Microsoft Word 2011

1. Microsoft Word 2011

2. Microsoft Office for Mac: Ribbon Tabs • Home – houses the most frequently used tools (font and paragraph formatting) • Layout – houses the next most frequently used tools (page setup, margins, text layout, and page background) • Document elements • Tables – adding and formatting tables • Charts – adding and formatting charts • SmartArt – adding and formatting all of the SmartArt graphics • Review – Track Changes and all of the reviewing tools. • Add your own customizations to the Ribbon and get exactly what you want, where you want it.

3. Full Screen View Full Screen View allows for a distraction free experience with two modes. • Write Mode – commands are hidden until you reveal them. • Read Mode – read a document as you would a book, with page curl animations and minimal menu distractions.

4. Styles Creating a Styles Guide allows you to quickly change all of the associated content in the entire document. • Add text to a style so that it can easily be changed in the future. • Remove style formatting with the Clear Formatting command.

5. Searching your Document A search box is now located in the upper right-hand corner of Word 2011. • Search box is a live search, in that it will highlight the words in your document that match your search criteria while you are still typing your search term. • Open the Word Sidebar to see a full list of all of the search results in the entire document. • The sidebar can be used to search and replace text as well as special characters such as paragraph marks.

6. Layouts Made Easy Publishing layout view – transforms Word for Mac into an easy to use publishing tool. Reorder Objects tool – move and reorder objects on the page by dragging the layer.

7. Create Beautiful Publications Applying Ligatures – decorative or joined characters are available for certain characters in some fonts. Stylistic sets – quickly change selected text into a variety of different styles Context Alternative characters Font-based kerning Number Forms and Spacing

8. Professional Quality Documents Word Document Gallery – Templates that make it easy to produce great looking documents. • Templates are customizable – add your own colors, iPhoto pictures and themes to the templates to make them your own. • Includes templates for resumes, business cards, calendars, and more.

9. Media Browser Add pictures, music or a movie to your document. • Provides instant access to your photos, music, movies and images such as shapes, clip art, and symbols. • Displays photos from iPhoto and Photo Booth libraries • Music from iTunes playlists • Movies from iMovie, Photo Booth and iTunes.

10. Equations in Word 2011 For the first time a robust equation tool set within Word. • Equation Tools – located on their own tab in the Ribbon for Word 2011. • A vast gallery of equations are available.

11. Work Efficiently with Macros Visual Basic is available for Word for Mac 2011. • Create macros to automate tasks that you perform often. • Create macros that add customization (menus, dialogs, and so on) to your Word documents. • Focus on being productive and creative by programming the repetitious tasks into Macros.

12. Training Resources • Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac website - http://www.microsoft.com/mac/how-to • SHSU’s Newton Gresham Library’s Safari Techbooks Online books - http://library.shsu.edu/research/databases/databasesbysubject/computerscience.html • IT@Sam Service Desk – helpdesk@shsu.edu • IT@Sam Instructor led Training (available throughout the fall 2011 semester) – tas017@shsu.edu