Microsoft® Word 2007 is the latest version of this premier line of word processing programs, designed to help you create professional-quality documents, from letters and brochures to reports and Web pages. In this Microsoft Word 2007 free training, you'll go beyond the basics of using Word 2007 to explore document themes and page layout formatting, adding and modifying headers and footers, and incorporating organizational and structural features, such as footnotes, digital signatures, and more.

This free Microsoft Word 2007 training course is one in a series of free Microsoft Word tutorials. The classes are designed to help you learn Word 2007 -- from the basics through advanced levels.

What you'll learn

This course consists of four lessons, each one with an assignment and a simple quiz. The lessons are:

• Lesson 1, "Microsoft® Word Tutorial: Beyond the Basics: Working with Text, Graphics, Color, and Objects," shows you how to raise a document's appeal factor with formatting techniques. In this lesson, you'll also discover how to use document themes, use Format Painter, apply WordArt, and create charts.
• Lesson 2, "Microsoft Word Tutorial: Using Page Layout and Page Setup Functions," shows you how use the Page Layout and Page Setup functions in Word 2007.
• Lesson 3, "Microsoft Word Tutorial: Working with Headers and Footers," explores headers and footers and shows you how to create custom headers and footers for your documents.
• Lesson 4, "Microsoft Word Tutorial: Applying Organizational and Structural Features to Your Documents," explains the use of organizational and structural features, such as cover pages, footnotes, digital signatures, and more.

Beyond the lessons, be sure to complete the assignments and quizzes. They're designed to reinforce important concepts and techniques you learned in the lessons. If you feel you need additional assistance or more detail on a certain topic at any point in the course, you can use the Microsoft Word Help feature.

Throughout this course, we provide Flash examples. To view these examples, you need the Adobe Flash Player. Keep an eye out for notes with links that say "See how to ____" or something similar. Some of these files are very large (2 to 5 MB or so) and may take a while to appear or download if you have a slow connection.

Let's get started with the topics in Lesson 1.