What Can You Do with Word?

Perhaps an easier question to answer would be, What can t you do with Word? If your project has anything to do with words ”typing them, arranging them, enhancing them, or checking them ”Word can take care of it. Here are just a few of the tasks you can accomplish with Word:

• Compose the monthly sales letter to your field reps and pass it around to others for approval before you send it.

• Pull together a team to collaboratively produce your company s annual report and house all important files in a shared site online.

• Create the weekly lesson plan for your classroom.

• Write, edit, and publish an entire book.

• Compile your research on the behavior of army ants .

• Design Web pages and post them on the Internet.

• Publish a multicolumn newsletter.

• Create, print, and send a mass e-mail campaign.

Individuals use Word for projects at work, school, and home. Companies use Word for just about everything imaginable. Word is used on stand-alone and networked systems alike; it s a standard format for files sent hither and yon all over the Internet, worldwide. If you want to use a simple-but-powerful word-processing program that is compatible with the majority of programs on the globe, you re in the right place.

Aha! ”Word Your Way

Don t like the way the toolbars are arranged? You can move them around on-screen any place  you like. The toolbars are dockable , which means that you can remove them from their current place beneath the menu bar and put them someplace else. To do this, click the small column of horizontal lines at the left end of the toolbar and drag toward the center of the work area to release it; then place the toolbar wherever you want. You might want to put the toolbar along the right edge or just leave it, palette- style, in your document window. You can resize the toolbar by dragging an end of the toolbar toward its center.