Microsoft Word for Beginners – Full Tutorial + Copilot Tips
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Microsoft Word for Beginners – Full Tutorial + Copilot Tips

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Learn Microsoft Word for Beginners in this complete step-by-step tutorial! In this video, I walk you through how to format a document from scratch, build a table of contents, insert images and tables, add citations, proof your writing, share documents, add comments, and even use Microsoft Copilot to rewrite, summarize, and improve your work. Whether you’re a student, teacher, business owner, or someone who simply wants to feel confident using Word, this beginner-friendly guide will help you master the essentials - no experience required. Learn how to use Microsoft 365 Copilot: https://youtu.be/j5xQn8Pi_Gw Learn Microsoft Excel with Copilot: https://youtu.be/BV9EduuuXO4 Build an Agent with Copilot: https://youtu.be/Iz3ul6hSeTs 🔗 Download the Practice Document Follow along with the same unformatted sample document used in this video:👉 https://go.teachers.tech/Word_Practice ⭐ What You’ll Learn in This Microsoft Word Tutorial ✔ How to format text, titles, and paragraphs ✔ How to adjust margins and page layout ✔ How to use Microsoft Word Styles (Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.) ✔ How to create an automatic Table of Contents ✔ How to insert and format images ✔ How to build and style tables ✔ How to add page numbers, headers, and footers ✔ How to use the Editor for spelling & grammar ✔ How to use Comments and track feedback ✔ How to share and collaborate in Word ✔ How to insert citations and create a bibliography ✔ How to use Microsoft Copilot inside Word ✔ How to turn a plain document into a professional report Perfect for beginners, classrooms, office training, and anyone learning Word for the first time. 📌 Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 03:42 Applying Text Formatting 06:15 Using Page Breaks 06:50 Adjusting Margins and Layout 07:45 Setting Up Headings 11:26 Building the Table of Contents 12:42 Formatting Paragraphs & Line Spacing 13:59 Creating Bullets & Numbered Lists 15:56 Inserting and Formatting Images 19:49 Adding and Styling Tables 22:54 Using Headers, Footers & Page Numbers 24:05 Proofing: Spelling & Grammar with Editor 25:30 Sharing Documents 26:46 Adding Comments & Collaboration 28:14 Inserting Citations & Bibliography 30:02 Using Microsoft Copilot in Word 33:03 Updating the Table of Contents 33:27 Saving & Exporting Your Document

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  1. 0:00 Introduction 759 сл.
  2. 3:42 Applying Text Formatting 505 сл.
  3. 6:15 Using Page Breaks 111 сл.
  4. 6:50 Adjusting Margins and Layout 190 сл.
  5. 7:45 Setting Up Headings 669 сл.
  6. 11:26 Building the Table of Contents 270 сл.
  7. 12:42 Formatting Paragraphs & Line Spacing 231 сл.
  8. 13:59 Creating Bullets & Numbered Lists 353 сл.
  9. 15:56 Inserting and Formatting Images 749 сл.
  10. 19:49 Adding and Styling Tables 564 сл.
  11. 22:54 Using Headers, Footers & Page Numbers 238 сл.
  12. 24:05 Proofing: Spelling & Grammar with Editor 267 сл.
  13. 25:30 Sharing Documents 265 сл.
  14. 26:46 Adding Comments & Collaboration 261 сл.
  15. 28:14 Inserting Citations & Bibliography 351 сл.
  16. 30:02 Using Microsoft Copilot in Word 558 сл.
  17. 33:03 Updating the Table of Contents 94 сл.
  18. 33:27 Saving & Exporting Your Document 248 сл.
0:00

