Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a commercial word processor which was designed by Microsoft.  Microsoft Word was first launched in the year 1983 under the name called as Multi-Tool Word for the Xenix systems. After its success several other versions were relased for many platforms such as

the Apple Macintosh (1984), IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Atari ST (1986), the AT&T Unix PC (1985), SCO UNIX, Microsoft Windows (1989) and OS/2.

It is a part of the Microsoft Office system; Microsoft Word is also sold as the standalone product and incorporated in the Microsoft Works Suite. The present versions are MS Word 2010 for the Windows and MS Word 2011 for the Mac. Microsoft Word, popular word processing software, is part of a suite of application programs developed by Microsoft called MS Office. This software package works under windows environment i.e. Windows 98/2000/XP. Microsoft Word is a word processing software program which could be used in order to create several kinds of documents from memos and letters to lists and calendars. Documents can be saved, edited and created at the want of the user from the blank document or through one of the several Wizards incorporated with the Microsoft Word.

MS-Word has an edge over other word processing packages because of the following features:

• Documents can be created, edited and saved.
• The whole text or a part of the text can be formatted and printed.
• The characters can be underlined, italicized or made bold to add different styles. Same way different colors can be given to the text.
• Create and print labels or envelopes on your printer.
• Create a table to enter data in form of rows and columns.
• Different drawings, pictures and charts can be incorporated to enhance the creativity of presentation.
• Create newspaper style document.
• Spellcheck for spelling mistakes, thesaurus and grammer for grammatical mistakes makes your document error free.
• Letters can be given different addresses at a time with mail-merge facilities.
• Templates and Macros are helpful for designing and typing.
• Documents can be published in the Web

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