Cert Prep: Word 2013 Microsoft Office Expert Part One (77-425)

Demonstrate your advanced Word knowledge by becoming a Word 2013 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Expert. Prepare for the first part of the 77-425 exam: Word 2013 Expert Part One.

Demonstrate your advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word by becoming a Word 2013 Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Expert. This course, created by certified MOS Master instructor Jennifer McBee, helps you prepare for the Word 2013 Expert Part One exam, the first part of a two-part exam. This course is organized around the exam's four main topic areas: managing and sharing documents, designing advanced documents, creating advanced references, and creating custom Word elements.


To begin, Jennifer provides an overview of the certification program and its costs. She then walks through all of the certification objectives, including hands-on experience with downloadable sample documents. She concludes the course with a full-length practice test that emulates exam 77-425, together with solutions to each of the exam challenges.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What to know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• Taking the challenges

1. Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Expert Exam Overview

• The different kinds of Microsoft Office Specialist certifications
• The 2013 MOS expert exam format and learning objectives

2. Manage and Share Documents

• Set tracking options
• Restrict editing and limit authors
• Prepare a document for sharing
• Protect documents
• ✓ Challenge: Manage and share documents
• ✓ Solution: Manage and share documents

3. Design Advanced Documents

• Use advanced find and replace
• Create and break links between sections
• Set character spacing options and attributes
• Customize field formats
• Create character-specific custom styles with shortcuts
• Set advanced layout options
• Create and break links between text boxes
• ✓ Challenge: Design advanced documents
• ✓ Solution: Design advanced documents

4. Create Advanced References

• Add and modify controls
• Create a mail merge
• Manage recipient lists
• ✓ Challenge: Create advanced references
• ✓ Solution: Create advanced references

5. Create Custom Word Elements

• Create custom building blocks and quick parts
• Create custom themes and templates
• Create and manage style sets
• ✓ Challenge: Custom Word elements
• ✓ Solution: Custom Word elements

Final Challenge

• ✓ Challenge: Full-length MOS expert sample exam for Word 2013
• ✓ Solution: Full-length MOS Expert sample exam for Word 2013

Conclusion

• Next steps