Why Learning How to Use Microsoft Word Matters

Why learn how to use Microsoft Word?

Communication in the workplace is very important. Whether you're a student or you run a one-person freelance business or work for a company with thousands of employees, reading and writing documents on a computer is a vital skill.

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Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing program and is considered the standard word processor for most individual computer users and businesses. Word can help you create documents, save them, print them, and share them with others.

Term papers, reports, brochures, flyers, and memos are all examples of documents you can create in Microsoft Word.

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