Goals

• Download and extract the practice files for Word 2013 Essential Training.
• Become familiar with the Word 2013 user interface.
• Be able to use a template to create a document.
• Be able to save and print documents.

Word, Week 1

• We will begin working our way through Microsoft Word.
• We will use the lessons in the Lynda.com course Word 2013 Essential Training
• To get started
  • Log into Lynda.com
  • Type word 2013 in the Browse the library box
  • Select Word 2013 Essential Training
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• Downloading the Exercise Files
  • You will want a copy of the exercise files
  • Select the Exercise Files tab in the upper left hand corner.
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  • Right click on Ex_Files_Word2013_EssT.zip
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  • Select save as
  • Select the drive you will save these files to (S:), USB
  • Go to the directory where you saved the .zip file
  • Right click on the zip file and select extract all
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  • This will create a directory containing the exercise files
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  • Make sure you put these files somewhere you can access them when you need them.
• Uploading to OneDrive
  • Go to your account on onedrive.live.com
  • Select the Upload button
  • Select folder
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  • Browse to the new folder and select it.
  • That will open a window that looks like this:
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• You can and should use these files to work through the exercises as they are presented.
• The introduction section is optional
• Chapter 1, Getting Started with Word
  • Launching Word
    • Launch word as we did OneNote
    • Please make sure that you use Word 2013, not Word 2010
    • This is a reasonable tour of the interface.
  • Opening, closing and reading documents,
    • This section introduces you to navigating through larger documents, and using the different views.
  • Using the Bookmark Feature
    • This introduces you to a new feature of word.
  • Calling up new documents with templates.
    • This section discusses templates and how to use templates to start a document.
  • Saving Documents:
    • You could probably skip this one.
  • Opening and Editing PDF documents
    • This idea is useful, but perhaps the video is not necessary
    • You can edit pdf documents.
    • Make sure you do a save as and select PDF when you save.
  • Printing Documents
    • This gives a nice overview of printing.