What is Microsoft Word?
Microsoft Word allows you to create professional-quality documents, reports, letters, and résumés. Unlike a plain text editor, Microsoft Word has features including spell check, grammar check, text and font formatting, HTML support, image support, advanced page layout, and more.
Microsoft Word is the industry-standard word processing program used on most computers. With Word, you can create documents and complete a number of other functions related to word processing. This program carries with it several advantages that you can benefit from.
Difference between Microsoft Word and Rich Text Editiors
A rich-text editor offers many of the same basic features as Microsoft Word. Where Microsoft Word differs is the ability to do more advanced features. Some of the advanced features include mail , merges, spellchecker, styles, tables, headers & footers, WordArt, columns, margins, and more.
Microsoft Word Benefits
- Availability
- practically everywhere.
- Word comes standard on many PCs.
- Easy to save documents on a flash drive, take them with you and work on them somewhere else.
- If you need to do some work, you can usually find a computer with Word on it.
- Integration With Office Programs
- Easily integrates with other Microsoft Office programs.
- Possible to complete a wide array of computing tasks without having to spend time converting documents or files so that they are usable on other programs.
- Instant Help
- Word helps you make sure that it is the best it can be.
- Underline misspell a word and poor grammar.
- Word suggested spellings.
- Navigation Pane
- Easy-to-use navigation pane at the top.
- Visual representations of many of the functions that you might need.
- Document Flexibility
- Create simple word-processing documents like letters and reports.
- You can add color, use clip art, write in a variety of fonts and sizes, and use tables, borders and bullet formatting.
- Offers templates to help create numerous other documents, such as calendars and greeting cards.
- You can also save documents in a variety of formats, including a Web page.
