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Microsoft Word 2011
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/databasesbysubj
ect/computerscience.html
IT@Sam Service Desk – [email protected]
IT@Sam Instructor led Training (available throughout the fall
2011 semester) – [email protected]