Creating Professional

Business Documents with Word 365

E-Book

The Step-by-Step Word 365 E-Book for Creating Professional Business Documents with Microsoft 365 Word.

Just $9.99

Thinking of starting a career as an Office Professional in 2023? 

Want to get a kick-start on your Office Skills? 

In this step by step Word365 E-Book for Creating Professional Business Documents, you learn everything you need to know to hit the ground running day 1 and start cranking out professional looking business collateral.

Longtime Office Skills Instructor, Dawn Bieser demonstrates techniques and shows you a road map to quickly build and enhance your office skills.

This e-book is perfect for the beginning Office Skills professional or anyone who wants to learn the practical skills required to work in an office, such as the Office Assistant, Receptionist, Administrative Assistant or Virtual Assistant.

The goal of this e-book is not just to teach you how to use Microsoft Word but to show you how to properly format and type professional looking business documents for use in business. Topics covered include studying the different parts of business documents and learning how to properly create and format them in Word. The Ribbon interface, selecting and editing text, printing, using Word’s built-in proofreading tools, creating bulleted and numbered lists, inserting and styling tables and adding and styling images are just some of the topics explored. The Word 365 E-Book also accompanies the Creating Business Documents with Word Online course offered on officeskills.org

What’s in the Word 365 E-book?

How to find your way around the Word Interface

• Learning business letter formats, major parts of a business letter and how to properly format them in Microsoft Word
• Hands-on step-by-step practice lessons
• How to edit business documents using Word’s built-in tools
• How to create memos and attachments
• How to use Word’s built-in Proofing tools
• How to format simple business reports and apply styles and themes to your documents
• How to create attractive flyers using tables and pictures
• And more….

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION TO WORD

• Starting Word
• The Word Start Screen
• Viewing the Word Window
• Maximize the Word Window
• The Backstage View
• Tell me what you want to do help feature
• Opening Documents
• Opening Older Word Documents
• Customizing the Quick Access Toolbar
• The Ruler and Status Bar
• Moving around in a Word Document
• Viewing Files in Different ways
• Saving Documents
• Closing Documents
• Starting a New, Blank Document

CREATING A BUSINESS LETTER

• Business Letter Formats
• Understanding Block Style and Modified Block Style letters and when to use them
• Identify major parts of a business letter
• Typing a business letter
• Set single line spacing
• Using Word Wrap and the Enter Key
• Showing Formatting Marks
• Creating a Business Envelope with Mail Merge
• Saving Your Work using the Save As Command
• Print and Print Preview
• Changing Print Setting

EDITING BUSINESS DOCUMENTS

• Opening a document
• Selecting Text and Selection Techniques
• Editing Text and Inserting and Deleting Text
• Using Undo and Redo
• Using AutoCorrect
• Using the ClipBoard
• Cut, copy, paste and move text
• Editing with Drag and Drop
• Working with Margins

CREATING A TRADITIONAL MEMORANDUM AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT

• Parts of a traditional memo
• Typing a traditional memo
• Understand Tab stops
• Inserting page breaks
• Inserting and Formatting the Date
• Copying text from other documents
• Word’s Side to Side feature
• PROOFING YOUR BUSINESS DOCUMENTS
• Set up your proofing option
• Using the Spelling Checker and the Grammar Checker
• Using the Thesaurus to Find a Synonym
• Using Find and Replace

FORMAT A BUSINESS REPORT

• Parts of a Business Report
• Business Report Example
• Formatting Reports using Paragraph Formatting
• Formatting Reports with Character Formatting
• Using Paragraph Alignment
• Indenting Text
• Setting Custom Tab Stops including setting Custom Tab Stops with the Ruler
• Working with the Tabs Dialog Box to set Custom Tab Stops
• Using Bulleted and Numbered Lists
• Adding Borders and Shading to paragraphs
• Applying styles to your documents
• Using Document Themes

CREATING A FLYER USING TABLES AND PICTURES

• Adding text effects to titles
• Introducing Tables and viewing Gridlines
• Navigating in a Table
• Inserting Tables including Using Table Tools
• Exploring the Layout and Design Tabs
• Selecting Data in a Table
• Aligning Data in a Table
• Merging and Splitting Cells
• Adding Borders and Shading to a Table
• Sorting Data in a Table
• Inserting Rows and Columns and Moving Rows and Columns
• Sizing Rows and Columns
• Dragging to Adjust Row Heights and Column Widths
• The Table Contextual tabs
• Using Table Styles to Format a Table
• Inserting and Styling Images

To improve your office skills  today, take the Administrative Office Professional online course on officeskills.org.

This course is taught in the Office Skills Collaborative Online Classroom. The Office Skills Collaborative Online Classroom is a fun and interactive way to learn Soft Skills. Get the benefit of learning online while being in a classroom environment with an instructor, other students, discussion forums, chat rooms, lectures, presentations and video demonstrations