Saturday, November 15, 2008

Basics of MS Word

Computers have highly affected our lifestyle and work patterns and so has writing. Writing is one of the ways of conveying information. Writing has become easy and smooth as many application programs are developed.
Microsoft Word or MS Word is a powerful word processing program that gives a professional look to the document. In Word documents one can combine spreadsheets, text, and graphics . Web pages can be created too! Word Processor is easy to use with Word's pull-down menus, toolbars, and buttons.
This blog will explore the features of Word Processor which was yet undiscovered by many.
Features of Word Processor: Word Processor removes all the limitations of the conventional typewriter.It has many useful features which were never imagined with the typewriter.Working on Word Processor has been an exuberant activity now.Typing has become so fast. Editing feature in Word has enabled insertions, deletions, and modifications.Its formatting facility makes the text appear in bold, italics and underline.The document looks neat and presentable with different font and size given to the text.One can incorporate drawings in the document.Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) is one of the special feature.OLE is a program-integrated technology that allows embedding and linking to documents and other objects.The document can be gramatical-error-free and spell checked with Word Processor.It also suggests alternative for mis-spelt words.Moreover,mail merge option enables to print letters/documents in bulk with similar text,but changing the name and address. Actually this facility merges the main document with the data source. The main document stores the original text with data area to appropriate places. these data areas are successfully filled by the information in data source and the merged document is printed.

Looking at all these features I feel every person must be aware of Microsoft Word.