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MS Word

Microsoft Word or MS-WORD (often called Word) is a graphical word processing program that users can type with. It is made by the computer company Microsoft. Its purpose is to allow users to type and save documents.

Similar to other word processors, it has helpful tools to make documents.

• Spelling & grammar checker, word count (this also counts letters and lines)
• Speech recognition
• Inserts pictures in documents
• Choice of typefaces
• Special codes
• Web pages, graphs, etc.
• Tables
• Displays synonyms of words and can read out the text
• Prints in different ways

History

The program was first released in 1981. Many of the ideas and features in Microsoft Word came from Bravo, the first graphical writing program. Microsoft bought the Bravo program, and changed its name to Microsoft Word. When it first came out, it was not very popular, and did not sell as well as other writing programs like WordPerfect. Although it was not very popular when it came out, it had a feature called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which meant that people can change the visual style of writing (e.g. bold, italics), by clicking on buttons, when in other programs like WordPerfect, people had to add special 'codes' to change the style of writing. WYSIWYG is now a common feature of all computer writing programs.

Versions

There are versions for Microsoft Word for other operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows. New versions support fewer operating systems, although they always support Windows.

For Microsoft Windows

Note:' "Word for Windows" is the name of the Microsoft word made for Microsoft Windows.'

• Word for Windows 1.0, for Windows 2.x came out in 1989.
• Word for Windows 1.1, for Windows 3.0 came out in March, 1990.
• Word for Windows 1.1a, for Windows 3.1 came out in June, 1990.
• Word for Windows 2.0, came out in 1991.
• Word for Windows 6.0, came out in 1993.
• Word for Windows 95 (sometimes called Word 7), came out in 1995.
• Word 97 (sometimes called Word 8), came out in 1997.
• Word 2000 (sometimes called Word 9), came out in 1999.
• Word 2002 (sometimes called Word 10 or Word XP), came out in 2001.
• Word 2007 which required Windows XP services pack 2. It is the last version of Microsoft Word to support Windows XP Professional 64 bit edition.

Popularity

The program is very popular.

Without configuration the program saved the document in a proprietary file format, so other programs could not open it. When the user sent his document to a friend, the friend needed a copy of Microsoft Word to read the document. Then that friend would probably also save documents in the same secret format of Word. This gave Microsoft Word a dominant position.

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How to Use Microsoft Office Word 2007

Two Parts:Learning The BasicsMaking Your First DocumentCommunity Q&A

Microsoft Word 2007 is relatively new and improved from earlier versions. Maybe you're used to the older or newer updated versions of Microsoft Office Word? This article shows you how to use this particular edition of MS Word.

Part1

Learning The Basics

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   Start off with the toolbar. The toolbar has seven different tabs. They are: Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View.
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   Get yourself familiar with⇱ Home tab. This tab is the basic word processing tools, like for example, size, font, color, style, etc. You will find that you're going to go here most of the time.
   

   • Insert: This tab contains more tools than the Home tab, and it's really for inserting things. They are really helpful, and they're just not used for basic word processing. They're also used for a professional document. Some things you can do in this tab are add clip art, add links, etc.
     
     

     
   • Page Layout: This tab is mostly there for adding the final touch to your document and fixing it a little. You can change the orientation, the size of your document, and pretty much you can do things you normally can't do basically.
     
     

     
   • References: This tab is for inserting references. For example, adding citations, a table of contents, footnotes, bibliography, captions, etc.
     
     

     
   • Mailings: This tab is for making envelopes and labels, starting a mail merge (sending the same document to different people),
     
     

     
   • Review: This tab is for things like spelling and grammar, translating, a dictionary, a thesaurus, adding a comment, etc.
     
     

     
   • View: This tab has something to do with how your document looks like. It's sort of similar to Page Layout, except it's more of adjusting things, like zoom in, zoom out, etc.
     
     

     
   • Format: This tab only applies with pictures, clip art, word art, or photos. This tab is for adjusting the image(s) and text, like changing the brightness, contrast, effect, color, etc.
     
     

     

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   Let's go on to the part where you make your first document. Read on to find out what to do.
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   Open up Microsoft Word and start a new blank document. You do this by clicking on the icon that looks like a blank page with one corner turned down.
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   Begin the process by saving.
   

   • To save, click on the circular Microsoft Office logo in the upper left hand corner of the window. You should see a little menu pop-up with multiple options.
   • Leave the cursor over the words Save As. You should always do Save As when you're making a new document. It gives you the option of what kind of document you want it to be, where you're going to save it, and what the name of the document will be.
   • Up will pop a window.
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   Click on Word 97-2003 Document or Word Document. Word 97-2003 Documentallows other people to see it, even if they have older versions of Word and haven't installed the Office 2007 Compatibility Pack, while if you use Word Document, only people that have Word 2007 or the Compatibility Pack can open it. Either one is a good choice.
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   If this is your first time using Microsoft Word Office 2007, create a new folder for your documents. Just type something like "Sample Documents" or something you want to name it.
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   Go back to the empty document. Choose a font that you think is a style you like. Some suggested fonts are Times New Roman, Calibri (Body), and Arial. The picture below shows you an example of what to do.
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