Introduction

In this video, I'm going to teach you Microsoft  Word for beginners. We're going to take this   plain document and turn it into a real report  with a title page, table of contents, headers,   page numbers, images, tables, comments, citations,  and even AI help with Copilot. You can download   the same file in the description and follow along.   Hi, I'm Jamie and welcome to Teachers Tech. In   this beginner's tutorial for Microsoft Word, I'm  going to be showing you how to use the desktop app   that I'm showing you from my Windows 11 computer.   If you don't have that installed on your computer,   you can do the same things from the online app.   And let me quickly show you where you can access   that as well. If you go simply to just office. com,  and I'll put the link down below, you can log into   your Microsoft 365 Copilot account. And this is  where you can access all your Microsoft apps.    So if you have that account, just go ahead and get  logged in. And once you're logged in, you're going   to see this right here. You're going to see where  you can chat. Just kind of like chat GPT and ask   questions, upload files, and get it to do a lot of  work for you. But if you go to apps here, you're   going to see all the Microsoft apps that you have  access to. And here's Microsoft Word right here.    This is where you can go ahead and start a brand  new blank document from right here. And you're   going to see right away, this looks very similar  to what we're using on the desktop app where you   look across the ribbon, you're going to see all  the same features. So, just a choice for you where   you can work today. If you want to learn more  about M365 C-Pilot, like how you can chat with   your documents and ask questions or create your  own agent, I'll put a separate video that I walk   through all of this down below in the description.   Let's go ahead and get Microsoft Word open now.    So, I'm just going to go down to the start here.   And I can see Word is right here. You can do a   quick search if it's not showing up right there.   So, there's my Word app. I'm going to open it up.    And you're going to see right away here that I  could open the document. It's in my recent ones,   the one we're going to work on today. So, you can  also open it over here. So, if I go ahead, click   open. I'm going to browse because I know it's  on my desktop. So, I'm going to go to my desktop   and I have this folder called Word here. And it's  going to be this demo one. And I'm just going to   click on it and open it up. This is the one we're  going to go through and learn all these basic   skills of Microsoft Word and we can format it to  look make it look a lot better. If you're new to   Microsoft Word, you're going to see all these tabs  across the top here. Now, notice as I click on   each tab down below, this all changes. This is  the ribbon across here. And inside the ribbon,   you have different groups. So, right here, this  is the font group. This is the paragraph group and   styles. So, it's broken down from the tabs to the  ribbon. And whenever you see this little symbol in   one of the groups, if you click on it and open it,  it will show you even more features that you can   apply within that group. So, for example, let's  go over to view. And you can see how large my font   is showing up right now. If I go to view, I can  quickly change how I'm seeing everything. So, you   can adjust get things the way you want. So, if I  want to go to one page, it will show it one page.    I can see multiple pages here. And if I click  to page width, it just jumps back across here.    So you can also do some custom ones by zooming in  here by changing the percentage. A quick way to do   all of this is at the bottom right hand corner  down here. There's this. And I can drag this   back and forth to zoom up quickly to what I want.   Let's go ahead and quickly add a simple title to
3:42

Applying Text Formatting

this document. And this will work for about 90% of  the people with what they need with titles. But as   we progress through this tutorial, you're going  to see different ways you can do this, too. So,   I'm going to click on this and highlight this. So,  notice as soon as I highlight the Adventures of   the Pooch Haven Spa, I get this. This is a quick  access to start changing formatting to my font or   applying different styles. I can also move up here  and you're going to see it's the same things. So,   if I wanted a larger font, I'm going to drop  down and I can hover over and you can see how   the font's going to change. So let's go ahead and  pick 28. Now the next thing is for a title I might   want this bold. So if I click on the B here, this  will bold it. Now I the other thing I think I want   a different font. So if I drop down right here,  you can see all the different fonts that you have   available. As I hover them over different ones,  I get the preview on the document. I'm just going   to go ahead and select this one here. So the next  step I would say is I want to center this. And I   still have this highlighted. If I look in the  paragraph group over here, I'm just going to   click center. So this is looking a lot better as a  title. I can still do some other things. If you   wanted to go ahead and apply a color to this. So  as I hover over, you can see the differences what   it looks like. I'm just going to keep this black  for the moment. I still want to add a subtitle to   here. So, I'm going to click right after spa and  I'm going to hit enter. Now, I want to point out   when I hit enter, if I have my if I had my cursor  there, when I hit enter, it's going to pick up the   formatting of what I already did. So, notice as  I type, it's going to look the same, but I can   adjust this after. I'm going to go ahead and type  a training sample for Microsoft Word beginners. So, as a subheading, I'd want this smaller. I  could highlight this again and this time I'm just   going to drop down here and choose the 14. Now,  I do want to point out another quick way you can   change your uh font style. So, if I go back to  this again, notice up here, you have some style   fonts that you can apply. So, you can hover over  and get a look at how quickly you can change the   font and add different effects to any of these. So  just go ahead. You can play around and get a look   that you would like for it. Let's say I wanted  to insert a new page right after this paragraph.
6:15

