Microsoft Word Online Tutoring

Customized MS Word Tutoring

There are three levels of tutoring sessions that can be used as a baseline for determining the type of features you would like to become more proficient and productive at. If you like to write or need to summarize research findings, these skills will help you create Microsoft Word (MS Word) documents whether you are creating basic letters or professional documents that can be used for a friend, school, or business. MS Word versions taught cover 2007 through 2016 and Office 365.

Each session is customized to your abilities and desires. Here is an overview of the types of features reviewed for each level.

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Basic

Get familiar with Microsoft (MS) Word by learning how to:

  • Make MS Word files: formatting; text sizes, fonts, colors; line spacing; headers

  • Copy & paste text into MS Word files

  • Import pictures from your files or the web

  • How use spell check and grammar check

  • Turn on all helpful hidden characters and see why they are so important (See the BLOG titled 'MS Word and Special Characters')

  • Use of basic ribbon capabilities

  • Indent and the use of the Ruler

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Mid-Level

Learn more than just the basics. Gain an understanding of how to:

  • Make personal letters and business letter

  • Prepare automatic signatures and other formatting features

  • Create a Table of Contents (TOC), perform indexing, and link from within the MS Word file, as well as to the web (see the BLOG titled 'MS Word Tables and Pagination')

  • Import pictures embedded into the MS Word file, or externally linked, with and without picture titles

  • Link to other files such as videos or other executable files from within an MS Word file

  • Create headers and footers

  • More use of the MS Word Ribbon

  • The use of footnotes

  • Use more features of the ruler

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Advanced

Perfect your skills like a pro. Adding to your abilities, learn:

  • How to use many of MS Word’s powerful features, such as:

    • Maintaining and updating a Table of Contents (TOC) (See the BLOG titled 'MS Word Tables and Pagination)

    • Importing pictures linked elsewhere to keep Word file size down

    • Indexing individual words or phrases and create an index

    • Creating your own TOCs, such as a list of all your ‘embedded’ pictures called 'Table of Figures'

    • Creating a bibliography (reference table)

  • Use Endnotes instead of footnotes

  • Learn to make personal letters, business letter, automatic signatures, and formatting for each

  • Create TOC with indexing and links within MS Word and from the Web

  • How to import pictures or externally link pictures with titles to build a picture TOC

  • How to link to other files, such as videos or other executable files

  • Learn how to 'float' pictures within an MS Word file

  • Create changing headers and footers within a document

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About Our Tutoring Sessions

Every tutorial is customized to meet your needs. The first session of 1 to 1.5 hours is free to setup your system and ensure the person being tutored understands the process and instructions. Scheduling is arranged to fit your availability. Each tutoring session is conducted online and managed remotely by Vincent LaVallee, owner of el Consulting and longtime PC veteran, from Chandler, Arizona.

The length of time for the each session ranges from 1 to 3 or 4 hours. The number of sessions needed to become proficient at any level is determined by your ability to retain information, your willingness to do suggested tasks, and your interest in mastering the material. The key, as with anything that is new, is to practice the material covered. Cost per hour is $18.50.

We accept payment via personal check or PayPal. Instructions will be provided when scheduling, and an invoice will be sent out semi-monthly or monthly, based on your needs.

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"I also read his Windows tutorial written in Microsoft Word on the above subjects (File Manager, making a file tree structure, organization, folders & sub-folders, when to highlight, how to copy & move files, saving pictures from the camera to the computer, from email to the computer, and using a flash drive for back-up). I would get back to him on any points that were not clear to me. He would then revise his Windows tutorial until it was clear to me; thereby being clear for most "beginners." I was learning MS Word at the same time!"

Mary Downey

Prescott, AZ

"In between learning basic MS Excel, Vincent has taught me some basics of MS Word as well. While our focus now is MS Excel, I have learned a bit of MS Word also – such as the use of special hidden characters, basic tab usage, paragraph indentation, font selection and its attributes (italics, bold, color, underlining, etc.), inserting text from other sources, and opening and saving Word files."

Pat Kane, R.N.,

Long Beach, California


Vincent began helping me as I was formatting a book my husband was writing, and I was going nuts in the process. My husband wrote the book, and I was the one to transcribe it into Word, thinking that this wouldn’t be too difficult! But did Vincent ever expand my knowledge of “Word” capabilities! His tutorials, and close examination of the book, helped me to create things I did not even know about: such as a live Table of Contents (TOC), all with hot links within the book for all the TOC entries. Now Word manages all of the TOC, with its keeping track of all the page numbers automatically and not managed by me! He then showed me how to let Word create the Endnotes (footnotes - all at the end of the file instead of on each page), using Word’s built-in capability, so they are now managed automatically by Word, and not by me! Thus, he showed me how to let Word manage tables, endnotes, and some others.

He also showed me the various ways to bring into the Word document pictures, as fixed (stuck in a permanent spot), or as floaters (you can grab them and just move them around). He definitely upgraded my understanding of Word capabilities in document formatting and design. In particular, which takes some getting ‘use to’, that was in making the pages look very nice. There were many more aspects of Word’s capability I was introduced to. I would never have been able to successfully complete this huge Word project without his enormous help. And now I can see that my new knowledge carries over to so many Word other projects, and even outside of Word. Elle Patton,

Kansas