FEATURES OFMICROSOFT WORD

MICROSOFT WORD IS A WORD PROCESSOR DESIGNED BY MICROSOFT. IT WAS FIRST

RELEASED IN 1983 UNDER THE NAME MULTI-TOOL WORD FOR XENIX SYSTEMS.

1. NORMAL.DOT
NORMAL.DOT IS THE MASTER TEMPLATE FROM WHICH ALL WORD DOCUMENTS ARE
CREATED. IT IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FILES IN MICROSOFT WORD. IT
DETERMINES THE MARGIN DEFAULTS AS WELL AS THE LAYOUT OF THE TEXT AND
FONT DEFAULTS. ALTHOUGH NORMAL.DOT IS ALREADY SET WITH CERTAIN
DEFAULTS, THE USER CAN CHANGE NORMAL.DOT TO NEW PARAMETERS.

2. WORDART
WORDART ENABLES DRAWING TEXT IN A MICROSOFT WORD DOCUMENT SUCH AS A TITLE,
WATERMARK, OR OTHER TEXT, WITH GRAPHICAL EFFECTS SUCH AS SKEWING,
SHADOWING, ROTATING, STRETCHING IN A VARIETY OF SHAPES AND COLORS AND
EVEN INCLUDING THREE-DIMENSIONAL EFFECTS.

3. MACRO
WORD FILES CAN INCLUDE ADVANCED MACROS AND EVEN EMBEDDED PROGRAMS. THE
LANGUAGE WAS ORIGINALLY WORDBASIC, BUT CHANGED TO VISUAL BASIC FOR
APPLICATIONS AS OF WORD 97. A PROMINENT EXAMPLE WAS THE MELISSA
WORM, BUT COUNTLESS OTHERS HAVE EXISTED IN THE WILD. NEARLY ALL ANTI-
VIRUS SOFTWARE CAN DETECT AND CLEAN COMMON MACRO VIRUSES.

4. LAYOUT ISSUES
THE PROGRAM WAS UNABLE TO HANDLE LIGATURES DEFINED IN TRUETYPE FONTS THOSE
LIGATURE GLYPHS WITH UNICODE CODEPOINTS MAY BE INSERTED MANUALLY, BUT
ARE NOT RECOGNIZED BY WORD FOR WHAT THEY ARE, BREAKING SPELLCHECKING,
WHILE CUSTOM LIGATURES PRESENT IN THE FONT ARE NOT ACCESSIBLE AT ALL.

5. BULLETS AND NUMBERING

Word has extensive list bullets and numbering feature used for tables, list,
pages, chapters, headers, footnotes, and tables of content. Bullets and
numbering can be applied directly or using a button or by applying a style
or through use of a template. HOWEVER, THE BULLETS AND NUMBERING SYSTEM HAS
BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY OVERHAULED FOR OFFICE 2007, WHICH IS INTENDED TO REDUCE THE

SEVERITY OF THESE PROBLEMS.

CREATING TABLES
Users can also create tables in MS Word. Depending on the version, Word
can perform simple calculations. Formulas are supported as well .

6. USING FORMULAS
As mentioned in Creating Tables, MS Word supports the use of formulas.
To access Word's formula function in Word 2007, click anywhere in a
table, then choose Table Tools>>Layout. To access Word's formula
function in Word 2003, select Table>>Formula. The formula function is on
the ribbon in the Data section. Click on the Formula icon to open the
Formula Dialog box. At the top of the Formula box is a place to enter a
formula. Formulas use a similar convention as that used in Excel. Cell
references use the "A1" reference style. Formulas are written using cell
references (for example =A1+A2).

7. AUTOSUMMARIZE
AutoSummarize highlights passages or phrases that it considers valuable.
The amount of text to be retained can be specified by the user as a
percentage of the current amount of text. FIRST, AUTOSUMMARIZE IDENTIFIES THE
MOST COMMON WORDS IN THE DOCUMENT (BARRING "A" AND "THE" AND THE LIKE) AND

ASSIGNS A "SCORE" TO EACH WORD—THE MORE FREQUENTLY A WORD IS USED, THE HIGHER

THE SCORE.

8. AUTOCORRECT
In Microsoft Office 2003, AutoCorrect items added by the user stop
working when text from sources outside the document is pasted in.

9. SUBSCRIPT AND SUPERSCRIPT ISSUES

In any of the Microsoft word packages, it is impossible to display
superscript exactly lying above subscript. It can only be done using the
equation editor.
10. IMPROVED SPELL CHECKS

Word 2010 has added some new features to its spell checker,
now it will detect the mistake and suggest changing the
sentence.

