Microsoft Word Home Menu Features and its Uses

 

 Microsoft Word Home Menu Features and its Uses

Microsoft word home menu contains all the basic standard formatting options such as font settings, paragraphs, styles, and editing. The home menu is very important to practice for MS Word processor students.

• Clipboard: – In Microsoft Word Home Menu Clipboard is the first category menu that is used to store copied material temporarily.  Such as text and pictures or any object in Microsoft Word. The uses of the clipboard function are that users can copy, replace, and place the text from one section to another section of the page. Also, the uses can be extended to this function such as copied texts remaining saved temporarily until not deleted.  You can see your copied text and image in Clipboard when you click on the bottom right corner (little arrow sign-in box). And if you want to Copy then use CTRL+C and for paste use CTRL+V’

 

• Font: – In which the user can set the font style according to the nature of the document. For example, if someone is writing an application or resume then the font can be Calibri or any professional font. If anyone is writing a fancy paragraph or poem then the font can be Freestyle Script. You can also type in Hindi, and Punjabi in Microsoft Word by downloading Hindi or Punjabi fonts and then installing those fonts. Such as AGRA, Kruti Deve, Kundli, etc. Hindi fonts are common in use. MS word provides more advantages for users other than any word processor. In MS word, home menu users can set and change font sizes easily. They can fill the color background behind the text, and users can set text transformation to uppercase, lowercase and in Title case, etc. any line can be underlined and italic based on the document style. If you want to use all font options from one place then press Ctrl+Shift+F on the keyboard. This is a shortcut key to open Font options.

 

• Paragraph: – The paragraph sub-menu is another great feature in MS-word that can be used to align paragraphs, and highlight features and important points by using bullets and numbers. MS Word users can also set the line spacing to improve the readability of the document.

 

• Style: – If users don’t know anything about the font, or paragraph formatting then they can use the style category menu under the home menu. In which any text can be highlighted according to the predefined style. E.g. heading size, subheading size, etc. confusion can be easily solved in the styles category. Such as if you’re using various headings in your essay or document but don’t know how to set the font size, then you don’t need to worry, just select the text you want to make a heading and then click on Heading 1. In the styles category, there are 6 types of heading such as Heading1, Heading 2, Heading 3, Heading 4, Heading 5, and Heading 6. Such options are very useful in education or educational material. Books and study materials can be designed professionally by using these options in Microsoft Word.

 

• Change styles: – Users can set any style for their document in Microsoft Word. This is another very useful option in which document style can be edited or created according to the reader of the document. In the change style menu, you can set your document style to distinctive, elegant, fancy, formal, modern, newsprint, perspective, modern, simple and traditional, etc. Also, you can set paragraph spacing to tight, compact, relaxed, etc. based on the user’s demand or according to the reader’s point of view.

 

• Editing: – Another use of the home menu in Microsoft word by using the Editing Category Menu. The user can find any word or line in between documents. They only need to press F5 or Ctrl+F and then they can find and replace any text in the document. They can select, and replace any object in the document. They can visit any page or section in the document by pressing Ctrl+G from the keyboard then they can put the page number and click on Go To. These wonderful features are not available in one place in such an easy style in other word-processing applications.

 

Such technical users of the Microsoft word Home menu are very beneficial for all kinds of users such as students to create assignments and notes. Teachers can use these options to highlight the main topic of the document. A business professional can use these options to create professional-looking letters. E-book writers can design their books according to this. Bloggers can write their posts amazingly with the use of these options.