Using Page Breaks

Now a lot of times I see people hit enter enter.   Well, don't do that. You could do that 25 times,   but that's not the way you should do it. You  should insert a page break instead. So if I   go up to insert, and when you look into the  ribbon under the pages group, here is page   break. I'm just going to quickly click on it  once and you're going to see now I have this   page break where it moved everything down. Page  breaks keep things clean and they're how reports   are supposed to flow. Now, I'm not going to be  changing much on the layout in this document,
6:50

Adjusting Margins and Layout

but I just want to make a reference to it. If  I'm under the home tab, if I go over and look at   layout, this is where you can set your margins  or orientation or paper size. So, if I drop down,   you can see there's the preset margins here. Or if  I click custom margins, you can select your own.    We can pick our orientation. So, whether it be  portrait or landscape when it turns it over on its   side. I'm going to be keeping this in portrait.   You can choose your paper size here too. So,   depending if this is something you want to print  on. And you can choose columns here as well. So,   if you wanted something with two columns, uh, it  will just go ahead and place everything in two   columns. As you type, it will go down the one  side, left side, then move over to the right.    But I'll be just staying in one column. I just  wanted to make sure where you that you knew where   this information was. Now, we're going to apply  headings to this document. And this is something
7:45

Setting Up Headings

that is so overlooked, but such an important  feature. I hardly see anybody ever use this,   but this is what you need to apply to make sure  that when you're starting a table of contents or   if you want navigation within a report or even if  you want this consistent formatting and it's super   easy to apply. Let's scroll down the page. We're  going to go to page three cuz I believe this is   where we're going to start. So, a day at the Pooch  Haven Spa. This is where we're going to apply our   first heading. I'm going to go ahead and highlight  this. And notice up top we have styles. I'm under   the home tab in the ribbon here under styles.   I'm going to drop down. We have heading one 2   3 4. I'm going to pick this as heading one. And  I'm going to apply uh four or five more headings   here. So the next one I'm going to go to is going  to be the fun facts and references. So I'm going   to keep scrolling down and here I I'll highlight  this and choose that one. And I'm going to move   down to behind the scenes. So you can see this  is very quick to add these headings here. I'll   add customer reviews and testimonies. And we're  going to do one more final thoughts. And this is   going to be heading one. But I also want to add  some heading twos. So I'm going to move back up   here and I'm going to be looking for uh this one  right here, spa time snapshot. So, I'm going to   highlight this and I'm going to drop down and  choose heading two. And now I want to find uh   Bella's spa package. So, we'll go here and we're  going to choose heading two. And we're going to   go to the bibliography right here. Adding heading  two. So, I want to point out you can view these   in navigation automatically. It's not turned on.   If I go over to the view tab here and now I click   the navigation pane, look what I have over here.   So as I click on different parts, it will jump   to where I put those styles. And notice that where  we have the uh heading one versus the heading two,   how it's indented underneath. So, if you have  a large report, this starts to give you an easy   way to manage to go through to find exactly  what you're looking for without scrolling.    Notice Word is giving me a little bit of hints  here over here on the side. I'm just going to   click on this. It's saying this is hard to read  text contrast. And yeah, would be for printing.    You'd probably want a little bit more contrast.   I can fix it in a hurry. And it applies to all   similar issues. And I can click it and now I have  this color. You can customize these as well. So,   if I go ahead and just select this and let's say  I can make some adjustments. I'll go up and we'll   make this to red. Nice and bright red. We'll make  this a little larger. And now you can create your   own style. If I go back up to here, I can go ahead  here and create a style. It will give a name. I   can give it a name, whatever I would like here.   I'm just going to leave this as style two. So if   I hit okay, notice that this is one of the styles.   So if I go ahead and click uh highlight this in   here and apply style to it quickly adds that. So I  can create my own styles to apply and you can make   your own adjustments to this. I'm going to go Z.   That is the same as the undo button right here. So   if you press Ctrl Z on your keyboard, you can undo  your last steps. Now that I've added these styles,
11:26

