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MS Word
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MS Word, Winword, or Word, Microsoft Word is a word processor published by Microsoft.
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It allows you to create professional-quality documents, reports, letters, and resumes.
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Unlike plain text editor, Microsoft Word has features including:

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Spell check
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Grammar check
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Text and form formatting
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HTML support
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Image support
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Advanced page layout
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and more
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What does the Word editor look like?

Rulers
Document header
Document area
Tab
Ribbon
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.doc
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.docx
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.docm
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.pdf
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.txt
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.xml
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.html
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and more
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More recent versions of Microsoft Word can create and open the following types of files:
Paragraph Alignment
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Paragraph alignment determines how the lines in a paragraph more appear in relation to the left and right margins.
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The margin is the blank space between the edge of the paper and where the text.
Left align
Right align
Ctrl + L
Ctrl + R
All lines in the paragraph butt up against the left text margin.
​​All lines in the paragraph butt up against the right text margin.
Center align
Ctrl + E
All lines in the paragraph are centered between the left and right text margins.
Justify
Ctrl + J
All lines in the paragraph are expanded so they butt up against both the left and right text margins.
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The easiest way to change paragraph alignment is to use the alignment buttons on the Formatting toolbar.
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For existing paragraph to align, select the paragraph and choose a button from the toolbar.

Line and Paragraph Spacing:
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Line space is the amount of vertical space between lines of text in a paragraph.
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Paragraph space is the amount of space above or below a paragraph. Instead of pressing Enter multiple times to increase space between paragraphs, you can set a specific amount of space before or after paragraphs.

Line Spacing
Paragraph Spacing

Change Line Spacing Here
Indentation:
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In word processing, the word indent is used to describe the distance or number of blank spaces used to separate a paragraph from the left or right margins.
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An indent increases the distance between the side of a paragraph and the left or right margin, Indented paragraphs appear to have different margin settings.
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Word provides a variety of indents to emphasize paragraphs in a document.

First line indent
A paragraph that has all lines but the first indented.

Hanging indent
specifying a negative indentation for the first line of each paragraph.

Left Indent
Right Indent
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Select the text where you want to add the first line indent.
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Click Home and then, in the Paragraph group, click the dialog box launcher to open the Paragraph dialog box.
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On the Indents and Spacing tab, under Indentation, select the First line.

Typefaces
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A typeface is the collective name of a family of related fonts (such as Times New Roman).
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Typefaces for languages that use different scripts than Latin (Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Devanagari etc.) are referred to as typefaces rather than fonts.

You can select typefaces from this drop-down button.
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Typefaces often come as a family of typefaces, with individual typefaces there are 4 font style:
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Regular
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Italic
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Bold
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Bold Italic

You can change Typeface, Font style, Font size here.

Bold
Ctrl+B
Italic
Ctrl+I
Regular
Bold & Italic
Multiple Columns
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A table is a structure of vertical columns and horizontal rows with a cell at every intersection.
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A Word table can contain as many as 63 columns but the number of rows is unlimited.
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Click Layout
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Click Columns
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Click a number of columns

Select a column
To customize.
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You can customize, set you value for the given page.
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Check the box next to "Line between" to draw a divider. Doing so will place a visible line between your columns.
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Click OK to apply your style.

Page Margins
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A margin is a space between the text and the edge of your document.
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By default, a new document's margins are set to Normal, which means it has a one-inch space between the text and each edge.
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Depending on your needs, Word allows you to change your document's margin size.
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To format page margins:
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Select the Page Layout tab, then click the Margins command.
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A drop-down menu will appear. Click the predefined margin size you want.
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The margins of the document will change.

Select any margin
To customize
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To use custom margins:
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From the Page Layout tab, click Margins. Select Custom Margins... from the drop-down menu.
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The Page Setup dialog box will appear.
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Adjust the values for each margin, then click OK.
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The margins of the document will be changed.

Adjust the values for margin.
Short Keys
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Below is a listing of the more commonly used shortcut keys in Microsoft Word.
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