MasterClass 3 – Word Management and Troubleshooting

This is Micro-training, short, punchy training of less than three hours so that you can get on with your day

Getting Started with Microsoft Word Work with documents to format, cut and copy information within and between documents page layout – tabs – print – help. 1 Contact us to book 2 Pay ($225)

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An understanding of Word management will help you to avoid document corruption, odd behaviours and missing information. I’ve used and taught Word since it’s inception as a Word Perfect clone and have consulted widely in document management and recovery.

You are familiar with Word, actually you know quite a bit. But now your documents are being used by others or need to be set to organisational guides or standards. Let’s bring it all together so that you can manage Word so as to minimise disruption and fuss.

• If you have a troublesome document, introduce it during ‘document recovery basics’.

Courses 1 & 2 – Review

• select and work with text and paragraphs
• create high quality document designs and layouts

Word Management and Troubleshooting Course

• A walk on the wild side – discussion-based case studies of data loss and corrupt documents
• Principles of Creating Stable Documents and Templates
• When and where not to use tables
• Syles to avoid
• Troubleshooting
• Document recovery basics
  • Feel free to bring in your own documents that you are having trouble with*

A walk on the wild side – discussion-based case studies of data loss and corrupt documents

• Scenarios and case studies of documents-gone-wrong, data lost, inexplicable and bewildering document malfunctions and other difficulties
• Exemplars, fixes and workarounds
• Styles and Corruption
• The 10 most important things to teach your Word users

Principles of Creating Stable Documents and Templates

• Creating a Style Guide
• The 7 Laws of Outline Numbering

When and where not to use tables

• This is not really something Microsoft talks about, but over-use of tables can send your document into the ‘disaster bin’.
• Heading for trouble…

Syles to avoid

• We just had a look at how tables can be a problem, well actually…
• In addition to Table Styles, there’s…
• Unwanted Styles
• Styles to avoid

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshoot page and section breaks
• Troubleshoot Styles
• Run Word in Safe Mode

Document recovery basics

• Feel free to bring in your own documents that you are having trouble with and we’ll see what we can do to help you out.
  • *DO NOT share confidential or secure information in a group setting.
    If you have such a need, book a one-to-one facilitation or online session.
• There are many band-aids one could apply, but there’s only one sure-fire approach…
• Recovery – Word Commnands
• An easy way to Manage Word Styles

Course based upon part of the Level 1 Word from Watsonia Publishing