Microsoft Office 2003 Gujarati
Gujarati is one of the ancient languages of India or has a rich heritage. Gujarat language computing is entering a new era with Microsoft Office 2003. Office System has grown from a personal productivity package into a comprehensive and integrated system. Right from individuals and simple users, who want a simple word-processor, all the way up to large enterprises employing hundreds or thousands of employees, the Office System is all pervasive. Now all these powerful collaborative features are available for the users of Gujarati language on computers. Added to these is the new Gujarati interface which takes the Microsoft Office 2003 Gujarati to next level. Gujarati interface is available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Benefits
The Microsoft Office 2003 Gujarati has the components required to create solutions that will help:
Improve individual productivity by transforming the paper and pen based work into electronic form.
Business users both in the public and private sectors will benefit from the ability to have better access to information so they can gain deeper insights and take more effective action.
Ability to respond quickly to the fast changing scenarios.
Enable teams and organizations to work together with speed and agility.
Transform the traditional office setup into paperless office.
Keyboard layouts
Microsoft Office 2003 Gujarati has many keyboard layouts for Gujarati apart from the default Gujarati keyboard layout of Windows XP. Users can choose the layout they feel comfortable with. One may not need to memorize another
keyboard layout. It has popular keyboards like Inscript, Gujarati Transliteration, and Gujarati Typewriter. For those who are starting afresh with Gujarati on computers, learning the keyboard layout is simple. The on-screen keyboard helps in typing Gujarati text. Microsoft has released a keyboard layout creator. The user can create a new keyboard layout or can modify an existing one. Typing in Gujarati is no longer a problem.
Gujarati Interface
For the first time, Microsoft Office has a Gujarati Interface It gives an altogether new experience of working in Gujarati. Menus, sub-menus, dialogs are all available in Gujarati now. Gujarati interface takes the implementation of Gujarati on computers to next level. Gujarati interface is available for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. Gujarati user interface can be invoked via Microsoft Office 2003 Language Settings which is a part of Microsoft Office Tools under Microsoft Office. Once this is invoked, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook will all have menus, dialog boxes, etc. in Gujarati.
A complete list of the programs that make up the Microsoft Office and the features that will help usage of Gujarati on computers is given below.
Microsoft Office Word 2003 is the Office word processor. Word 2003 has comprehensive features to make creation, sharing and reading of documents easier. It has all the features of a top-of-the-line word-processor. Additionally, the review and markup features provide many ways for tracking changes and managing comments. Word 2003 also supports XML as a file format and serves as a fully functional XML editor. Besides, you can use Word 2003 to save and open XML files to integrate with key business data in your organization. Some salient features are given below. All these features are now available for the Gujarati computing community.
Formatting documentsWord offers several page margin options. User can either use the default page margins or specify his own. User can also make use of the double sided page setup which is useful for books. Paragraphs can be aligned in many ways –left, center, and right or justified. Different indents for the left or right side of the text, special hanging indents, have an additional space before or after the paragraph. There is a widow and orphan control that does not allow just one line of a paragraph to appear at the bottom of a page. For typing lists, there are options for bulleted and numbered forms. Characters can be formatted in many ways: bold, italic, underline, animated, color, superscript, subscript, etc. There are some animation effects as well to choose from. Text can be highlighted as if one is using a highlighter on a printed book.
Graphics
There are two basic types of graphics that a user can use in Microsoft Word documents: drawing objects and pictures. Drawing objects include basic shapes, such as rectangles and circles, plus a variety of lines and connectors, block arrows, flowchart symbols, stars, banners, callouts, diagrams, curves, lines, etc. Pictures are the graphics that are created from another file. They include bitmaps, scanned pictures and photographs, and clip art. User can change and enhance pictures. Creating an organizational chart or a brochure highlighting the annual performance with some graphs and photos is a matter of some mouse clicks.
Word has powerful table feature. A table can be created with rows and columns and filled with text and graphics. Tables are often used to organize and present information. You can also use tables to create attractive page layouts or to create text, graphics and nested tables on a Web page. Word also allows importing tables from other Office programs, such as Excel, Access, etc. Table allow complex graphics formatting— such as bulleted lists, custom tabs, numbering, hanging indents, individual cell formatting, and splitting cells diagonally. Cells can be merged as well. Text entered in tables can be sorted as per Gujarati collation order.
Header and footer
User can have repeating text or graphics at the top or bottom of every page, normally called header and footer. Headers and footers often contain page numbers, chapter titles, dates, and author names on a page. User can have different header and footer for the first page and for the sections and for even and odd pages.
WordArt allows user to insert decorative text. User can create shadowed, skewed, rotated, and stretched text, as well as texts that have been fitted to predefined shapes. Text on the WordArt can be filled with different colors, effects like shadow can be added and the text can be rotated, to make impressive documents. Watermark feature allows any graphic or text, that, when printed, appears behind existing document text.
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