Chapter 1 -- Gearing Up with Word 2002

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Chapter 1

Welcome to Word 2002—the fast-moving, streamlined, full-featured new edition of one of the world's most popular word processing programs. Are you looking for a way to create professional documents faster and better than ever? Word can help you with that. Would your life be easier if you had a program capable of a powerful but easy-to-use mail merge? Word's Mail Merge is now better than ever. Do you want a program that will help you leverage the data you create in other applications, enabling you to create something once and use it many times?

Word is the word processing program in the Microsoft Office suite, but it's much more than a simple word processor. Word can be an e-mail editor, Web page generator, long-document manager, newsletter publisher, and more. Word literally puts a world of possibilities at your fingertips and gives you the tools you need to package your information for print or Web use.