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Microsoft Word Features which will give a personalized touch to the

documents.
Home tab
 Links : In this section we can add links to our
 clipboard : This tool allows us the option of being drafted documents. These can be hyperlinks to
able to use the different types of copies that we other documents or websites, this allows much
can make in other files, this can be traditional or in more information to be linked.
format, it also allows us to cut texts, and then be
able to use pasting or special pasting to add them  Header and footer : In this tab we can choose the
to the content. function of being able to add headers, footers, and
numbering of different types to our document for
 Source: Precisely in this small we will be able to better organization of it.
find all the Word applications whose specific
function is related to the typography of the writing.  Text : With this tool we can add text boxes to be
Here we can select the font, change the size, able to move them freely around the page, insert
highlight it, use bold, italics, and other options to signatures, dates, and the famous WordArt to give
further stylize the result of the text. more shine to the titles.

 Paragraph: In this section you can find all the  Symbol : As its name suggests, it can offer us the
necessary settings to edit the characteristics of possibility of adding equation symbols and
complete paragraphs of text. These configurations traditional symbols, for more academic works.
are based on alignments, line spacing,
indentations, order, numbering, lists, among other Page Layout Tab
options.
 Among the Word page design tools, in this tab we
 Styles: This section is very important when we can find and view tools linked to the design that
write because it allows us the opportunity to apply the document page should have. Among its
a predetermined style to the text selected for available applications is the possibility of being able
editing. With this tool you can save a lot of time to modify the theme of the document we are
writing and be more efficient in writing. You can working on, modify the basic settings, establish a
use the default styles or create your own styles to background on the page, change the organization
work with. of the components and alter the indentation and
spacing of the paragraphs.
 Editing: Here we can have all the text selection,
search and replacement options.  Topics : This section will allow us to select a
characteristic for the entire document being
Insert Tab drafted. It can be pre-configured or we can
establish it ourselves with our requirements.
 Pages : In this very used section, blank pages can
be inserted to start writing our document, the  Page configuration : Here we can get the different
popular predefined start covers, and page breaks. tools and applications that Microsoft Word can
offer us to be able to modify the measurements of
 Tables : As its name suggests, it gives us the facility the page, their orientation, margins and columns
to insert tables into our document being edited. among other applications.
You will be able to make a table from scratch,
configure a predesigned table, and even add a  Page background : In this option we can choose
table from the Exe, this with the function of between leaving the page blank or adding a color
categorizing the files. or image to the background to make it more
attractive. Within these options you can also find
 Illustrations : In this interesting tab we will find the ability to add a watermark for personalization.
multiple tools that have Word functions that will
allow us to insert pre-designed or file images,  Paragraph : In this section we can configure
shapes, graphics and diagrams called SmartArt, aspects such as indentation and spaces between
pages. The difference with the paragraph options  Select recipients: In this option you will only have
that are located on the Home tab is that here the to enter and create the names of the recipients of
changes are applied to the entire document. the correspondence, this will be done in list format.

 Organize : These tools are used to offer different Review Tab


options such as being able to group and ungroup,
 Spelling and grammar : This useful tool can correct
alignments, moving images forward or backward,
spelling errors that we may have in the text, it will
etc.
also correct grammatical errors.
References tab
 Reference : This application is used to add
 Table of contents : This section is mostly known by references to our document, searching their
users as the table of contents. This allows us to meanings in dictionaries.
organize the contents at different levels to guide us
 Synonyms : This tool has the function of not
in the document.
making the text repetitive, which will give us the
 Footnotes : These are used to make extra notes at enormous possibility of being able to replace words
the end of the document page, which is very useful with their synonyms, in this way a more fluid
in topics that are difficult to understand. reading is achieved.

 Citations and biography : In this important section,  Count words : This is a tool which works as a
all the sources of information used to prepare the simple word counter to keep a count of the written
text document can be entered in alphabetical words.
order.
 Translate : This application allows you to simply
 Titles : As its name suggests, it will allow us to add translate all the text that we select into the
titles to the page we are editing. language configured by the user.

 Table of authorities : Allows us to cite authorities View tab


that can support the content of the documents we
 Rule : Integrate a rule on the top and left margin of
write.
the document, this is done to place all the
Correspondence tab. elements in the most orderly way possible.

 Create envelopes: In this application that Word  Grid : This option is capable of making us display a
gives us, it allows us the possibility of creating a general grid on the entire screen.
structure for the edited document so that it can be
 Navigation panel : You can show or hide the
printed using an envelope.
navigation panel in text documents.
 Create labels: This is very similar to the create
 Zoom : It can give us the possibility of zooming in
envelope tool, but is focused specifically on
or out of the text document for better viewing. Its
creating labels. It will make it easier for us to build
function is basically to be able to work at the
a solid structure for correspondence.
distance that is most comfortable for us.
 Mail merge: This is a very efficient alternative if
 One page : This tool allows us to display the
you want to send letters with common formats to
current document one page at a time for a better
many people but with the addition of changing
visualization of the details.
small details to them. It will allow you to generate
a text document with variable fields such as name,  Two pages : It shows us the current document on
address, among other categories, all to facilitate two pages, this has the function of being able to
your task. observe the structure of the document much
better to make
Gustavo Adolfo Velasquez Osorio

Third basic

Section: “D”

Types of punctuations in business letters

Open scoring

Punctuation marks are not used after the lines of the


recipient (name and place), greeting, farewell, company
name (antesignature), or the signature parts. Only carry the
point in the paragraphs that make up the body of the letter.

Mixed or standard score

Only the two points are used after the greeting and the
comma after the farewell. The end of every paragraph ends
with a full stop. It is the most used in our environment.
Closed or complete score

It has punctuation:

Point after date.

Comma after each line of the recipient, except for the last
one that has a period.

Two points after the greeting.

Eat after goodbye.

Comma after each of the lines of the signature, except for


the last one that has a period.

Gustavo Adolfo Velasquez Osorio

Third basic

Section: “D”

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