Best practices Word - Design impactful documents

Goals

Create and edit documents using styles and templates efficiently.

Automate the presentation of documents.

Structure and write your document in a communicative way.

Prerequisite

Knowledge of the Windows environment and a good knowledge of Word.

Contents

Pedagogical method

Participative training, combining the learning of Office functionalities and the corresponding good practices.

Program

Even before creating your document

• Target audience and objectives of the document

• Composition (content) and typography (form): 2 distinct and complementary tasks

• Structure and content: think before you start

• Sources and reliability of data

Create your document

• Create, save and use a template

• Create a document from several others

• Insert files into current documents

• Import elements from other programs (Excel, PowerPoint, ...)

Structuring your document

• Structuring your document using title styles and the navigation pane

• Handling the different levels of headings

• Moving chapters using the navigation pane

• Structure and logic: to each his own!

Formatting your document

• Using the theme. Creating and modifying the existing theme.

• Create, modify and use styles (character, paragraph, table, list) and style sets

• Create, modify, use and delete a section

• Between originality and sobriety: some rules

Take care of the visual and graphic elements

• Cover pages

• Inserting images in a long document

• Creating a table of figures

• Visual elements and efficiency

Good practice

• Create a table of contents and change its appearance

• Generate an index

• Write a clear and effective report using written communication techniques

• Popularise the information if necessary

• Summarise your document in 1 page