CREATING A WORD DOCUMENT Microsoft Word is a word-processing application that can be part of the Microsoft Office suite or a stand-alone program. The program can be used to write letters and different types of documents that can include graphics and pictures. A word processor included free with the Windows operating system is WordPad, which doesn’t have all the features of Word but does have some formatting features. It can be found in the ‘Start’ menu under ‘Accessories’
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Formatting in ms word Microsoft Word 2010 is one of the powerful word-processing application to date. The most important aspect of your document is that it should be well formatted so that readers can understand your point easily.
Styles A style is a set of formatting characteristics that you can apply to text, tables and lists in your document to quickly change their appearance.select that area and click the Homemenu
Text Alignment You need to align text in your document to give it the neat look, Microsoft Word offers text alignment to Center, Left and Right align selected text. Select the text and choose the alignment option from the Home > Paragraph Option.
Numbering And Bullets In many cases you need to list down some certain points or you need to create check lists. In such situations you require the numbering and bullets feature. You can find it located under the Home > Paragraph option.
Adding Columns To Word Document In many cases you need to write the contents of your documents in the column format. Select the paragraphs and hit the Columns option located under the Page Layout menu. Then choose the number of columns that you wish to create.
Border And Shading Microsoft Word offer features to apply border and shadings to your document. You can apply a border, shading or both around a single word, a selection of words, a paragraph, a group of paragraphs, a single page, a section, or all pages. Simply hit the Shading option to choose the shading style.
Text Indentation You can increase or decrease the indentation of selected text by choosing the desired option from theParagraph section.
Fonts You can play with fonts in many ways. You can change text’s font color, style, background color etc. It is also a piece of cake to Bold, Italic or Underline the text in your document. The whole list of fonts options are located under the Font section in the Home menu.
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