Overview of MS Word
Here we begin our overview of MS Word and introduce you to our character, Nick, who will provide us with some sample projects as we move along.
Introduction
Nick has just found the summer job of his dreams. He is going to write for an adventure club newsletter.
He plans to create the newsletter using MS Word. It would make writing, editing, and formatting very easy. Plus, he can also insert clipart or pictures to jazz up the appearance of the newsletter.
1. Overview of MS Word
MS Word is a popular word processor that can be learned fast and is easy to use. It gives you a great deal of flexibility in creating attractive documents of various types; from letters to colorful pamphlets, project reports and newsletters. With this tool, you can create and edit documents, add pictures, insert tables, choose attractive fonts… in short, turn your simple text into a piece of art!
Word processors are an essential tool for creating documents on computers. With word processing programs such as MS Word, you can:
- Create a document and edit it by adding more text, modify existing text, delete and move portions of it.
- Change the size of the margins to reformat the complete document or part of the text.
- Change font size and type.
Insert page numbers as well as headers and footers. - Automatically check and correct word spellings
- Format text in columns as seen in newspapers.
- Create tables to be included in the text.
- Insert graphics and pictures in the text.
