Microsoft Word has been around since the launch of Windows, and it is updated as often as Widows itself
The version I’m using to type this review guide is the 2007 edition, which was quite different to the old 98-word processor I had become accustomed to and as with many things it took time and effort and consent use to get used to
However, there are lot of useful new features, such as immediate look up of words when you are typing and unsure if a certain word is the right one, although you need to be connected to the internet in order to use this feature.
There is of course the spell and grammar check as with older versions, although the layout of Word also has undergone dramatic changes
Word has a tab system the first tab is Home
Home being where you choose fonts and their size, alignment – bold – italic and highlight
Page Layout
There is now an immediate preview of any changes to themes, giving you the opportunity of seeing how they would look without changing anything unless you want to
Also, where you can set margins – orientation –size and columns, also with layout there is a nice watermark feature such you want to mark is classified or confidential
Under this a somewhat strange feature where you can choose the colour of the page and again you get a preview and under this you can set the borders and over on the right indent and spacing settings
Moving onto mailing, where you can choose to do envelopes or labels and mail merge
For
spell and grammar checking – research and a translation feature this requires
internet connection
Although it should be noted that the grammar & spelling in Word is American
based and therefore sometimes disagrees with the English ideas of correct
grammar
View
Which allows previewing print layout or full screen for reading, also a web layout – Outline and draft and right up the far-right side is Macros which is used to automate repeating tasks
One word
of Warning if you use Microsoft word and copy your article to paste into a blog
or website, it has a nasty habit of including extra unseen characters which you
won’t see until you publish
So you will need to re-edit after you have posted any pasted article, not
certain this is still a problem, best to check any copy and pasted article or
post after publishing
Re-edit if needed
Since I wrote this article, Windows 8 was updated to Windows10 which was dramatically
different
The actual updating process of changing from one Windows operating
system to another, took more time than "a few minutes" as Microsoft
suggested
Updating to Windows 10 took all day and was still ongoing late at night
