Source of Knowledge & Leadership

Lecturer :
Prof. Ahmed Abdalla
MBA
Mzumbe University, Tanzania

BBA
Hamar University

Mogadishu-Somalia
 Computer Application

Microsoft Word
 Microsoft word
What is Microsoft Word?

Microsoft Word, Winword or MS Word (often called Word) is a graphical word

processing program that users can type with.

It is made by the computer company Microsoft.

It is one of the office productivity applications included in the Microsoft Office

 suite.
History
1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, to develop a word-

processing application.  and later soon hired Richard Brodie, who became the primary

software engineer.[ The first version was released in 1983

Many of the ideas and features in Microsoft Word came from Bravo, the first graphical

 writing program. Microsoft bought the Bravo program, and changed its name to Microsoft

Word. When it first came out, it was not very popular, and did not sell as well as other

writing programs like WordPerfect. Although it was not very popular when it came out, it

had a feature called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which meant that people

can change the visual style of writing (e.g. bold, italics), by clicking on buttons, when in other

programs like WordPerfect, people had to add special 'codes' to change the style of

writing. WYSIWYG is now a common feature of all computer writing programs.

What is Its Purpose ?

Its purpose is to allow users to type and save documents such as:

letter
report or paper
proposal
newsletter 
brochure
catalog 
poster
flyer
postcard
sign 
banner 
resume
business card
invoice
receipt
product packaging
mailing label
 Frequently used shortcuts in Microsoft Word
To do this Press

Open a document. Ctrl+O

Create a new document. Ctrl+N

Save the document. Ctrl+S

Close the document. Ctrl+W

Cut the selected content to the Clipboard. Ctrl+X

Copy the selected content to the Ctrl+C

Clipboard.

Paste the contents of the Clipboard. Ctrl+V

Select all document content. Ctrl+A

Apply bold formatting to text. Ctrl+B
Apply italic formatting to text. Ctrl+I
Apply underline formatting to text. Ctrl+U

Decrease the font size by 1 point. Ctrl+[

Increase the font size by 1 point. Ctrl+]

Center the text. Ctrl+E
Align the text to the left. Ctrl+L
Align the text to the right. Ctrl+R
Cancel a command. Esc
Undo the previous action. Ctrl+Z
Redo the previous action, if possible. Ctrl+Y

Adjust the zoom magnification. Alt+W, Q, then tab in Zoom dialog box to
the value you want.
Split the document window. Ctrl+Alt+S
Remove the document window split. Alt+Shift+C or Ctrl+Alt+S
NB:

Close a task pane

To close a task pane using the keyboard:

Press F6 until the task pane is selected.

Press Ctrl+Spacebar.

Use the arrow keys to select Close, and then press Enter.

Ribbon keyboard shortcuts

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