This comprehensive learning package integrates keyboarding, essential and advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skills within a single text, along with a strong emphasis on honing skills by competing projects in a realistic office environment. Using Microsoft® Word 2016, students will format advanced business correspondence, tables, reports, mail merge files, graphics, and a broad range of common document types, including meeting, travel, news, legal, medical, and human resources/employment. The text includes 15 modular projects and three comprehensive projects to help students apply what they learn and prepare to be productive immediately when beginning their careers. Combined with Skills Assessment Manager (SAM)—an interactive, online learning and testing tool—the text makes your course easier to teach and manage by enabling students to work independently from anywhere.

Part I: KEYBOARDING--FOUNDATION FOR ALL CAREERS.
1. Alphabetic Keys (L1-13).
2. Figure and Symbol Keys (L14-25).
Part II: ESSENTIALS--FORMATTING BUSINESS DOCUMENTS.
3. Word 2016 Essentials (L26-31).
4. Memos and Letters (L32-37).
5. Tables (L38-42).
6. Reports (L43-49).
7. Graphics (L50-53).
8. Project 1: Palmetto Event Solutions, Inc. (L54-55).
9. Real-Time Co-Authoring on OneDrive.
Part III: BEYOND THE ESSENTIALS--FORMATTING ADVANCED DOCUMENTS.
10. Advanced Business Correspondence (L56-60).
11. Documents with Complex Tables and Graphics (L61-69).
12. Business Reports (L70-75).
13. Mail Merge (L76-80).
14. Project 2: Hess Pet Center I (L81-83).
Part IV: DOCUMENTS FOR SPECIALIZED FIELDS.
15. Meeting, Travel, and News Documents (L84-88).
16. Human Resources/Employment Documents (L89-93).
17. Health and Medical Documents (94-98).
18. Legal Documents (L99-104).
19. Project 3: Hess Pet Center II (L105-107).
20. Real-Time Co-Authoring on OneDrive (L108-110).
Appendix A: Windows 10.
Appendix B: File Management.
Appendix C: Reference Guide.
Appendix D: Command Summary.

This comprehensive learning package integrates keyboarding, essential and advanced word processing, document formatting and design, and communication skills within a single text, along with a strong emphasis on honing skills by competing projects in a realistic office environment. Using Microsoft® Word 2016, students will format advanced business correspondence, tables, reports, mail merge files, graphics, and a broad range of common document types, including meeting, travel, news, legal, medical, and human resources/employment. The text includes 15 modular projects and three comprehensive projects to help students apply what they learn and prepare to be productive immediately when beginning their careers. Combined with Skills Assessment Manager (SAM)—an interactive, online learning and testing tool—the text makes your course easier to teach and manage by enabling students to work independently from anywhere. Skills Assessment Manager (SAM), an interactive, online learning and testing tool, is now available for use in conjunction with the printed text, giving you access to powerful teaching and course management capabilities while allowing students to work independently when and where they like. Skill Builders now include new standard plans for using timed writings, building speed, and improving accuracy; updated instructions in drills and timed writings enable students to apply these plans and gain hands-on, practical experience. Coverage of new features in Windows® 10 and Microsoft® Word 2016, including Save to Cloud, Share, and co-authoring in real time. Graphics modules now incorporate online pictures and videos to bring the content to life, while Communicating Today features highlight important industry trends and their relation to productivity tools found in Microsoft® Word 2016. Encompassing everything students need to communicate successfully in today’s digital workplaces, this comprehensive text covers keyboarding, word processing (essential and advanced), formatting and design of various office and professional documents, and professional communication skills. The authors employ a proven, pedagogically sound approach to teach word processing and document formatting using five steps: Locate and learn commands (Ribbon path), Execute commands (step-by-step directions and screenshots), Apply new commands (short drills), Integrate document design, and Reinforce commands and formats in realistic projects. With a research-based, pedagogically sound approach to teaching keyboarding and skill building, the text includes a standard plan for learning new key reaches, carefully written drills to build fluency and strengthen key reaches, and supplemental drills and timed writings to strengthen and refine keyboarding skills, as well as illustrations, photos, and tips to reinforce correct techniques. An extensive Reference Guide covers grammatical rules and guidelines and includes a range of model documents, giving students consistent examples to use as a standard for their work. Communication activities, based on rules outlined in the Reference Guide, further reinforce essential business communication skills and prepare students for academic and job success. Fifteen projects conclude key module, giving students an opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills to realistic workplace scenarios, while three comprehensive projects integrate critical thinking, document formatting, and word processing skills.