File, New

Quick reference

• 00:00 Hello, in this lesson I want to show you the predesigned templates
• 00:06 that are available for anyone that has Microsoft Word on their system.
• 00:12 These are templates that you don't have to have to pay for, there are now copyright
• 00:16 infringements because you already paid for the copy of Microsoft Word on your system.
• 00:20 You're free to use these.
• 00:22 At this point in Microsoft Word, you know how to basically type and format and
• 00:27 color your fonts and stuff, but you begin to enter the zone of typing letters or
• 00:32 typing resumes, and you may not know how to lay them out properly.
• 00:36 When you click on the file menu right up here with have new.
• 00:40 So file, new and here is a catalog of predesigned files,
• 00:44 templates, flyers, newsletters,
• 00:47 calendars, invitations, whatever you like, you can click on these and download them.
• 00:52 You do need an active Internet connection in order to get the download.
• 00:56 If there's something, or nothing on that screen you like, right up here,
• 00:59 under the box, we have suggested searches, business, personal, industry, print,
• 01:03 design sets, event, and education.
• 01:04 What I want to do, is I already know what I want to look at.
• 01:08 I want to look at thank you letters.
• 01:09 So I'm just gonna type thank you letter, and hit Enter, and
• 01:12 it is searching online for already predesigned thank you letters.
• 01:16 Notice on the right, it says thank you, 22.
• 01:18 It just found 22 variations of a thank you letter.
• 01:20 We also have business letters, basic letters, industry letters,
• 01:25 personal letters and so forth.
• 01:27 You can go ahead and read through that list.
• 01:29 If it doesn't show you the whole entire name underneath, thank you letter for
• 01:33 job reference, just float your mouse, and the tool tip will show the full name.
• 01:38 If there's any on here that you really like, and so
• 01:41 you'd like to put it to the top cuz you're gonna use it again,
• 01:44 just hit the little pushpin, and it will actually pin it onto the list.
• 01:48 So the next time you come in here, it will be near the top.
• 01:53 If there's a particular letter you would like to download right then and there,
• 01:56 you'll just double click and it will open up the letter onto your screen.
• 02:00 And when this opened it up, it looks a little odd up here.
• 02:02 There's a big gap.
• 02:05 It's just a glitch in Microsoft Word, so what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna click
• 02:09 off that screen, click right back to it, and look, it fixed itself.
• 02:13 That happens periodically when programs come out with new versions.
• 02:18 There's little tiny glitches in there.
• 02:19 It's not your fault.
• 02:20 It's just the computer.
• 02:21 Just coax it through and it will correct itself.
• 02:24 These are called fields, it has my name at the top, but you can click on a field and
• 02:28 enter your individual information, of course,
• 02:31 when you open your own, it won't have your name.
• 02:34 I'm sorry, it won't have my name there, it will have your name up there.
• 02:38 So I can just type A student, company name, address, city, state,
• 02:41 I would just fill out these fields.
• 02:43 Notice, I don't have to know how to format this, it's already formatted for me.
• 02:48 Again, even the letter is full of different little fields.
• 02:51 Just click around and fill them out, it's very nice.
• 02:54 When you're done, print, and move on.
• 02:57 Okay, I want to go back here, because I want to fill out a resume.
• 03:01 File, new.
• 03:03 In the search, I'm gonna just type resume.
• 03:05 I don't have to put the accent mark at the end, it will know what I'm looking for,
• 03:08 and what will happen is here's all the different kinds of resumes.
• 03:12 Basic resume, functional resume, chronological resume.
• 03:15 And, anyway, just double click on any one of them you like, and
• 03:19 it will download a resume format.
• 03:22 Again, it has my name at the top, because my computer is registered under my name.
• 03:26 It will have your name at the top when you open it.
• 03:30 And again, a bunch of fields.
• 03:31 Now look at this big gap.
• 03:32 Also I'm just gonna click off of it, click right back to it, now the gap is gone.
• 03:38 Again, just a bug in Microsoft Word.
• 03:39 Go ahead and scroll through here.
• 03:41 You'll enter your computer skills, your software skills, your experience, and
• 03:46 this is just one of many resumes that were available.
• 03:49 And I have yet to meet an HR person, human resources person at a company,
• 03:54 who is disappointed that this person used a Microsoft Word template for a resume.
• 03:58 No, that doesn't happen.
• 04:00 They're thrilled that you have a properly formatted resume when you're
• 04:03 applying for a job.
• 04:04 These are perfectly acceptable to use in any job application situation.
• 04:09 So please feel free to go through the catalog under File,
• 04:12 new, review these, it's quite delightful.
• 04:15 Especially when you're looking at flyers and
• 04:16 newsletters that you don't have to design.
• 04:18 You just open them up and add your text.
• 04:21 All right.
• 04:21 Have fun looking through there.
• 04:23 I love it.
• 04:24 It's wonderful.

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