating Master Documents

Some papers can become very large very quickly and on an older or slower computer, large documents can run very slowly. To make things easier, Word allows us to divide large documents into smaller parts and then combine them to create the final document with a table of content and index.