Microsoft Office was first announced in 1988 and included Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. It is commonly used for office tasks like documentation, worksheets, presentations, and databases. The main Microsoft Office packages include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Publisher, and Access. Word allows typing documents and includes formatting tools, graphics, and spelling/grammar checkers.
3. It was first announced by Bill Gates on
August 1, 1988, at COMDEX in Las Vegas.
Initially a marketing term for an office suite
(bundled set of productivity applications),
the first version of Office contained Microsoft
Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft
PowerPoint.
4. MS office is most common form of software
used for special purpose office work such as:
Documentation
Worksheet
Presentation
Database
What is Microsoft Office
5. MS Office has following packages:
MS WORD MS EXCEL MS POWERPOINT OUTLOOK
PUBLISHER ACCESS
7. Microsoft Word is a word processing software package.
You can use it to type letters, reports and other documents.
Graphics
WordtArt
The four main operations of word processing package are:
Defining the form of document.
Entering a document from a keyboard
Editing (modifying) the document
Printing the document
WHAT IS MS-WORD?
8. Components of MS WORD
Title bar
Menu bar
Standard toolbar
Formatting toolbar
Rulers
Scroll bar
Working area
10. The process of changing the appearance of
document is called formatting. You can format single
character, word, lines paragraph or whole document.
The document is formatted to make it more
attractive and beautiful.
The commands used to format the document are
selected from Home tab.
FORMATTING WORD DOCUMENT
12. SAVE AS:
The save as option will provide you with the most common files
formats to save your document.
PRINT:
Here you can choose print quick print and print preview.
The home tab:
You will find 5 sections Clipboard, Font, Paragraph, styles and
Editing.
MS-WORD BASICS
13. CLIPBOARD: The clipboard allow you to cut, copy, paste and copy
formatting from one place to another.
Font: The font section of ribbon provides a section to handle the basic
text formatting. Items such as bold, underline, strikethrough, highlight
and font type can be changed here.
MS-WORD BASICS
14. Paragraph: The paragraph section provides icons for bullets, lists,
justify, line spacing, indents and borders.
Styles: The style section allows you to quickly change the formatting
of a section of text by choosing one of the predefined styles.
MS-WORD BASICS
15. EDITING:
The Editing section of the toolbar allow you to find, replace and select
items.
Insert Tab: Insert tab has seven sections: pages, tables, illustrations, links,
header and footer, text and symbols.
MS-WORD BASICS