Word

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= Description =

A [|word processor] designed by [|Microsoft]. It was first released in 1983 under the name //Multi-Tool Word// for [|Xenix] systems.[|[1]][|[2]][|[3]] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including [|IBM PCs] running [|DOS] (1983), the [|Apple Macintosh] (1984), the AT&T [|Unix PC] (1985), [|Atari ST] (1986), [|SCO UNIX], [|OS/2], and [|Microsoft Windows] (1989). It is a component of the [|Microsoft Office] software system; it is also sold as a standalone product and included in [|Microsoft Works Suite]. The current versions are Microsoft Office Word 2010 for Windows and Microsoft Office Word 2011 for Mac. Microsoft Word is a robust word-processing program that can assist with projects ranging from the small office memo to a complex academic dissertation. The program comes standard with the Microsoft Office suite of home and small business products.

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=Uses for the technology =
 * ===Letters===

Microsoft Word enables you to create a range of correspondence from a simple office memo to mail-merged form letters with hundreds of addresses. Special programming in the software senses when you are typing a business letter and will pop up a guide to help format the letter correctly.
 * ===Desktop Publishing===

With a variety of format and layout commands, Microsoft Word can manipulate text around objects, add colors and borders with point-and-click ease and divide a page into multiple columns just like a desktop publishing program. Custom graphics can be imported to a document from external files or created with drawing tools inside Word.

Microsoft Word comes with pre-defined templates for dozens of adhesive label sizes or you can customize your own by entering the label measurements. A special label "wizard" walks you through creating a new sheet of labels and printing them on your printer.
 * **Labels**
 * ===Envelopes===

Envelopes can be created or Word can read a letter you have typed in the program, collect the address information and automatically create a matching envelope. An address bar code can be added to the envelope to assist with mailing.


 * **Templates**

Microsoft Word comes with a number of templates to help you design different documents such as resumes or invitations, but you also can create your own templates in Word if you there is a type of document you reuse often such as a letterhead, invoice or monthly report. = =

= Elementary commands =

**Bold:** CTRL + B **Center a paragraph:** CTRL + E **Copy:** CTRL + C **Create a hanging indent:** CTRL + T **Decrease the font size by 1 point:** CTRL + [ **Double-space lines:** CTRL + 2 **Hanging Indent:** CTRL + T **Help:** F1 **Increase the font size by 1 point:** CTRL + ] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Indent a paragraph from the left:** CTRL + M <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Indent:** CTRL + M <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Insert a footnote:** ALT + CTRL + F <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Insert an endnote:** ALT + CTRL + D <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Italic:** CTRL + I <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Justify a paragraph:** CTRL + J <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Left-align a paragraph:** CTRL + L <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Mark a table of contents entry:** ALT + SHIFT + O <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Mark an index entry:** ALT + SHIFT + X <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Page Break:** CTRL + ENTER <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Print:** CTRL + P <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Remove a paragraph indent from the left:** CTRL + SHIFT + M <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Remove paragraph formatting:** CTRL + Q <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Right-align a paragraph:** CTRL + R <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Save:** CTRL + S <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Select All:** CTRL + A <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Shrink Font One Point:** CTRL + [ <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Single-space lines:** CTRL + 1 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**To type a Subscript:** CTRL + = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**To type a Superscript:** CTRL + SHIFT + = <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Thesaurus:** SHIFT + F7 <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Remove Hanging Indent:** CTRL + SHIFT + T <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Remove Indent:** CTRL + SHIFT + M <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Underline:** CTRL + U <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; display: block; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">**Undo:** CTRL + Z

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= Quick Tips = Something to always keep in mind when using word is to make sure you are constantly saving your work should there be any complications (either internally in the computer or program, or human error) you will always have the most recent work you have completed saved and ready for editing.

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= External Links =

[|Microsoft Word] [|Microsoft.com]

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= Internal Links =

All of the Microsoft products blend together nicely in order to make work from one Office program transition easily to the next, more help can be found on the other Office programs at the below sites.

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