In this post, please reflect on your experiences working with the Microsoft Word Tutorials presented in this week’s readings. You can share the document you created, and describe what you did (e.g. adding a list, formatting heading levels). Also, I’d like you to share the direct link of the tutorial that was “your choice”—and explain why it was useful to you and how it might be useful to others. Finally, what else do you want to learn? Post that learning goal and chances are, in a response, a classmate will provide you a resource.
Microsoft Word Tutorials
“How to Really Use Microsoft Word: Word Styles 101”
“How to create and customize headings in Word”
“Lists”
“Creating a table of contents in Microsoft Word”
your Choice—find an MS Word tutorial that suits your learning needs—be prepared to share this with us.
Please read and comment on a minimum of two classmates’ posts.
CLassmate post 1:
The Microsoft Word tutorial that I chose to watch was “Creating a table of contents in Microsoft Word”. Before I watching this video I never knew the specific way to create a table of contents. When setting it up you first have to set up your headings in the home tab. After making headings for all of your sections, you then go to references in the tool bar and the you would click table of contents.Within the table of contents there are different styles for how you would want your table of contents to look. In my document I tried my best to follow the instructions in the video to make mine look as neat as possible. In high school I was taught how to use the main parts of word like making headings and inserting images but making a table of contents was fairly new to me.
Classmate post 2:
Through the Microsoft Word practice videos I learned many things including keyboard shortcuts, creating headings and the importance of them, utilizing a navigation pane, creating lists, and creating a table of contents. Some keyboard shortcuts I learned were ctrl+scrolling will zoom in and out of the page, ctrl+z undoes an action, ctrl+y will redo an action, ctrl+a selects all text, and ctrl+s saves a document.
Headings are important for creating an automatic table of contents, creating bookmarks in a pdf using adobe acrobat, using words outline feature, and using words navigate feature. In order to create a heading, select the home tab in the ribbon, select the text desired to be a heading, and select the appropriate heading in the styles group. Headings are also used to easily navigate long documents through the navigation pane.
There are three types of lists. Bulleted lists, numbered lists, and multilevel lists. To create a bulleted list, select the text desired to be turned into a list, click the bullets command, and select the dropdown for any customization wanted. To create a numbered list, repeat the same process but select the numbering command rather than the bulleted command. The distance between the bullets/numbers and the text can be altered by selecting the text and dragging the hanging indent ruler at the top of the document. A multilevel list can be created by pressing tab on a new bullet to increase the level, or move it to the right. The level can be decreased, or moved to the left by holding shift and pressing tab.
A table of contents can be very useful for long documents. In order to create one, all sections that need to be included in the table of contents must have proper headings. After that is certain, the table of contents button can be found on the references tab. You can select an automatic or a manual table but automatic is usually the better option. The table will go wherever the mouse has most recently been clicked. The table can be updated by pressing “update table” after clicking on the table. If the page numbers need to be updated, click update page numbers. If a new section needs to be added to the table, click update entire table.
The content I chose for myself was a video about keyboard shortcuts. Shortcuts are useful to everyone because they save a lot of time and if you can make them muscle memory they are amazing tools. In the future, I would like to learn more helpful keyboard shortcuts.
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