Microsoft Word

By: Joshua Puda and Jeffrey

Quimbo
 WHAT IS MICROSOFT WORD?

Sometimes called Winword, MS Word,

or Word, Microsoft Word is a word
processor published by Microsoft. It is one
of the office productivity applications
included in Microsoft Office. Originally
developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard
Brodie, it was first released in 1983.

Microsoft Word is available for the Microsoft

Windows, Apple macOS, Android, and Apple
iOS. It could also be run on
the Linux operating system using WINE.
WHO IS THE DEVELOPER OF MICROSOFT WORD?
 Microsoft Word was developed By:

Richard Reeves Brod

Born November 10, 1959 is an
American computer
programmer and author. He
was the original creator of
Microsoft Word. After leaving
Microsoft, Brodie became a
motivational speaker and
authored two bestselling books.
 Microsoft Word was developed By:
Charles Simonyi
Born September 10, 1948) is a
Hungarian-born American software
architect. His father, Károly Simonyi,
a Kossuth Prize winner Hungarian
physicist, creator of the first
Hungarian nuclear particle
accelerator. He started and led
Microsoft's applications group,
where he built the first versions of
Microsoft Office suite of
applications. He founded and led
Intentional Software (acquired by
Microsoft in 2017), with the aim of
developing and marketing his
concept of intentional programming.
In April 2007, aboard Soyuz TMA-10,
he became the fifth space tourist
and the second Hungarian in space.
In March 2009, aboard Soyuz TMA-
14, he made a second trip to the
International Space Station. His
WHAT ARE THE USES OF
MICROSOFT WORD?
WHAT ARE THE USES OF MICROSOFT WORD?

• MICROSOFT WORD is a word processor and like other word

processors it's capable of helping the user create a variety of
different types of documents. We've included our full list of the
top uses of a word processor on our word processor page.

WORD PROCESSOR Sometimes abbreviated as WP, a word

processor is a software program capable of creating, storing,
and printing typed documents. Today, the word processor is
one of the most frequently used software programs on a
computer, with Microsoft Word being the most popular word
processor. Word processors can be used to create multiple
types of files, including text files (.txt), rich text files (.rtf), HTML
files (.htm & .html), and Word files (.doc & .docx). Some word
 ADD VISUALS WITH PICTURES FROM THE WEB

Word works with Bing to give you

access to thousands of pictures you
can use in your documents.
Try it: Hit enter after this line to make
a blank line:
1. With your cursor in the blank
space above, go to the Insert tab,
select Online Pictures, and then
search for something, like puppy clip
art.
2. Select the picture you want, and
select Insert. Word works with Bing to
 MAKE YOUR MEANING MORE
VISUAL BY FORMATTING TEXT
To format text, select Bold (keyboard shortcut:
Ctrl+B) Bold (keyboard
it, and then select a shortcut: Ctrl+B)
button in the Font or Italic (keyboard
Paragraph area on shortcut: Ctrl+I)
the Home tab. Highlight
Try it: Select text in
Font color
the lines below and
choose formatting Bullets
options so that the
text is an example of Numbering
the formatting it’s
describing:
 GIVE YOUR DOC AN ISTANT MAKEOEVER

Style sets and themes let you

completely change the look of
your document in an instant.
They work best when your
document is formatted with styles
(so it’s good that we fixed that
Heading style, above).
Try it: Explore style sets and
themes:
1. On the Design tab, select
Themes, and choose a theme
from the drop-down.
Notice that the gallery of style
 GET HELP WITH WORD
AND Inserting table
The Tell me search box takes For a basic table, click Insert > Table
you straight to commands and and move the cursor over the grid
Help in Word. until you highlight the number of
Try it: Get help: Press F1 columns and rows you want.
SAVE THIS FOR LATER, ACCESS IT ANYWHERE

When you save this document in

OneDrive, you’ll be able to open it
anywhere: on your computer,
tablet, or phone. Your changes
will be saved automatically. Try
it: Select File > Save As, and then
select OneDrive and give this
document a name. If you sign in
to Office 365 on another device,
this document will be in your list
of recent files. You can pick up
where you left off… even if you