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See how to use Word 2013 features for authoring reports, white papers, books, and other long documents. First, author Maria Langer explains considerations unique to long documents, before providing best practices and smart strategies for planning your approach. Then see how to set up a logical, effective structure with outlines and master pages, which will help organize your ideas while automatically generating a table of contents, a bibliography, and other document elements. Find out how to add reference items such as cross-references, footnotes, and indexes to guide readers through your work, and place images, tables, and other graphics. Finally, learn about numbering chapters, sections, and pages; adding headers and footers; and formatting and exporting your final document.
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Maria Langer
Maria Langer is a technology educator and the author of more than 80 computer how-to books.
Maria Langer has been working with and writing about Macintosh and Windows computers and software since 1990. She specializes in Mac OS, productivity applications, blogging, social networking, and ebook publishing. Maria is the author of more than 80 computer how-to books and hundreds of articles that have appeared in print and on the web. She has authored and conducted classroom and video training courses for more than fifteen years. Maria has been blogging with WordPress since 2003 and has been active with social networks such as Twitter and Facebook since 2007. She is also the owner of a small publishing company and a helicopter charter company; she uses her computer and social networking skills to promote her books and her flying business.
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Welcome
- [Voiceover] Hi, my name is Maria Langer and I'd like to welcome you to Creating Long Documents with Microsoft Word. In this course, I'll explain how to make the most of Word's feature set to create reports, white papers and even books. Outlining tools and the Master Document feature make it easy to organize and manage document content. You can easily add cross references, footnotes, end-notes, captions and citations, all of which update as necessary when you make changes to the document. Word can even automatically generate a table of contents, bibliography, an index based on styles and coded entries, and when it's time to finalize the document for sharing with others, you can include page numbers, custom headers and footers and even a cover page. By the end of this course, you'll know everything you need to create a long document with Microsoft Word whether its a term paper for school, a white paper for upper management or the next great American novel. Are you ready to get started? Let's go.
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