Building the Table of Contents

a table of contents is a breeze. So, if I go back  up and I'm going to go to page two right here,   I'm going to add a table of contents to the  top of this. I'm going to start typing table   of contents. Notice that Word kind of knows what  I'm going to type. If I just click on my tab key,   it will finish off. It will jump to the end and  type what it was suggesting there. I'm going to   hit enter. Now, if I go up to the reference tab  up here, notice we have table of contents. So,   if I click on table of contents, we have these  automatic tables. I'm just going to use this first   one. Watch this. I click on it. And here's my  table of contents with all of the style headings   that I have in here. So, this was a heading one,  heading two, one, two, one, one.    And look across from it, the page numbers. And the  great thing is as we can continue to change this   document and maybe page numbers will change, I  can refresh this at the end and it's automatically   going to update with all of those changes. So this  can save a lot of time. I still see people trying   to tab and create their own table of contents.   And if you just use styles, you can have it done   in a few minutes. Let's move to formatting body  paragraphs like spacing and justification and   spacing after. I'm going to go to this right here  and we'll just look at these two par paragraphs.
12:42

Formatting Paragraphs & Line Spacing

I'm going to go ahead and just select everything  here. So, I have this highlighted. I'm going to   be making sure I'm under the home tab. And if we  look right here in the paragraph, if I drop down,   notice how I can choose different spacing. So,  if I wanted to be 1. 5, I can quickly adjust the   spacing needed. If I drop down here, I just want  to point out this right here, the line spacing   options. If you open it up, you can see how you  can have a few more features of adjustments here.    If we move over to the layout over here, we can  have spacing after too. So, if I drop this down,   just watch what happens as I drop this down to  six or move it up. You can see the spacing after   each of these changes. So, I can be setting up  this layout over here. Now, if I go back to home,   I'm going to click justify here. Or you could use  the shortcut Ctrl J. This makes it so the edges   line up with the left and the right. Now, now it  reads like a proper report through this section.    Comfortable line spacing, consistent spacing  between paragraphs, and nice clean edges. Bullets   and number list make information easier to scan.   And one way to think about it is bullets are for
13:59

Creating Bullets & Numbered Lists

items, numbers are for steps. I'm going to show  you both with an example right here. So, here we   have here's what Bella Spa itinerary looks like.   I want to make sure this is a list here. So, if I   go ahead and just highlight this information here,  notice if I go back to the top in the paragraph,   I can quickly click on bullets. So, when I click  on it, it turns it into bullet format. And notice   how it put it closer together and it makes it much  easier to read. Now at the same time if I did have   something where I need a number list I can click  on this and it will adjust. Now with any of these   if I go and just click after any of these and I  hit enter it will continue the list. So if I just   write example and I hit again notice how each time  it automatically adds the number here. If I just   hit backspace as I go back up you can see how I  can remove each of them as well. Now, if I go to   this one here, and I'm going to hit enter. This  time, if I hit tab, notice it moves it in. So,   you can kind of have a top level one, and then  you can have a second level to put underneath. So,   if you just use tab, that's how it would go  underneath. And you can do this the same for   bullets or for numbers. So if I change it back to  bullets, you can see how the definition is between   uh the top level and the second level. If you look  up at the top right here, this will do the same   thing as tab. So I can actually go backwards on  this. So if I bring this and I click to the left,   it will decrease the indent and put it in the top  level. Or you can keep increasing it over. Tap is   just to kind of gives a shortcut for that. Let's  insert and format an image inside this document.
15:56

