Microsoft Word · Beginner INTERACTIVE

Word: Professional Documents, Fast

Most people use 10% of Word and spend hours fixing formatting by hand. Learn the shortcuts, styles and layout tools professionals use to produce clean reports, CVs and letters in minutes — plus automatic contents pages, Track Changes, Mail Merge and AI writing help.

6

units

17

lessons

62

challenges

~50

minutes

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Outcomes

What you'll be able to do

Type, select and edit text at speed with keyboard shortcuts

Format consistently with Styles instead of manual formatting

Control pages: margins, breaks, sections, headers, footers and page numbers

Build long documents with an automatic table of contents, captions and footnotes

Find & Replace across a whole document in seconds

Insert and position tables and images without the layout jumping

Review documents with Track Changes and comments

Send personalised letters with Mail Merge and export clean PDFs

How it works

Learn by doing, a few minutes a day

Every lesson mixes short explanations with hands-on challenges. Get instant feedback, fix mistakes on the spot, and build a daily habit that actually sticks.

Concept cards

Short, clear explanations with real examples

38 in this course

Multiple choice

Pick the right answer, get instant feedback

29 in this course

Fill the blank

Complete formulas, commands and shortcuts

12 in this course

Build it

Arrange tiles into the right sequence

3 in this course

Match pairs

Connect shortcuts, terms and meanings

18 in this course

Daily streaks

Keep the flame alive by learning every day

XP & daily goals

Pick a goal from 10 to 50 XP a day

Hearts

Five per lesson; missed questions come back

Leaderboard

Climb the weekly rankings

Syllabus

Everything you'll encounter

1

The shortcuts everyone should know

The dozen keys that save you an hour a week.

5 challenges
2

Select text like a pro

Clicks and keys for words, sentences and paragraphs.

4 challenges
3

See the invisible: ¶ marks

Show/Hide reveals what is really messing up your layout.

4 challenges
1

Styles: the secret weapon

Consistent formatting in one click — and the key to automatic contents pages.

4 challenges
2

Format Painter & clearing formats

Copy formatting instantly — and reset messy text.

4 challenges
3

Alignment, spacing & lists

Paragraph controls that make documents look professional.

4 challenges
1

Margins, orientation & page breaks

Control where pages start and how they look.

3 challenges
2

Section breaks

Different layouts in one document.

3 challenges
3

Headers, footers & page numbers

Professional page furniture that updates itself.

4 challenges
1

Navigation Pane & Find/Replace

Jump anywhere and change everything at once.

4 challenges
2

Automatic table of contents

A contents page that builds and updates itself.

4 challenges
3

Footnotes, citations & bibliography

Academic and professional referencing, done automatically.

3 challenges
1

Tables that behave

Build, style and fix tables quickly.

3 challenges
2

Images & text wrapping

Stop pictures jumping around the page.

2 challenges
1

Track Changes & comments

Review documents like a professional editor.

4 challenges
2

Mail Merge

One letter, hundreds of personalised copies.

4 challenges
3

PDFs, templates & AI writing help

Share professionally and write faster.

3 challenges

Finish the course, earn a verifiable certificate

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