Microsoft Word 2000 Features

¶ … 2000 Features

Word 2000 has a lot of features that can be useful when writing a research paper. Generally, Word 2000 can do almost all things you would need to produce a well-formatted and properly-styled document. Following are some of the basics but important features one might need when writing a document.

Spelling and Grammar Checking

Word 2000 can provide you with an ongoing spelling checking (Johnson, 2001). While working on your document, Word 2000 can automatically check your spellings and make the necessary corrections on minor errors. For instance, Word 2000 can automatically correct typographical error of words such as " the" into "the." Also, when Word 2000 cannot recognize a possibly misspelled word, it places a red wavy line under it to indicate that the word might be mispelled.

Word 2000 also provides grammar checking. However, unlike spelling checking, it does not automatically correct possible grammar errors. It only places a green wavy line under the word that is possibly a cause of an incorrect grammar. The spelling and grammar checking of Word 2000 can be activated or deactivated by the user.

Text Formatting

Word 2000 has a text-formatting feature wherein users can change the looks of fonts. This includes font styles, size, color, background, bolding, italicizing, and underlining. These features are basically useful to indicate headers, body text, and footnotes.

Paragraph Formatting

Word 2000 also features formatting of paragraphs. It has the capability of aligning paragraphs, indenting paragraphs, setting line spacing between lines of a paragraph, and setting tabs (Johnson, 2001). When indenting paragraphs, word can provide indention bullets. This is particularly useful when writing a list. Or, aside from indention bullets, Word 2000 can also use numberings.

Document Formatting

Document formatting features include page set up where the look of the entire document can be changed. Page set up includes margin settings, paper orientation, page numbering, and header and footer.

Inserting Clip Arts and Tables

Word 2000 allows insertion of graphics and images in a document. It also allows insertion of tables that is ideal for data that needs to be in tabular form. Aside from these, Word 2000 has drawing tools that a user can use to draw shapes such as lines, square, circle, arrows, etc.