# Microsoft Word Level II

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/classes/word-level-2>

## Overview

Take your Microsoft Word skills to the next level in this advanced course. You'll learn how to use automation to speed up your workflow, create custom style sets and templates, apply advanced formatting techniques, and manage long documents with ease. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to become faster and more efficient in their everyday use of Word.

## What you'll learn

- Manage and work with multiple documents efficiently
- Track changes and collaborate using comments and revision tools
- Apply advanced formatting techniques for professional documents
- Create and manage reference tables, including tables of contents and indexes
- Design forms and use mail merge to automate personalized communications
- Build and apply custom style sets and templates for consistent formatting

## Prerequisites

Students must have Word proficiency equivalent to our [Microsoft Word Level I](/classes/beginner-microsoft-word) course.

## Curriculum

#### Working with Themes

- Apply a Themes
- Change Theme Colors
- Change Theme Font
- Modify a Theme

#### Building Blocks

- Insert Building Blocks
- Save Auto Text
- Insert AutoText
- Insert Graphics/Shapes as AutoText
- Fields
- Insert Document Property
- Insert a Field
- View/Edit a Building Block

#### Pagination Options

- Pagination
- Widow/Orphan Control
- Keep with Next
- Keep Lines Together
- Page Break Before

#### Text Boxes

- Insert a Text Box
- Linking Text Boxes

#### Document References

- Insert a Caption
- Insert a Cross Reference
- Insert a Footnote
- Enter Sources
- Insert a Citation
- Manage Sources
- Works Cited, References, or Bibliographies
- Insert a Reference Page
- Mark an Index Entry
- Insert an Index

#### Using Mail Merge

- Start Mail Merge
- Choose Recipients
- Insert an address block
- Preview Results
- Finish and Merge
- Step-by-Step Mail Merge Wizard

#### Mark Up a Document

- Enable Track Changes
- Display for Review
- Show Markup

#### Review Markups

- Reviewing Pane
- Accept Change
- Reject Change
- Compare Documents
- Combine Revisions from Separate Documents

#### Picture Tools

- Text Wrapping Options
- Square Text Wrapping
- Top and Bottom Text Wrap
- Behind Text Wrap
- Transparency
- Remove Background
- Word Art
- Smart Art

#### Form Controls

- Create a Form
- Enable the Developer tab
- Insert a Check box field
- Insert a Combo box field
- Form Field Options

#### Protecting Documents

- Open in Read-Only
- Enable Document Password

## Schedule
- Jun 18, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Jun 27, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online
- Sep 10, 2026 10:00am–5:00pm — Live Online

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $249