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Microsoft Word: Documents That Hold Together

Reports, contracts and manuals built with styles, sections and fields instead of spaces and guesswork.

Microsoft Word: Documents That Hold Together

About this course

Most people can type in Word. The trouble starts on page thirty, when the client asks for a different heading size, an appendix numbered from one, and a table of contents that matches the pages it points to.

This course is about the difference between making something look right by hand and setting it up once so it stays right. You will work with formatting marks, paragraph styles, an automatic table of contents, section breaks and page numbering, multilevel lists, tables, image wrapping, tracked changes and PDF export.

Every lesson is built around a failure you have probably already seen: the heading missing from the contents, the numbering that starts over in the middle of a contract, the screenshot that jumps to the next page, the tracked changes that reached the client by accident.

Course curriculum

  1. What a Word document is made of

    Formatting marks, paragraphs and breaks — the layer under the text that decides whether the document survives editing.

    • 1.Turn on formatting marks before you touch anything12 min
    • 2.Paragraph settings instead of manual spacing13 min

  2. Styles and the table of contents

    Set the formatting once in a style, mark the headings, and let Word build and update the contents itself.

    • 1.Paragraph styles: format it once14 min
    • 2.Heading styles and the document outline11 min
    • 3.A table of contents that updates itself13 min

  3. Sections, page numbers and lists

    Where page setup is allowed to change, how numbering restarts on purpose, and why clause numbers go wrong.

    • 1.Headers, footers and page numbers13 min
    • 2.Section breaks and numbering that restarts on purpose14 min
    • 3.Lists that keep their numbering12 min

  4. Objects, review and handover

    Tables and images that stay where you put them, comments and tracked changes, and a document that leaves your machine safely.

    • 1.Tables and images that stay where you put them15 min
    • 2.Review, print and PDF15 min