MICROSOFT Word

DEFINATION OF MS-WORD
A full-featured word processing program for Windows and the Macintosh from Microsoft. Included in the Microsoft application suite, it is a sophisticated program with rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities that has become the most widely used word processing application on the market. The first versions of Word came out under DOS and provided both graphics-based and textbased interfaces for working with a document.

USE OF MICROSOFT Word :-

Word processors have a variety of uses and

applications within the business world, home, and education.

Business Within the business world, Microsoft word is

extremely useful tool. Typical uses include: memos letters and letterhead legal copies reference documents

Education

Many schools have begun to teach typing and word

processing to their students, starting as early as elementary school. Typically these skills are developed throughout secondary school in preparation for the business world. Undergraduate students typically spend many hours writing essays. Graduate and doctoral students continue this trend, as well as creating works for research and publication. These manuscripts are often in excess of 200 pages, and are typically the defining point of a student's career.

Home

While many homes have word processors on their

computers, word processing in the home tends to be educational or business related, dealing with assignments or work being completed at home. Some use word processors for letter writing, rsum creation, and card creation.

What are the advantages of Microsoft Word :

Microsoft Word is the word processing component of

the Microsoft Office Suite, and is one of the most extensively used computer applications. Its advantages include: -

It allows easy and near-instant textual input.

There is a large variety of formatting options,
including a variety of colour choices, the ability to change font-weight (bold/regular), underlining, etc. Images can be 'drag-and-dropped' into the application, inserted manually, or imported from the word-art galleries.

 Lists can be easily created and formatted. Content is displayed using the standard HTML
formatting, allowing great compatability and creating a standardised, easy-to-control layout. Compatible with a large number of standard document formats. Extensive help documentation. Self-explanitory dialogue boxes and menu options. increased office efficiency improved human resource utilization

The Disadvantages of Microsoft Word Software

Problematic Web Publishing : Microsoft Word has the capability to be used as a web

publishing program. However, there are significant drawbacks to using Word as opposed to a program designed for the job, such as Macromedia Dreamweaver. Microsoft Word produces bloated code, with some code only supported by Internet Explorer browsers. There is no provision for alternate text for users who block images or for users with limited visibility. Image files for Microsoft Word are assigned generic names and may be duplicated on the web page.

 Lack of Backward Compatibility With the release of Microsoft Office Suite 2007,
including Microsoft Word 2007, users of older versions of the software found themselves unable to open, let alone edit, documents received in the later version. The default extension for Microsoft Word 2007 documents is .docx; the default extension for documents in earlier versions of Microsoft Word is .doc. An extra step is necessary to save a version of Microsoft Word 2007 documents in a format compatible with older versions of word. Also, users of the newer version of the software sometimes encounter formatting problems in opening documents created in older versions of Word.

 No Reveal Codes The feature that WordPerfect users value more than
nearly any other is the Reveal Codes function. This function allows users to access the exact coding for each character of a WordPerfect document, similar to the code view function with web content software. This allows for much easier editing, especially when troublesome functioning is involved. With Microsoft Word it is sometimes impossible to determine the exact source of coding problems, let alone eliminate them.