Description:

Microsoft Word is a word processor, a well-liked computer program that lets and helps you to make, design and correct text documents, like papers from school, or letters to and from your office at work or at home.

Microsoft also lets you add graphics from other programs, like clip art.

Clip art is a helpful tool, especially if you did not have internet. It’s helpful to have when in need of an example picture.

As well as working with word, not only can you edit and create text, you can have your document displayed as a web site.

Using word also benefits you because you are spending more time writing, and less time formatting your text. Microsoft Word creates professional looking documents and contents.

Uses:

·        Teachers use Microsoft word to help express their personal documents, and save future class assignments.

·        A Word Processor Operator’s duties are copy typing, audio typing and typing short hand.

·        Field Engineers can use Microsoft word to make charts, graphs and things to put the information in while you are typing.

Features:

·        In the Word Processing World, “Microsoft Word” you are able to customize envelopes with pictures in such. We’ll you’re not able to insert an actual envelope, but folding a paper hot dog style and place it in the slot, and choose your preferences, you’ve made yourself a spiffy envelope using word.

·        Word also allows you to control the sizes of your images that you’ve placed in-between your text.

·        There are several different options on how to view your text, to use this tool you must drag your mouse to the view tab, on the sub menu your choices are; Normal, Web Layout, Print Layout. I would recommend using Print Layout, because you have more of a view on your text.

·        Not only in Paint, can you use text boxes, but also in word. Text boxes allow you control a certain portion of your text. Using text boxes you can place the boxes anywhere in your document without having to re-write your text.

On the bottom toolbar of Microsoft Word, there is an icon containing the letter A with lines after it. This icon is the text box.

·        How to create alternative text for images: 1.) While you are in word, move your mouse to Format, Picture, 2.) Select the tab Web then type the name, and author or as you prefer which picture you would like to see.

Research & History

1981-1989

It was first released in 1983 in the given name of Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. Additional versions were later on written for other programs including; Apple Microsoft, and Microsoft Windows.

The majority of words ideas were envisioned from Bravo, the initial word processor.

Microsoft word has a concept of “what you see is what you get” which was the ability to display bold and italics.

1990-1995

First version of Word for Windows was discharged for 500 American US dollars. The company was warned by word owners, that the program was slow for Macintosh and faster for windows. So in the year of 1994, it was disqualified.

Example Document

In Word, you can insert the date & time. You can insert word art, clip art, place shadows & 3-D styles around your texts and pictures.

You can insert (WORD- ART) by going to the task bar, insert then picture and then once you are on the sub-menu, click “word art”. And you have got it.

In this word processor you are able to check your spelling, just as easy as the ABC’s. First place your mouse over the main task bar, click tools and then, Spelling & Grammar. You go through and the computer will tell you the words misspelled, you click through and correct them. Then the computer will let you know when you are done. And then you will be.