![]() The "Microsoft Word VBA Macro Programming - Introduction" course will equip you with the skills you need to write and edit Macros to automate the tasks of Microsoft Word. Users can use VBA to extract more functionality from the apps than what is normally available within its menus. Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is the internal programming language that’s used by the various applications in the Microsoft Office suite. In the final lesson, the instructor explains the various options for compressing images available in Word and the difference between them. Similarly, there are useful lessons in the tools section to help you set a custom spell-check dictionary, and password protect a document. The text formatting sections covers topics like automatic text replacement and maintaining proper formatting when copy-pasting text. The course begins by helping you customize some of the application’s default settings but can be chiefly divided into two broad sections one deals with adding and formatting text while the other covers the commonly used tools. The course runs a little over 1.5 hours and has a handful of little time saving tricks that’ll help you learn to use the commonly used word processing features more efficiently. Once you have a fair amount of mileage working with Word, you can enhance your skills by taking the "Word 2016: Advanced Tips and Tricks" course. The 'Word 2016 Tutorial: A Comprehensive Guide to Word for Anyone - 32 Modules' not only spends more time on the topics but also covers a lot more ground. If you have more time, you can view another free course by Sali Kaceli on YouTube that’s a lot more comprehensive. To ease navigation, the video description has 22 timestamp bookmarks for all of the different topics covered in the lecture. As the name suggests, the video has a runtime of 30 minutes and covers everything from basic formatting features to inserting tables to creating a mail merge to using Macros. The lecture is based on Word 2016 though you can follow through much of it on other versions of the word processor. However, its "Learn Word in 30 minutes" course is available for free on YouTube and does a nice job of familiarizing you with the software’s most notable functions. Kaceli Technology Simplified offers a lot of video tutorials on Microsoft Office and its various components. While most of the lessons are divided on specific tasks, such as formatting text and laying out pages, there’s also a special section titled “Use Word for school“ that covers several Word techniques that’ll be of help in an educational setting. ![]() ![]() Some lessons are applicable to even older versions such as Word 2013, Word 2010 and even Word 2007. The good thing about the training is that since its covers the absolute basics, most of its lessons are applicable to various versions of the software, going from the Microsoft 365 to Word 2019, and Word 2016. The training is made of short video demonstrations and screencasts, which are followed by several textual step-by-step tutorials that are nicely illustrated to help you get working knowledge with the word processor. The makers of the software have a nice free 'Introductory training to Word', which is as good a starting point as any. If you are an absolute green horn to word processing, then let Microsoft handhold you through the basics. ![]()
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