Microsoft Word Intermediate (Level 2)
Somebody is retyping the same letter two hundred times.
Every organization has someone producing the same document over and over with the names changed. They are copying, pasting, and finding the three places they missed. It takes a day a month and it is a solved problem.
This class solves it. Mail merge is the headline, and it routinely produces an audible reaction when someone realizes the letters they hand-edit could come from a spreadsheet in ninety seconds. Templates are the quieter win: build the thing once, and consistency stops depending on anyone remembering.
Operations and administrative leaders use this where recurring documents are eating real time. HR uses it for anything personalized at volume. It follows on from Microsoft Word Beginners (Level 1) and pairs naturally with Excel training, since the merge source is usually a spreadsheet.
Content, examples, and exercises are built around your own files and workflows before delivery. Most groups train live online, and on-site in-person delivery is available by request. This class is available by request only, with a three participant minimum, and sits alongside our other Microsoft Office training.
This course includes
- Live, instructor led class delivered across two sessions
- A real template built during class that your team can use
- Mail merge taught end to end from your own spreadsheet
- Automatic numbering, cross-references, and self-building contents
- Digital learning materials and take home reference guides
- Certificate of completion for every participant
Description
The first session is templates and structure. Participants build a real template with styles, placeholders, and locked elements, so the next person who uses it cannot accidentally break it. They learn the difference between a document that looks consistent and a document that is structurally consistent, which is what determines whether it survives.
The middle is mail merge, taught end to end. Participants take a spreadsheet and produce personalized letters, labels, and emails from it, including conditional content that changes by recipient. Most arrive not knowing this exists and leave having automated something they had accepted as unavoidable.
The final session is automation inside the document: automatic numbering that stays right, cross-references that update when things move, captions, and a table of contents that builds itself. Participants apply it to a document they maintain, and stop maintaining by hand what the application will maintain for them.
What You'll Learn at a Glance
- Build a template with styles and placeholders that others cannot break
- Tell structural consistency from documents that merely look consistent
- Run a mail merge for letters, labels, and email from a spreadsheet
- Use conditional content so a merge changes by recipient
- Set up numbering and cross-references that update themselves
- Build a table of contents that maintains itself
- Identify the recurring documents in your week that should be automated
Details
Duration
Prerequisites
Participants should be comfortable with basic Word formatting and file handling. Those without that foundation should start with Microsoft Word Beginners (Level 1).
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Tuition
Microsoft Word Intermediate (Level 2) is available by request only, scheduled around your team.
- $359 per participant, with a three participant minimum
- Private training: request a custom quote. One on one sessions and teams below the three participant minimum are priced case by case
- Larger groups: request a custom quote. We price larger cohorts case by case based on group size, schedule, and delivery format
Request a quote and we will build pricing around your team.