Microsoft Word is a word processing application that is part of the Microsoft Office Suite. which is used to create and edit letters, articles, newsletters, flyers, and any other text-based document. Microsoft Office Suite is a set of powerful applications that are designed to provide a rich set of tools for almost every conceivable business task for a small (and large) business or organization.
Microsoft Word Extensions:
Early versions of Microsoft Word primarily created and used the .doc file extension, while newer versions of Word create and use the .docx file extension.
More recent versions of Microsoft Word can create and open the following types of files:
- .doc, .docm, .docx
- .dot, .dotm, .dotx
- .htm, .html
- .mht, .mhtml
- .odt
- .pdf
- .rtf
- .txt
- .wps
- .xps
- .xml
Importance of Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Word is an effective tool for creating all kinds of documents like letters, memos, reports, term papers, and typesetting novels and magazines, etc.
- Microsoft Word offers you specialized tools for formatting your document in various ways; perform spelling and grammar check to produce standard and error-free documents; in-built thesaurus for finding appropriate synonyms to replace repetitive words/phrases; word count feature for a statistical report of your document; drawing and graphics editing tools to add a touch of graphics or images to go with your documents; sounds and video handling tools to add multimedia feature to a document; numerous wizards and tools for creating and distributing merged faxes, form letters, labels and envelopes, etc.
- Microsoft Word is highly useful for creating text of large volume.
- You can easily create and maintain mailing lists, create personalized documents and create newsletters in Word.
- It also helps you send documents to a group of people for feedback.
- Word provides customized assistance in many ways.
- With Word, you can import files or objects from other programs and use them in your documents.
- Word also offers facilities for exporting documents to other packages, e.g. Lotus Notes, WordPerfect, etc.
