Wednesday, October 22, 2008

What is Microsoft Word?

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Microsoft word is word processing program that provides us the facility for documentation. We can create and type letters, reports, newsletters, brochures, etc. In MS Word we can set toolbars and we will hide & show the toolbars . Toolbars is used to display shortcut buttons to make editing and formatting quicker and easier in Ms Word. Word provides an undo, which is used to remove the effect of last action. Action can be done again by using redo. The ruler is used for documentation. Header is to automatically display text at the top of each page. Footer is text that appears at the bottom of the each page. Word provides wizard for creating professional-looking Web pages. The use of styles in word allows to quickly formatting a document with a consistent and professional look. Paragraph and character styles can be designed, saved, changed& deleted. Bullets and the numbers are used to display a list of items with a symbol or number at the start of each line. It makes the text more readable and decorated. Word allows you to draw many different geometrical shapes, arrows, flow chart symbols stars, and banners on the documents. Word provides to store text permanently for using repeatedly in documents. Text is a collection of row and columns. You can easily display your data in tables. These tables can also be formatted. You can easily add rows and columns from a table without distributing your data. Word allows you to a particular word or pieces of text by using Find command. After you have found the word, it can be replaced by executing Replace command. Spelling and Grammar in Word help the user correct any mistakes made when typing the document. Your misspelled words are highlighted by the red underline and grammar errors by green underline. Word automatically corrects many commonly misspelled words and punctuation marks with the AutoCorrect. Word provides us AutoFormat that automatically changes text as you type. AutoFormat includes such formatting as numbered and bulleted lists, borders, capitalization, and common spelling errors. Word has an excellent feature for finding words with similar meanings. You can select any word from the list of suggested words. Word provides us Thesaurus this is used to find different words. A template is a preformatted document that serves as a model creating new documents. You can create professional looking letters, memos, reports, and others documents easily. Word provides the facility to set a password on the document. It stops unauthorized use of your documents and provides protection to your data. Word provide us the of Word Art this is used to give artistic shapes to text. Word allows dividing the page in the form of columns. You can us any number of column in your documents. Word provides printing facility. You can change the color, back ground color, size, and style of your text. You can apply formatting on characters, paragraphs, and whole pages. You can add your comments on your documents. These comments are used as a reference for the user.

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