Inserting and Formatting Images

We're going to move down to here where it says  spa time snapshot. And you're going to see for   this demo, you can insert an image here. So, I'm  just going to click after this sentence. And this   is where I'm going to insert this. So, I've said  insert a few times. If we go up to the insert tab,   you're going to see pictures here. And I'm going  to show you a few different ways you can do this.    You can pull from this device. So, if I go and  click on it, I have this on my computer and I   could go ahead and select this and hit insert.   So, I'm just going to go and click delete on   my keyboard and push it away. I can go insert  picture. I could go from stock images. So, this   will give you the stock images. I could search up  dogs here and choose one of these to place it in.    Another way you could do this is using Copilot to  create the image for you. So, let's go to generate   an image. And this is going to come up here.   Copilot is opening up. Generate an image of a   uh we're going to say of a dog uh taking a bath.   So, we'll just say of a dog taking a bath here.    And I'm going to go and send this. So, it's going  to create the image for me that I can insert into   here. All right. Let's see what Copilot made for  us. Here we have this cute dog with bubbles on   his head in a bath. And remember, I didn't give it  very much information of the details I wanted. I   could have gave it more to get it more specific.   And you can see how a little further on, make it   a cartoon style, add bubbles and rubber duck and  so on. But what I want to do is right here, I can   go ahead click insert. I can also copy the image,  but I'm just going to click insert and I'm going   to close out of co-pilot just to have a bit more  room. And here we have it. So once it gets put in,   what we can do is resize it. So I'm going to go  and I can bring the Notice how when I bring the   corner in, it's resizing it. And I can make it  smaller and smaller here. And right   now, if I try to drag it, it's not dragging around  very smoothly. I can still drag it to move it,   but you can change the different layout of  how it uh how it formats within here. So,   what I want to do is click this right here. And  notice that I have some options. So, I can go   square. If I click on it, so now that I've clicked  that, I can move this around. And you're going to   notice that the text is going to move around with  it. So, I can position it to where I want to get   it to look the best. If I go to tight as another  example, you can see the text got a little bit   tighter. Maybe I want to make this a little bit  smaller and place it uh to where I need it. So,   it makes it really easy to uh get the pictures  where you want. Now, I want to point out when   you have the picture selected, notice up top you  get picture format. So, this is another tab that   opens up when you're selected on the picture. So,  if I click off of it, it goes away. Click on it,   it comes back. So if I click on it now, I can  even apply more things to the image. So even if   I wanted to remove the background, if I wanted  to uh have corrections in it, you can see if I   wanted to just click on it and make any of these  adjust adjustments, Ctrl Z, I can go backwards. I   can change the color here. I can choose artistic  effect. So, if I click this one and again making   all these fun changes to it right within Microsoft  Word, I can even quickly change the picture style.    So, do I want it to have a metal oval or the oval  this way? These options are endless to how you can   adjust it. Tables are perfect. Tables are perfect  for price list, schedules, product comparisons,
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Adding and Styling Tables

anything structured. And again, Microsoft Word  makes it easy to insert them. We're going to   place a table right here. Bail spa package  options. And I'm just going to go underneath   this paragraph. I'm going to go to insert. And  under insert, we have table. If we drop down,   we can say uh how many rows and columns we want  it by. So if I want it by three columns and then   I highlight down to four rows here, I can click on  it and then this table is inserted. Now we can go   ahead and start adding some information in here.   So let's say if I wanted to type package here. So   if I type package just like normal, I can type  it in. I can go to duration and if I hit tab,   it goes automatically to the cell to the right.   So, if I could type price and if I hit tab again,   it goes underneath and I can start typing more  things or else I can click in each cell. I'm just   going to go ahead finish uh filling this out and  then I'll let you fill it out after you see what   I put in it. All right, now I've filled everything  out. If you just want to pause the video,   you can type this information into your table.   Now I can go and start formatting the font in the   table. I get to highlight multiple cells. I could  go to bold. I could change color of the fonts.    All the things that I showed you before. I could  go to individual cell and if I rightclick in it,   you're going to notice I get this bucket here  and I can change the color. So if I turn this   to green, I could turn the font to white and I  can make all these adjustments. I'm going to go Z   just to put it back. Now, as soon as I'm clicked  inside the table, I get table design and table   layout up top. If I click table design,  you'll notice that there's some quick styles that   I can add here. So, if I drop down, you'll see  all these different ones. And if I just click,   as an example, we'll click this blue one that  is applied to that table. And I can click on   any of these to just see if any of these are  ones that I would like. And that one-click   option just speeds things up. Notice over  here, if I wanted borders, I if I go around,   I'll highlight this right here. I could go and  pick borders around the outside. And so now just   this right here has the borders to it. I'm going  to go control Z on this. The other thing I can do,   if I go to table layout, I can insert more rows.   I can delete rows. I can uh insert columns. So, if   I'm here and if I want to insert a column left, I  select it. Now, I have a new column. Another way,   if I'm at the last cell and if I hit tab, you're  going to see that it will just keep creating more   rows each time I tab through. So, there's  different ways that you can start formatting   this table to get exactly what you want. So,  now we're going to do headers, footer. Okay.
22:54

Using Headers, Footers & Page Numbers

Now, I want to show you how you can use headers,  footers, and page numbers. We're going to go up   to the insert here. And we have header. So, I'm  going to just go ahead and choose blank. You can   see there's different ones here. I'm going to  choose the blank one. As soon as I click this,   we have our header. And I'm just going to type  this in. Pooch Haven Spa Report. When I place   this in the header, this will show up on every  single page. Now, now what I want to do is go to   the footer now. So, if I go down below here, you  can see I can just double click in the f footer   because it's already open. And if I'm under the  insert, we have page numbers. So, I can go and   pick where I want. Since I'm in the footer, it's  going to be at the bottom of the page. I'm going   to pick plain number, and I'm just going to  pick center. So now if I click out of this,   you'll see here's the page number I was on four.   I have pooch haven spot already on the next one   in the header. If I go down, you can see page  five. So that's how quickly you can use headers,   footers, and page numbers. Microsoft Word has a  builtin proofreader for you. If you go up to your
24:05

