¶ … processing with the software program Microsoft Word 2000 for granted now a days. But no matter how good someone thinks they are with Word 2000 there are always new tricks or skills to learn. Most people have no idea how much Word 2000 actually does. The majority of users take for granted that spell check occurs automatically when we spell 'wrng' instead of 'wrong.' But this is just one feature -- there are many more. This report focuses on five new things that I have learned about Microsoft Word 2000 that I think are fresh insights into just how good Bill Gates' team has done. Microsoft has made some serious changes in Word 2000. Because so many people use Microsoft Word 2000 the product has literally changed the way the world does word processing. Both the Internet and the business world have become very dependent on the entire Microsoft Office software programs. Word 2000 for example has become a favorite HTML and email editor and a web page design program. Microsoft Word 2000 has so many tools that an average kid like me can look and act like an entire corporation because I can create professional looking documents, newsletters, websites and then email all of the data anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye.

But let's not get ahead of ourselves -- I have learned five new skills with Word 2000 that are a most know for everyone. I will give a little question and answer period for the following:

Create your own digital certificate

Route a file

Add phonetic guides to text

Know what languages Word recognizes

Why would anyone need to insert the date and time into a document automatically? I can think of a number of reasons but I feel the best reason is that each time the document is printed it automatically...

Actually putting either the date or the time or both in a document is pretty easy but I know that there are plenty of secretaries out there still typing those things in each time they start a document. Insert the current date and time comes down to deciding where in the document you want them.
By putting the program's cursor in the chosen spot you can then go to the toolbar menu at the top of the page and look for the word 'Insert' and open the 'drop down menu.' On that menu is the option for Date and Time. I am sure that most people don't know that if you want to insert the date or time in a different language format you can easily change the format by clicking the language in the Language box and choosing the format you want. Now here is the kicker, you can select if you want the date and time to automatically update or to remain the same as the original choice by inserting the date and time as a field that's automatically updated when you open or print the document. Of course you may only want the original date and that simply means you insert the date from the menu as I mentioned earlier.

Creating your own digital certificate is pretty cool. You can even make it look like some special branch of the government like the CIA authorized your document. Actually, digital certificates you create isn't really an issued by a certification authority. So, a certificate that you create is only considered an unauthenticated certificate and will get you a warning if you try to pass it off on the Internet if the receiving PC has their security level set to medium or higher. But basically you create a digital certificate by opening Microsoft Windows Explorer and finding the SelfCert.exe. Once the file is found you simply double click on it and edit the…