Word Tutorials - - A Guide to Word Tutorials, Pt. 2

Part 2: Word Tutorials for Intermediate Users

It is quite possible to create documents without having to change any of the settings – you can work around most of the formatting and options the program tries to impose on you, and your results will be decent.

But why settle for decent when you can have a top-notch document without much added effort?

With the intermediate Word tutorials, we learn how to customize documents and then move on to customizing your settings, so that Word responds more effectively to your input.

My mission is to help you achieve your word processing goals: If there’s something not covered in these Word tutorials that you’d like to know more about, email me; if there are enough requests, I’ll be sure consider it for inclusion. Be sure to bookmark this page (Ctrl + D) and check back often for updates!


1. Working with Margins

2. Changing the Page Orientation

3. Changing the Paper Size

4. Spelling and Grammar
-Working with dictionaries


5. The Thesaurus

6. Headers and Footers

7. Working with Columns

8. Inserting Outlook Contact Information

9. Inserting Non-text Objects
-Clipart
-Photographs
-Using Word to Edit Photographs
-Controlling Image Sizes
-Textboxes
-Adding watermarks

10. Customizing Word
-Window Features
-AutoCorrect
-AutoText
-Enabling/Disabling AutoComplete
-Saving Word Settings

11. Templates
-Creating
-Downloading Templates
-Changing Default Document Template

12. Smart Tags

13. Document Properties
-Adding a preview image

14. Speech Recognition
-Training
-Dictation Mode
-Command Mode

15. Handwriting Recognition

16. Checking for Consistency

17. Inserting Comments in Documents

Please note that these were developed for Word 2002, the version included in Office XP. While most of the introductory information and the basic commands will apply to most versions, not all features will be available to users who have a version released prior to 2002. If you have a question about a feature, your first resource should be the help files included with your installation of Word. They can be accessed by using the F1 key.