Ms word (during first year )
Microsoft Word (simply referred to as Word) is a sophisticated word processing application program/package specially designed for performing various word processing tasks, such as typing, editing and printing out of textual information. It allows adequate control over the creation and presentation of the typographic work. Microsoft Word also offers facilities for basic graphic design, statistical report of a document, spelling and grammar checking tasks, etc. These and numerous other features and facilities Word offers make it stand out among word processing programs, as well as make the difference between it and other mechanical devices for word processing (e.g. typewriter).
Importance of Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Word is an effective tool for creating all kinds of documents like letters, memos, reports, term papers, and typesetting novels and magazines, etc.
- Microsoft Word offers you specialized tools for formatting your document in various ways; perform spelling and grammar check to produce standard and error-free documents; in-built thesaurus for finding appropriate synonyms to replace repetitive words/phrases; word count feature for a statistical report of your document; drawing and graphics editing tools to add a touch of graphics or images to go with your documents; sounds and video handling tools to add multimedia feature to a document; numerous wizards and tools for creating and distributing merged faxes, form letters, labels and envelopes, etc.
- Microsoft Word is highly useful for creating text of large volume.
- You can easily create and maintain mailing lists, create personalized documents and create newsletters in Word.
- It also helps you send documents to a group of people for feedback.
- Word provides customized assistance in many ways.
- With Word, you can import files or objects from other programs and use them in your documents.
- Word also offers facilities for exporting documents to other packages, e.g. Lotus Notes, WordPerfect, etc.
Go to File>New to view the list of available templates. Here, you have the option of using one of the templates that come with the program or downloading one from Microsoft.com. We are going to download a template so you can see the large variety of brochure templates available online. Click on the “Templates on Office Online”option right under Templates on the right hand side of your screen.
How to insert clipparts in ms word.
Go to Insert>Picture>Clip Art and do a search for “school” to find more art work related to school. We’ll insert three to fill out the white space. Select the second clipart on the right column, and select the second, third, and fourth clipart from the left column. Remember to select one at a time. Each will appear on the brochure. Click on each of them and drag them to the desired location within the brochure. If you cannot drag them after selecting, you may have to format its layout, so just select the clipart and right click, then go to format picture and a format picture pop up menu will appear, click on the layout tab and select the option “in front of text” as this will allow you to resize it and move it wherever you may desire even place it in front the text. In the image below, you will see where I placed those four pieces of art work.
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