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Notes 7.10.5 Full Screen View

Use the Full Screen view to hide all of Word’s menus, toolbars, and rulers and have the
whole screen to write. On selecting View >> Full Screen, nothing is displayed on the screen
except the document and the one-button toolbar. To return to the previous view, click once
on the button or press Esc.

7.10.6 Web Page Preview

In Web page preview, you can see how your document will look in a Web browser.
Microsoft Word saves a copy of your document and then opens it in your default browser.
If your Web browser is not already running, Word starts it automatically. You can return
to your document in Word any time.

7.10.7 Print Preview
In print preview, you can display multiple pages of a document reduced in size. In this view,
you can see page breaks, hidden text, and watermarks, and you can make editing or
formatting changes before you print the document.

7.10.8 Zoom
Zooming changes the magnification of the document. The default is 100 percent. User can
zoom up to 500 percent. Highes zooms are good for overall design checking and lower
zooms are good for detail checking.

Each view can have a different zoom level.

History of Microsoft Word

icrosoft Word is a well known word processing software developed by
Microsoft. Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office Word was initially released in
M 1983. It was meant for the XENIX systems in the beginning. But as it grew,
Microsoft Word was rewritten so it can support several other platforms such as DOS,
Macintosh, UNIX, OS/2, and Windows. In 2003, Microsoft Word became part of the
Microsoft’s complete office suite software known as the Microsoft Office. Thus the name
‘Microsoft Word’ officially changed to ‘Microsoft Office Word’.
Microsoft Word Version Release History

1983

- Word 1 for MS-DOS
1985

- Word 2 for MS-DOS

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