Welcome to the second section of Module 1 where I want to go through and talk to you
about what’s new in Word 2016.
Now obviously if you’ve never used Word before then it’s all going to be new to
you.
But if you have used Word in the past then you’ll want to know what some of the new
options are.
So let me show you a few of those right now.
One of the first things you’re going to notice in all of the Microsoft Office products
is they have this little option called Tell Me and you can see right here when I click
that I can tell Word what it is that I’m trying to do.
So let’s say that I’d like to insert a picture but I don’t have a clue where to
go.
I’m going to type in Insert Picture and it’s going to come up with all of the options
related to pictures right here and I can click on the particular one that I’d like to work
with.
So in this particular case I clicked on Insert Picture and it’s taken me to where my files
are on my computer so I could search for that picture and choose that file.
So I’m going to go ahead and close that.
So that’s one that a lot of people like.
Also the Sharing is a lot better in Office 2016 now.
Right up here on the top right you’re going to see the Share option here.
And what this allows you to do is if you wanted to go ahead and store your document online
at OneDrive or if you have a SharePoint server then you can share it with all your colleagues
or other people that you’d like to see the file and be able to work on it at the same
time with you.
The way this works is that you can see each other’s changes to the document as they
actually happen, which is really kind of cool.
After you save the document online you just click Share to generate a link or an email
invitation.
When your other teammates open the document and agree to automatically share changes you’ll
see their work in real time.
So you can go ahead and do that and then you’ll hit Save to the Cloud, that’s how you’d
actually upload it and then that’s out there on OneDrive.
And by the way you do have to have a OneDrive account or if you’re using Office 365 then
that would work perfect for you.
So let me go ahead and close that window right now.
Another thing you’re going to find is that if you have a word you’ve typed in, you’ve
got something called Smart Lookup.
Let me just type some word in here.
Let’s say Exciting.
Now if I go ahead and select the word, which we’ll be talking about how to do that later,
and I just right click on it you’ll notice the Smart Lookup.
And what that’s going to do is it’s powered by Bing and it brings research directly into
your Word 2016 document.
So when you select a word like this or phrase if you needed to then you can right click
like I did, choose the Smart Lookup and the Insights pane will open with definitions.
So when I click on that here’s your Insights pane over here on the right.
So these, like I said, are definitions, they’re Wiki articles, or talk related searches from
the web.
So it’s going to use Bing for its search.
And this is really cool because you can see adjectives for Exciting and can see, if you
scroll down here, Wikipedia and like I said, there’s the Web Search as well.
So if you wanted to go to one of these websites you could do that.
So let me close that and let’s talk about something else that’s new.
If you happen to work a lot with math equations then this has gotten much easier than it used
to be.
Now what you can do is you can go up to this Insert tab at the top here and all the way
to the right here you’re going to see Equation.
And you’ll notice that if you click the down arrow there you’re going to see Ink
Equation down at the bottom.
Now what happens here is that if you want to include some sort of complex math equation
in your document you can actually do it here.
If you have a touchscreen device you can use your finger or if a stylus you want to use
that or you can just write it by hand and Word will convert it to text.
If you don’t have a touch device you can use a mouse to write as well.
You can also edit, select and correct what you’ve already written as you go along.
Excel has this feature as well.
So just kind of know that.
I’m going to go ahead and cancel that right now and let’s see what else is new here.
Alright a couple more things I’ll just mention.
You’ve got improved version history here.
What’s really cool about his is if you have a document and you’d saved it before and
now you go and make some changes to it, you can actually go up to the File tab right here
and see History which is grayed out because in this particular one I don’t have any
history but if I did I’d be able to see a whole list of all the changes that I had
made.
So that’s really cool.
And then the last thing I want to mention is a little bit about the sharing.
We did talk earlier about using the Share button right up here.
But just remember that if you wanted to share your document with others on SharePoint, on
OneDrive then you can actually do that and you can also send a PDF copy as well as an
email attachment and it goes directly from Word.
So just so you’ll know that you have the ability to send it that way.
And then also you have faster Shape formatting.
So if you’ve used the shapes before in PowerPoint or even Excel or Word then you’ve got lots
of shapes in the Shapes gallery and there’s a whole new collection of preset fills as
far as theme colors and that way you can quickly get the look that you want.
So those are just some of the new things that are new to Office 2016, in particular Word
some of them.
So why don’t we go ahead and wrap up this video and then go ahead and get you started
on the next one.
So I will see you over in section 3.