Jan's Working with Words

Report Template

• Create a new document using a template
• Remove unnecessary parts of the template
• Deal with warning messages
• Replace temporary text
• Insert a file into a document
• Update styles

Works Cited Page

• Add a page at the end
• Create source in Word's master list
• Insert a bibliography
• Edit source with Source Manager
• Remove source with Source Manager
• Create a new style

References

• Insert a parenthetical reference
• Insert an explanatory reference as a footnote
• Change Note Options

Create a Table

• Create a table with Table button
• Resize table
• Resize column width
• Sort table rows without header row
• Insert a new row
• Sort table rows with header row
• Resize row height
• Center table on the page
• Center text vertically in the cell
• Apply a table style
• Reapply manual formatting removed by table style

Draw a Table

• Draw the outside of a table
• Draw lines in a table
• TAB between table cells
• Distribute rows and columns evenly
• Erase and redraw cell borders
• Move text between cells
• Add a row inside a table
• Add a column inside a table

Format Table

• Format table text
• Center table and table text
• Format cell background and font color
• Move rows and columns
• Merge cells
• Split cells
• See what happens to formatting as rows and columns are moved

Add a Table

• Draw a table in an existing document
• Apply Table style
• Center table and wrap text
• Use AutoSum and view formula
• Right align numbers

Table of Contents

• Prepare to creat a Table of Contents
• Insert a Table of Contents
• Update the Table of Contents

Shrink a Document

• Increase font size for the whole document at once
• Show styles plus added formatting in the Styles Pane
• Use Shrink to Fit
• Reduce margins with Page Setup
• Adjust spacing

Section Headers

• Create a header for each section

Properties

• See file properties in a File Explorer window
• Access a document's properties from inside Word
• Reduce a document's file size