Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word (often called Word) is a graphical word processing program that users can type with. Microsoft Word is a widely used commercial word processor designed by Microsoft. Microsoft Word is a component of the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software but can also be purchased as a stand-alone product. Microsoft Word allow users to type and save documents. Similar to other word processors, Microsoft Word has helpful tools to make documents such as spelling & grammar checker, word count, speech recognition, insert pictures in documents, choice of typefaces, special codes, etc.

Microsoft Word offers several features to ease document creation and editing, including:

• WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) display: It ensures that everything displayed on screen appears the same way when printed or moved to another format or program.
• Spell check: Word features a built-in dictionary for spell checking and misspelled words are marked with a red squiggly underline. Sometimes, Word auto-corrects an obviously misspelled word or phrase.

 

• Text-level features such as bold, underline, italic and strike-through.

• Page-level features such as indentation, paragraphing and justification.
• External support: Word is compatible with many other programs, the most common being the other members of the Office suite.

So why should you consider using Microsoft Word for your teaching and learning? There are many benefits of Microsoft Word in teaching and learning which are:

      1. Saves time. Help teachers or lecturers use preparation time more efficiently by letting them modify materials instead of creating new ones.

    2. Allows collaboration of documents. Teachers and students can create, edit and share documents through the Google Docs.

    3. Flexible. Can save multiple versions of documents and easily sort them so that you can go back to previous versions of the same document

You want to use the Microsoft Word? But you don't know how to start it? It's okay. I can help you. 

So, here I provide step-by-step instructions that will help you to start a document in Microsoft Word.

Step 1: Open Microsoft Word from your desktop or ‘Start’ menu.

  

Step 2: Microsoft Word will open up and present you with an option to select a document template, or a blank document. And if you don’t want to use any of the templates on display, just click on the blank document.

  

Step 3: A new blank document will open and ready for you to start typing.

So, hope you enjoy using the Microsoft Word. Good Luck ! :D