This document provides an introduction and overview of Microsoft Word. It discusses what Word is, common word processing software alternatives, and versions of Word. It then covers how to open and prepare a Word document, perform basic tasks like creating, saving, opening and closing files. It also discusses setting document properties like margins, paper size, line spacing, text alignment, fonts and inserting headers and footers. More advanced Word features like tables, tabs, headings, tables of contents, and headers and footers are briefly described.