Proofing: Spelling & Grammar with Editor

tabs and go to review, and you can see all the  different things you can do with Microsoft Word,   from read aloud to translator. I'm not going  to go through all of these and these start this   uh tutorial. But if I go over here to proofing  and I'm just going to go ahead make sure I have   spelling and grammar. This will open up the editor  on the side here. So it will go through. I'm just   going to click at the very beginning here and it  gives me an editor score and you can see if I drop   down for different types of writing uh what the  scores would be. Now the spelling is all correct.    If I go ahead and just type some gibberish here,  it should find it right away. So, if I click on   it, you'll notice that uh there's no reference  to it because it's just a bunch of gibberish,   but that's built right into it. So, if I'm just  going to close out of there, but I can look for   different parts of it from clarity, uh, formality,  inclusiveness. So, if I click on clarity here,   it's going to show me at different parts. So,  saying who did or what did the action would be,   uh, clearer. So, it gives me the example of this.   Notice I can even have it read to me. So, I can go   through, ignore one, stop checking for this. But  do take advantage of checking out uh this built-in   proofreader for you with anything you're putting  together in Microsoft Word. Even with a desktop
25:30

Sharing Documents

app, you can share your documents to work with  other people. So, if I go up top to share, I'm   going to click share. Now, the one thing to know  is that you need to be sharing your document. it   needs to live in one drive cuz it just can't be on  your computer. So, I'm going to just click on uh   one drive and this will upload it and make a copy  and save it up there. Once it's uploaded, then   I'm able to share with other people. So, in this  case, I'm going to share with me another account   and I can choose what do I want this person to do.   Do I want them to make edits, review, can view,   can't download? I get all these options. I'm going  to keep myself as an editor. Uh, I'm going to go   ahead and send it. Notice how I could copy the  link from here and send it to other people. But   then I would have to modify uh the settings  of how I'd want it to be shared as well, but   I'm just going to keep it as here. Notice I can  even put a set of password for it. So, if I click   on share one more time, I'm going to click share.   I'm going to make sure that I'm added to this here   and I'm going to click send. So, this I'll get a  notification from my other email and I'll be able   to work on this as well. Comments are a perfect  way for group work, editing, and feedback. You
26:46

Adding Comments & Collaboration

don't have to change the text right away. You can  mark it, talk about it, and come back later. So,   here's an example. I'm just going to go ahead  and highlight this right here, this sentence.    I'm going to go up to uh the review, and this is  where we're going to get comments. I'm just going   to click on comments. Now, I can go ahead and just  write a comment, but if I know if I'm aiming this   comment towards somebody, I'm going to use the at.   And since I've shared this with myself to another   account, I can assign the a comment to somebody.   So, notice I can click this and I can go and write   my comment. So, can we get a photo of the grooming  room here? And I can go ahead and send this. So,   this gets added on to it. And you'll see if I  log into my other account that we can reply to   this. Now I've opened up Microsoft Word with my  other account and I can see that Ashton assigned   a task to me. So if I click on this, it jumps  down to what's highlighted here, that sentence,   and then I can see the comment right over here.   So now I can go ahead and I'll just say yes,   and I'll hit reply. So, if I jump back now to Word  over here, I can see the update of the reply. So,   I know even if we're not in the same place,  we can add comments and work on this together.
28:14

Inserting Citations & Bibliography

Let me show you how you can use Microsoft Word for  citations and bibliographies. I'm going to go and   delete this bibliography that I had in it. It was  just kind of a placeholder that I was using. So,   I'm going to go and insert a citation to begin  with and it's going to be based on this sentence   right through here. So, I'm going to highlight  this and under references under the tab references   I have insert citation. So, if I choose this, I'm  going to add a news source and I'm just going to   be using a website. So, you can see you have  many different types of sources that you can   choose from. So, whatever it matches the best. For  me, this is going to be a website. And now I just   need to go start f filling out this information.   So we'll start with author. And this is just going   to be the American Pet Products Association. And  I'm just going to go to skip a line here. And I'm   going to put a PPA. And the year, I believe 2024,  we'll say. And you can see the information. Uh I'm   not going to put a month or day, but I will put  the website in here. So I'm going to copy paste   the URL over and I'm just going to click okay.   So now that becomes as I hover over you can see   this is going to be citation. But now what I can  do is once that information's in I can go ahead   and go to bibliography. I can choose the style  of the bibliography here. I'm going to go ahead   and just click on this first one. and it takes  that information because I'd already entered   it once before in a few different ways, but it  went and put the bibliography in from the from   those citations right in. So, it just puts it  all together for you in a very quick way. Now,   I want to show you how you can take advantage of  Copilot in Microsoft Word. And in this case, I'm
30:02

