Create an Invoice in Word for Accounting that Streamlines Your Billing Process

Create an invoice in word for Accounting

in this video i'm going to show you how to create an invoice in microsoft word and this is exactly what we'll achieve by the end of this video so if you want to learn how to create your very own custom invoice keep watching hello guys this is online office teacher where i help you manage your data and information through online video just like this one so if you are new here consider subscribing that's it let's jump into the video having open word i go over to the insert tab and i click on table and i'm going to go ahead and insert a table of two columns three rows so i have two columns then i go down to the third row then i click to insert my table in the first cell i'm going to go ahead and insert a logo so i go over to the insert tab again take note my insertion point is inside the first cell then i click on pictures this device i have my logo right here i just selected click on insert it is too big i'll go ahead and reduce the size like this match in the next cell towards the right i enter code i'll make it capital letters in this cell below i enter the name of my company upper web and i hit enter and i'm going to go ahead and enter my slogan in here i enter invoice number so i'll just get a sample number i'll make it in thousands perfect hit enter then i enter date so with the date if i want i can insert an automated date such that anytime i open the invoice i'll get a current date but you don't have to do this if you don't want that i just want to show you the possibilities so to insert an automated date i go over to inset then i go over to date and time i'll go ahead and choose this format and make sure update automatically is checked then click on ok so each time this document is open you get a current date perfect in the last row on the first cell i enter my address okay i've entered my address finally in this cell i'll enter expiration date and with this expiration date cannot be automated date for this date you always have to enter it now just go ahead and enter in some dates so that it will be blank awesome i exist out of this table and i'm going to set a new table first of all i hit enter then i go over to insert click on table this time around i need a table of two columns one row just like that so in here i enter two in the next cell i enter the details of the client so the name of the client is john doe hit enter his company name jd company limited hit enter if the street address you can enter his phone number enter if you use customer id you can go ahead and add that maybe some numbers next i exit out of this table and i hit enter now go ahead and insert a new table by going to insert table in this camera i'll insert a table of four columns two rows like this in the first cell i enter sales person next job followed by payment times and finally due date all these fields are simple to get maybe the payment times can be due on receipt i exit out of this table and i hit enter next i insert my final table so i go over to insert then i click on table this table is going to be four columns 15 rows and in here i wouldn't be able to get that so to be able to insert the exact number of columns and rows i need to click on insert table number of columns i enter for the number of rows i enter 15 then i click on ok perfect then i go ahead and enter in my text so first i have quantity description unit price and finally amount and the unit price going to the last three cells in here i enter subtotal going down i enter sales tax and finally grant total or you can just call it twitter whichever way you like it next i exit out of this table and i hit enter then i enter quotation preferred by maybe i can provide some line here i just hold down shift and i press the dash key hit enter another enter next i enter in some acceptance texts to accept this quotation sign here and return i'll provide another line perfect and finally i'll enter thank you for your business so all my information is entered the next thing i'm going to do is go ahead and format my tables starting from top first of all i don't need these lines on the table so i select the entire table by clicking on the cross icon right here then i go over to table tools table design under borders i click on borders that i choose no border meanwhile you see that i still have some lines these are only grid lines if i print the invoice these lines will not show they are only here to guide me so for you to be able to see this grid line you need to make sure that you go to borders and make sure view grid line is selected so if i click on it the grid lines will go off so i'll go back and make sure they are enabled perfect next i click on this text you really need to click on it then go over to layout then i'll align it to top right so that will be at this corner meanwhile i'll increase the size by going to home and i'll go ahead and increase the start from here 28 is cool i can make it boil it next i click in this cell and i go back to layout and i'm going to go ahead and align it to bottom left meanwhile i'll increase the size of the name of my company i go to home increase the size to 26 whatever size you'll get here will depend upon how lengthy your company name is next i select the slogan and i'm going to go ahead and make it idealize i'm still in this cell next i go over to layout and the table tools and i'm going to go ahead and increase the height to 2 centimeters next i click anywhere in this cell and i'll go ahead and align it bottom right perfect next i click in here and make sure it is aligned top left and in here top right next is this table all that i need to do here is move this line make sure you get these two headed arrows when you point on the line and the vertical bar then you take it to this match and i'm going to go ahead and take off the lines so i select the entire table then i go over to table design borders no border next is this table i make sure everything is selected then i go over to layout and i'll increase the height to 0.7 centimeters the table is just selected i'll align everything to the center perfect maybe i want to change the thickness of the line on top so i'll go to table design then i go over to line weight at the moment it is half pt do i choose maybe to cortez after choosing the line you see that border painter is highlighted or selected so all what i need to do is come right here make sure the tip of the brush is on the line then click on it and drag to the end perfect so once the brush is still active maybe i want to do the same thing to this particular line on top awesome to disable the brush i click on water painter and the brush is disabled next i format this table by selecting it so if i click in here i click on the cross icon then i go over to layout and i'll increase the height to 0.7 centimeters now i'll format individual cells so first of all the row on top i highlight everything then i align everything to the center the whole of this column i'll align it to left center the same goes to this particular column and here under unit price and amount since we are going to be talking about money they should be aligned to the right so i highlight everything in here then i click on align center right next i'm going to go ahead and adjust the columns so starting from here i move it this much i'll decrease the amount make sure you remove the highlighting like this much and i'll decrease the unit price column as well so that there will be enough space for discretion next thing i'm going to do is remove some lines here i don't want starting from this side i don't need all the inner lines so i highlight them up then i go over to table design and i choose no other but you can see that the line here is off meanwhile we need it and the line here as well so what we can do is i can highlight here that is the three cells here then i go over to borders then i choose left border oops it is so using the line weight i selected earlier i'll take it back to half and i'll go back to borders then i choose left border next i'll go ahead and highlight these three cells then i go to brothers this area i'll choose bottom border maybe i can add some more flavor to my tables by making the headings bullet perfect everything is set however you see that i have two pages which i don't want so what i'm going to go ahead and do is i want to decrease the margin down here below so to do that i go to the ruler right here then i hover in between the white area and the gray area i'll get these two headed arrows i click and drag down like this i'll go up and do the same thing so that i'll have one page i still have to pay this i cancel go up a bit now i have one page perfect one thing i can also do is select this text then i make it void italic and align it to the center now let's take a preview of it and see how it will come up when we try to print it okay so this is how my invoice will look like very neat and clean i go back so with this you can go ahead and save it as a template so that each time you open the template it will give you a new document instead of distracting the main template so let me show you how you can save this as a template to do that i go over to file then i click on save as you can choose whichever location you want i'll choose document and see what i'll get in the end then the file name i call it invoice and then save as type i drop down the arrow then i'll go ahead and choose web template and it will take me off from the documents folder and now redirect it to the custom office templates next i click on save and my invoice template is saved so that's it on how to create an invoice in microsoft word i hope this video was helpful if you found value candela hit the like button subscribe and also enable the notification bell so that each time i post a new video on this channel you will be the first to know keep watching and i will see you in the next video [Music] you