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9 lessons Grades 4+, parents and job seekers

Microsoft Word for Beginners

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9 short lessons, from your first document to a neat paper ready to hand in. Each lesson ends with a short practice task and a 4-question quiz.

Start: Your first document →

All lessons

  1. ✍️ 1. Your first documentOpen a document, type, save and undo a mistake
  2. 🎨 2. Formatting textFont, size, bold, color and the Format Painter
  3. 📐 3. Paragraphs, alignment and listsAlignment, bullets, numbering, indents and line spacing
  4. 🏷️ 4. Headings and stylesHeading 1 and Heading 2, the Navigation Pane and updating a style
  5. ▦ 5. TablesInsert a table, add rows and columns, design and merge cells
  6. 🖼️ 6. Pictures and shapesInsert a picture, resize it, wrap text and add alt text
  7. 📄 7. A neat pageMargins, orientation, page breaks, headers and page numbers
  8. 🎓 8. A paper ready to hand inTitle page, table of contents, footnotes, spell check and PDF
  9. ⚡ 9. Time-saving tricksFind and replace, paste without formatting, templates and sharing

✏️ Practice: No Word on this computer? Practice in our free online document editor

About this course

The course follows Word for Microsoft 365. Almost everything works the same way in Word 2016, 2019 and 2021, and in Google Docs — only some menu names are a little different.

Each lesson takes 5 to 10 minutes: read a short explanation, do the practice on your computer, and answer the quiz. Your progress is saved in this browser, and a lesson whose quiz you passed gets a ✅.

Questions & answers

Do I need Word installed to learn?
No. The explanations and quizzes are here on the site. To practice you can use Word, the free Word for the web from Microsoft, Google Docs, or the Thinkabara online document editor.
Who is this course for?
Anyone starting from zero: students from about 4th grade who need to hand in papers, parents, and job seekers who need to write a resume and cover letter.
Does it work on a Mac?
Yes. On a Mac, use the Command (⌘) key wherever the lessons say Ctrl — for example ⌘+S to save and ⌘+B for bold.
How much does the course cost?
Nothing. It is free, with no sign-up and no ads inside the lessons.

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