Using Microsoft Copilot in Word

going to be using Copilot. And I in this account,  I don't have a paid for version of an add-on of   Copilot. This is the one that just comes with all  Microsoft 365 Copilot accounts. I'm going to just   click on Copilot. It's going to open it up. And  you can see the picture from before. I'm going   to go ahead and just highlight this right through  here. And I'm going to ask it to do something for   me. rewrite the paragraph  to sound a little bit more professional. So, um,   make sure that's highlighted. And I'm going to go  ahead and, uh, I'll put this question in. Rewrite   the paragraph to sound more professional. and I'm  going to send that away. So, in a few seconds,   I get this back. Here's more professional rewrite  of the selected paragraph. Uh, you can see the   write up. I'm not going to read it all to you,  but if you like what it says, what you can do,   if you keep moving down, you will see that I can  click here to add to doc. So, maybe I want to   delete this first here, and I find the spot where  I want to be using it, and then I can go ahead and   add to doc. So, just like that, I've taken that  information. And I would still have to go through   and format it to the way that I would want before.   If you go back to what I showed you with the line   spacing or do you want it to be uh justified  across? Another way that you can use co-pilot   is to summarize sections into maybe bullet points.   So if I was going to go, we'll move down a little   bit here and I'll just talk about this paragraph  right here. So, if I go ahead and highlight this   and I'm going to go say summarize this section  into three bullet points. And if I send this off,   now it's created three bullet points for me that  I can insert just like before. But notice I can   also ask it to create a table of the services. So  before I showed you how to create the table, but   now you could go ahead and use co-pilot to create  the table for you. So, if I move down, I see the   table here that they created for me, and I can go  ahead pick where I'd want it and insert it in. And   it then I could go through and format it like I  showed you before. One last thing I just want to   point out you could use Copilot for would be like  something like generating social media content.    So, if I go down to the testimonials, so maybe  I highlight this part of the testimonials here,   and I'm just going to say, "Give me three catchy  social media captions based on this testimonial   section. " I'm going to send that off. And again,  in a few seconds, I have this based on the on the   reviews and testimonials. Royal treatment for your  furry friends. See why pets can't wait to visit   Pooch Haven Spa. This saves you so much time. So,  take advantage of co-pilot and all of the other   things that I showed you today in today's tutorial  to get your reports looking professional. Now,
33:03

Updating the Table of Contents

I want to head back to the table of contents  one more time because I want to point out as   you're making all these different changes, it's  important to make sure you update the table. So,   it's just a simple click. Go ahead and update it.   And what it's going to do is it will go through   if any page numbers change on any of the pages  or if any of the headings, then it will go ahead   and update everything for you with just that  simple click. Before I leave you here today,
33:27

Saving & Exporting Your Document

I just want to mention something about saving and  exporting. Now, we did resave this to one drive,   but remember when we go back to the file tab, this  is where we can save. If you want another copy,   we can go save as. You can go ahead and choose  where you would like to save it. But the other   thing I would like to point out is you can save  it as a PDF as well. Notice that if I drop down,   you can see all the different ways that you can  save this word documents. And if I chose PDF,   this is going to save it as a PDF. Notice it's  a quick way to do it over here as well. And if I   go ahead and you can see the extension is going to  be PDF. I hit save. And when I open up this again,   you will see that this right now is a PDF. So  just different ways to save your work. I hope   this beginner's tutorial on Microsoft Word  has given you a strong understanding to feel   confident when using Microsoft Word to create  a report uh to just put everything together,   taking advantage of Copilot to do some heavy  lifting for you. Let me know what else you   like to learn in Microsoft Word. I have  lots of other tutorials out there. Thanks   for watching this time on Teachers Tech. I'll see  you next week with more tech tips and tutorials.

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