Auto Format: Auto format is used to automatically apply uniform style and formatting to a document, and its appearance.
To apply auto format you have to do the following:
1. Position the insertion point in the text you want to format.
2. Select the auto format option from the format menu. (a dialog box will appear in the screen which is shown below)

3. Select one of the following:
a. Click on the auto format now radio button to apply formatting without allowing you to accept or reject the changes.
b. Click on the auto format and review each change radio button to apply formatting and then allow you to accept or reject the changes.
4. Specify the type of formatting for auto format to use in the please sekect a document type to help improve the formatting process box.
5. Click on the OK button. To automatically format the document.

Numbering pages:
Ms Word allow you to add automatic page number You can apply character formatting to a selected page number in a header or footer by using:
Page number option. To insert page number by using the page number options, You can follow the step:
1. Position the insertion points the section you want to number.
2. Select the page number option from the insert menu.
3. Specify different position in the page numbers dialog box with the position and alignment drop down menus in the page number dialog box.
4. Put a check mark in the show number on first page check box to display the page number on the first page.
5. Click on the OK button.

Bookmarks:
To identify the beginning of a chapter, tables, spots that need work of the place in the document where you left off. You can mark a place, a character, a range of characters, graphics or almost any other word document element. Bookmark can be use to indicate specific points without scrolling and searching and ranges of pages in indexes
To define bookmark, you can follow the steps:
1. Select the place in the document where you want a bookmark.
2. Select the bookmark option from the insert menu. You can also press "Ctrl+shift+F5"

3. In the bookmark name text box enter a unique name consisting of a maximum of 40 characters, numbers and spaces are allowed.
4. Click on add button.
5. Click on the close button at the top right corner of the dialog box.
Steps to view a bookmark
1. Select the options option from tools menu.
2. Select the view tab.
3. Click on the bookmark check box in the show area of the dialog box.

4. Click on OK button.

Spell Checking
To spell checking of your document you can do the following:
1. Select the options option from the tools menu.
2. Select the spelling and grammar tab and disable the check spelling as you type option.
The spell checker lets you select the suggested replacement words, type your own correction, ignore unrecognized words or add to the customized dictionaries.
To spell check of a document by using the spelling and grammar dialog box, follow the steps:
1. Select the spelling and grammar option from the tools menu and press F7 or click on the spell check toolbar button.
2. Select a portion of the document for spell check . if no text is selected, word scan the whole document beginning from the insertion point.
3. Click on the ignore button to ignore the misspelled word, or click on the ignore all button to ignore the word throughout the document.
4. Click on the change button to replace the misspelled word displayed in the Not in dictionary box. Type the replacement in the change to box.
5. Click on the change all button to change every occurrence of the misspelled word to the one displayed in the change to box.
6. Click on the add button to put the not in dictionary word into the dictionary.
7. Click on the undo button to reverse the last change.
8. Click on the cancel button to end the spell check.

Using Auto Correct:
To create a auto correct entries follow these steps:
1. Select the auto correct option from the tools menu.
2. Type the word that you want to create an auto correct entry in the replace box.
3. Type the replacement in the with box.
4. Select the add button to add an entry to the list.
5. Click on the OK button to close the auto correct dialog box.

Mail Merge:
Suppose, you have to write letters to 10 friends inviting them for your marriage ceremony and also send them thank you letters for attending your sister's weeding. For this, you have to type 10 invitation letters and 10 thank you letters, where the contents of the letters remain the same, except for your friend's names and their respective addresses Hence, you would be wasting lot of time typing the same letter over and over again. Besides, after a point it would get very boring cumbersome.
Microsoft word provides a mail merge feature that helps you to achieve the above task easily. Merging is a process of transferring selected information from one document to another document.

To create a mail merge document you have to do the following:
1. First of all create a document.
2. Save the letter as letter.doc
3. Choose mail merge from tools menu.
4. (Mail merge dialog box)
5. Click on the create, button.
6. Choose the option form-letter from the drop-down menu
7. Click on the active window button to select letter.doc.
8. Click on the button get data. You will get 2 options.
9. Choose create data source option
10. (a dialog box)
11. Select title from the field names in header row list box and click on "Remove field name button".
12. Type destination on in the field name dialoged box and click on add Field Name button.
13. In the Save As dialog box type the file name as glodata.doc.
14. Click on Edit Data Source button to add some records into the data file.
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16. Type information in record 1.
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18. Click on the Add New button to add next record of information.
19. Click on the OK button to close the Data form dialog box.
20. Place the cursor below the data and click on the Insert Merge Field button.
21. Select the field FirstName. Press a space bar and the select the field Last name in the same line.
22. Click on the Merge to New Document button.
23. Save and close th file as merletters.doc.
24. Save and close the file letters.doc.