What is Microsoft word?

is a user- friendly word processing software designed for even the most in experienced.

the software program is used to view, edit, create and save various kinds of electronic document, from formal letters, resume ,flyers and posters, and much more.

History of Microsoft Word Microsoft founders bills gates and Paul Allen hired Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, two former Xerox programmers, to develop the very first version of MS- word.

these two programmers previously worked on Xerox bravo, which was Wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) word processor, the very first of its kind.

Version of Ms-Word 2007 October 1983 for MS- DOS 1989 slight improvements in its user interface 1990 Word as an official commercial success 1991 and 1993 word 2.0 and word 6.0 1995 and 1997 from was renamed (word for office XP in conjunction with windows commercial names.

Parts of Microsoft Word screen

The main Microsoft Word 2007 window contains some elements that enable the user to use its many features to create and edit documents. The following descriptions are provided for some of the most important elements:

1. OFFICE BUTTON: Opens the office menu, allowing user to open, save, print, and create new documents.

2.QUICK ACCESS TOOLBAR: Lies next to the office button. This toolbar contains shortcuts for commonly used commands.

3. TABS: The ribbon at the top of the window is organized into tabs for quick access and convenience and is grouped according to task. Such tabs include Home, Insert, Page Layout, References, Mailings, Review, and View.

4. TITLE BAR: Lets the user view the name of the presently running program and name of the active document.

5. MINIMIZE BUTTON: Allows the user to shrink the window toe current a bar on the taskbar; clicking this button will allow the window to enlarge to its original size.

6. MAXIMIZE/ RESTORE BUTTON: A click of this button will enlarge a current, full screen sized window to windowed size, and vice versa.

7.CLOSE(QUIT) BUTTON: Quits the application and closes all opened documents.

8.WORD HELP: Accesses the Help viewer pop-up window and finds help content appropriate for the context.

9.COMMAND BUTTONS: Aside from doing specific things to selected text, these buttons help organize commands for the various tabs.

10. RIBBON: The combination of the menu and tool bar, providing tabbed “pages” of buttons, lists, and commands.

11.GROUPS: Each tab is logically divided into groups of buttons , where the most popular buttons appear in the ribbon. Some groups also contain additional options that may be viewed by clicking a launcher.

12. VIEW RULER: Acts as a toggle.

13.INSERTION POINTER: This blinking vertical line, also known as the cursor, helps signify the location where the typed text will be inserted.

14.VERTICAL SCROLL BAR: This bar allows you to move between pages since the document will usually be longer than the available space on the screen. Scrolling download will let the user access the lower parts of the document.

15. ETHEREAL VOID: The gray-colored space between and surrounding the document pages.

16. STATUS BAR: Shows information about the documents and provides shortcut for viewing and zooming purposes.

17. DOCUMENT INFORMATION: Displays the current page as well as the number of words in the opened document.

18. VIEW BUTTONS: Gives the user several options to view the active Word document window/page.

19. ZOOM: Changes the document size as it appears in the window, default value is usually 100%.

Elements in the MS-WORD 2007 ribbon:

1. Office Button

2. Tab

3. Group

4. Command Button

5. Dialog box launcher

WHAT ARE THE TOOLBARS In MS- WORD? HOME INSERT PAGE LAYOUT REFERENCES MAILING REVIEW VIEW

HOME

CLIPBOARD CUT COPY PASTE

FONT

PARAGRAPH

STYLES

EDITING

INSERT

PAGES

TABLE

ILLUSTRATION

LINKS

HEADER AND FOOTER

TEXT

SYMBOLS

PAGE LAYOUT

THEMES

PAGE SETUP

PAGE BACKGROUND

PARAGRAPH

ARRANGE

REFERENCES

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FOOTNOTES

CITATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

CAPTIONS

INDEX

TABLE OF AUTHORITIES

MAILINGS

CREATE

START MAIL MERGE

WRITE AND INSERT FIELDS

PREVIEW AND RESULTS

FINISH

REVIEW

PROOFING

COMMENTS

TRACKING

CHANGES

COMPARE

PROTECT

VIEW

DOCUMENT VIEWS

SHOW/ HIDE

ZOOM

WINDOW

MACROS

5 VIEWS IN MS- WORD 2007 Draft view Web layout Print layout Full screen reading layout Outline view

Draft View the most frequently used view, as it allows the user to edit the document quickly.

Web View enables the user to see their documents as it would appear on a web browser.

Print Layout let the user view their document as if it were on printed page.

Full Screen Reading Layout format the screen to let the user view/read their documents more comfortably

Outline View allow the documents to be displayed in outline form. this let the user display headings without text, and let you moves headings and the accompanying text with it