Since ancient times, people have been using written documents for expressing themselves in a more permanent manner than possible. Written documents also used by man as a means of communication for long distance. As man has progressed, so has the need for more effective, quality documentation. Handwriting, printing process and typewriters are the three ways that are used by the people for getting the effective quality of documents.

• Efficient mode of Text editing.
•  Facility of Cut, Copy, Paste.                                                                                  
• Search and Replace Text.
• Justification, Indentation etc.
• Pagination is the process of separating a document's text into pages. The separations between pages are called page breaks.

Spell Checking:
Microsoft Word provides several ways to check spelling and grammar  :
• Automatically correct spelling and grammar.
• Automatically check spelling and grammar as you type.
• Check spelling and grammar all at once.
• Check the spelling and grammar of text in another language.

Importing/Exporting Text:
You can import data from a Word text file, such as a mail merge data source. You can insert Microsoft Access data into a new or existing Word document.

Mail Merging is the process of transferring selected information from one document to another document. You can use the Mail Merge Helper to create form letters, mailing labels, envelopes, or catalogs. The Mail Merge Helper guides you through organizing the address data, merging it into a generic document, and printing the resulting personalized documents. 

Introduction of MS-Office:

Business software integration has come into own with the release of Microsoft Office, which combines a new common look and a more polished interface - with a seamless exchange of information between the office applications. Thus, we can focus on our documents, rather than on the intricacies of the software that creates them.

Word:
In addition to using word for anything you'd use a word processor for, you can use it as the foundation for creating letters, memos, reports, and any other documents that will include or be included in documents from the other office applications.

Excel:
Use Excel to formulate and analyze numbers, manage and sort lists and create graphs, maps and pivot tables. The list and numbers can be created and stored in Excel or in an external source such as an Access Database.

PowerPoint:

Use Power Point to present your thoughts, ideas and plan to various audiences - for example, your board of directors, sales prospects, Multimedia, animation and links to your office data make Power Point ideal for timely information on powerful presentation.

Outlook:
Outlook is included with office to manage pertinent information about your contacts, facilitate the scheduling of your time; navigate your hard drive, and provide a universal inbox for all of your mail source.

Access:
Use Access to store track and reports information. You can also use Access to create databases that track membership list, client data, student registrations, inventory, tracking and customer invoicing.

Opening and saving your Office documents:
By using the improved File Open and File Save dialog boxes, you can gain access to more files at one time in every Office program. Use the Places Bar to go to the folders and locations you use the most. Click History to see the last 20 to 50 documents and folders that you have worked with. Then, click the Back button to easily return to previously opened files and folders.