critique one of microsoft products

Running Head : MICROSOFT OFFICE WORD USER MANUAL (Student 's name (Name of Institution (Course

1 .0 Abstract

A user manual is a document that is prepared during or after the design and development of a software explaining to the users how to use this software (Honeywell , 2009 . This examines the Microsoft Office Word 2007 user manual and comes up with a critique to this user manual

2 .0 Microsoft Office Word 2007 user manual

The office word 2007 user manual is organized into several sections each acting as a specific tutorial for

that section . These sections include accessibility , word activation , word add ins , word automation and programming , collaboration , conversion of documents , specific document creation , customization , management of s , formatting , help footers and headers , lists , mail merge , margin and page setups , page breaks and sections break , page numbering , tracking changes and comments , training , viewing and navigation , what is new , demonstrations in word , working on charts and on graphics and finally writing (Microsoft , 2008

The layout of the sections is such that they have step by step explanation of how to do specific tasks . It is quite straight forward since it is the same throughout the entire user manual document . It can be said that it is not a crowded user manual since only the relevant tasks are talked about . This makes it look more of a summary of a much bigger user manual . The language used is quite simple to understand

In the step by step explanations of how to...