11. THE BACKGROUND REMOVAL OPTION

Removal, which simply removes the background of any image.

Yes, you don’t need Photoshop anymore to remove the
background. First insert the picture in Office 2010 has an
awesome option by the name of Background your Word
document from the INSERT > PICTURE option. Then locate
the BACKGROUND REMOVAL TOOL and get rid of the background. You can
read about this feature in more details

12. FIND AND REPLACE

The find command. This if you need to find a particular word or phrase in
your document, you can use command is especially useful when you are
working with large files. If you want to search the entire document, simply
execute the Find command. If you want to limit your search to a selected
area, select that area and then execute the Find command.

13. CHANGE THE FONT SIZE

A font is a set of characters (text) represented in a single
typeface. Each character within a font is created by using the
same basic style. In Microsoft Word, you can change the size of
your font. The following exercise illustrates changing the font
size.

14. BUILT IN SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL

A REALLY HANDY ADDITION & AT THE SAME TIME A BEAUTIFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
SAME. WORD & POWERPOINT BOTH HAVE THE ‘SCREENSHOT’ FEATURE UNDER ‘INSERT’
& THE USEFUL PART IS THAT IT CACHES SCREEN SHOTS OF THE CURRENTLY OPEN
WINDOWS FOR ONE-CLICK INSERT.
15. BACKGROUND REMOVAL TOOL

HIS IS ONE TOOL WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL FIND HANDY AND IT WILL DEFINITELY
HAVE WIDE APPLICATION.BELOW THERE ARE TWO IMAGES WHICH REPRESENT THE POWER
OF THE TOOL. ONE IMAGE SHOWS WITH BACKGROUND AND THE OTHER AFTER USING THE
BACKGROUND REMOVAL TOOL.

16. OUTLOOK IMPROVEMENTS

OUTLOOK 2010 ALSO MAKES IT EASIER TO MANAGE CONVERSATIONS. WHEN YOU
VIEW MESSAGES IN CONVERSATION VIEW, YOU CAN RIGHT-CLICK A CONVERSATION TITLE
AND SELECT FROM A NUMBER OF ACTIONS THAT YOU CAN PERFORM, AS SHOWN IN FIGURE
BELOW. IF YOU SELECT CLEAN UP CONVERSATION, REDUNDANT MESSAGES IN THE
CONVERSATION WILL BE DELETED.

17. PRINTING HAS BECOME EASY

Printing has been significantly improved in Office 2010. The new

print menu in will allow you to change the print settings as well
as see the print preview in the same window.
 Printing has been significantly improved in Office 2010. The
new print menu in will allow you to change the print settings as
well as see the print preview in the same window.

18. SCREEN CAPTURE

WORD 2010 ALSO COMES WITH A SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL TO TAKE SCREEN SHOT OF
ANY IMPORTANT PART OF DOCUMENT. THIS BASIC SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL IS NOT
REPLACEMENT FOR MORE ADVANCED SCREEN CAPTURE SOFTWARE, LIKE SNAGIT, BUT IT’S
VERY USEFUL AND HANDY IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR ONLY BASIC SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL.
IT IS ESPECIALLY HANDY IF YOU ARE WRITING A SHORT TUTORIAL FOR COWORKERS OR TO
HELP A FRIEND OR FAMILY MEMBER REMEMBER HOW TO DO SOMETHING.

19. NAVIGATION PANE

ANOTHER NEW FEATURE ON WORD 2010 IS THE NAVIGATION PANE. THIS REPLACES
THE “FIND” WINDOW WHICH USED TO APPEAR WHEN YOU USED “CTRL +F”. WITH
THE NAVIGATION PANE, YOUR SEARCH WILL WORK MUCH FASTER AND ALLOW YOU TO SEE
HEADING VIEW, THUMBNAIL PAGE VIEW AND THE SEARCH RESULT. AN EXAMPLE OF THE
NAVIGATION PANE IS SHOWN BELOW.
20. COLLABORATION

COLLABORATION, OR CO-AUTHORING, IS ONE OF MOST EXCITING NEW FEATURES IN

WORD 2010. CO-AUTHORING ALLOWS MORE THAN ONE PERSON TO EDIT A DOCUMENT
AT SAME TIME. WORD 2010 WILL NOT ONLY ALLOW USERS TO EDIT THE DOCUMENT AT
SAME TIME BUT WILL ALSO LET YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE EDITING IT AND SHARE
CHANGES. AS SOON AS YOU OPEN A SHARED DOCUMENT THE WORD STATUS BAR WILL
LET YOU KNOW THAT IF IT’S BEING EDITED BY SOMEONE ELSE AND YOU CAN BEGIN CO-
AUTHORING.