Critical Information Systems Microsoft Word 2010 Product Guide

Microsoft Word 2010 is a more advanced program than earlier versions which has been modified and enhanced to better serve the public’s needs. The Microsoft
Word 2010 Product Guide describes the differences and improvements for this program. The following pros and cons are things that I found to be helpful and some things that need to be improved.

A clear positive feature of the user’s manual is that it highlights the new aspects of the 2010 version of Microsoft Word. This is a marketing plus that caught my attention.

One improvement to Microsoft Word 2010 is picture editing where you can edit photos without the need for other editing programs. There are many options to change the photos, including sharpen and soften, brightness and contrast, photocopy, marker, line drawing, glass, pastels and more. There is also a new feature that can remove the background to display exactly what is desired to be shown in the picture. The manual includes an explanation of how to navigate to the proper place for the picture editing.

Screen shot is another feature that I find useful. To be able to capture a screen shot within Word makes the process much more convenient than going through other programs then transferring it to Word. There are clear cut instructions to show where to go to use the screen shot method.

The improvement of spell checker not only catches the misspelled word, but it can also correct a word which is used incorrectly in context. This is a great benefit where words sound the same and are spelled correctly but are incorrect in the context.

I found that the manual was organized especially to clearly state what was new and improved. Since it provided a description of the improvements along with instructions in how