Thursday, December 13, 2012

Tools Menu


Tool:  
Includes checking grammar & spelling, to select auto summarize & auto correct  facility, document protection, create envelope & tables or labels, macros, mail merging the document. It also includes the option button which includes all the main settings of MS-Word such as security, File location, compatibility etc. 


Spelling and Grammar: Spell check is run using either the tools/ spelling menu selection or by clicking the spelling button. You can check an entire document or a selected word or passage.

Language: You can change the language or omit proofing for a document or for selected text in a document. If you change the language, you must have the dictionary of the language or a related to check the spelling.

Thesaurus: Electronic thesaurus lets you look up and select synonyms for words in the text of you WordStar document at any time during editing.

Word count: This option is used to count the total number of pages, word, character,(no spaces), character (with spaces), paragraph, lines in the file.




Auto summarize: Automatically summarize a document. AutoSummarize identifies the key points in a document. AutoSummarize works best on well-structured documents, such as reports, articles, and scientific papers.

Protect document: You can protect the text of a document from being changed by other assign a password to the file. Passwords are case sensitive.

Mail Marge: Word’s Mail Merge feature to combine a data source with a main document. The data source is a Word database file that contains the information that changes for each document. The main document contains the texts that stays the same in each document and merge field codes that instruct Word where to insert the data source information. Mail merge is the printing of a bunch of similar documents by merging the information in one document, called the main or master documents, with essentially a database of variable information in second document, called the data source.

Macro: A macro is a series of commands that you can group together as a signal command to make everyday task simpler and easier. A macro is first recorded and saves with a name and a shortcut key. When you record the macro, you perform a series of steps. When you run the macro, these steps are performed exactly as you recorded them.

Auto correct: Control the capitalization of some text when you are inputting a string of artistic text or block of paragraph text. It also allows you to build quick shortcut words when entering repetitive information.
 

Customize:

     Create a custom toolbar

  1. On the Tools menu, click Customize.
  2. Click the Toolbars tab.
  3. Click New.
  4. In the Toolbar name box, type the name you want.
  5. Click the Commands tab.
  6. Do one of the following:
Add a button to the toolbar
1.    Click a category in the Categories box.
2.    Drag the command you want from the Commands box to the displayed toolbar.
3.    In the Categories box, click Built-in Menus.
4.    Drag the menu you want from the Commands box to the displayed toolbar.

When you have added all the buttons and menus you want, click Close.