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MICROSOFT WORD
Sometimes called Winword, MS Word, or Word, Microsoft Word is a word processor published by Microsoft. It is one of the office productivity applications included in the Microsoft Office suite. Originally developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, it was first released in 1983.
Microsoft Word is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Android, and Apple iOS. It can also run on the Linux operating system using WINE.
Microsoft Word lets you create professional-quality documents, reports, letters, and résumés. Unlike a plain text editor, Microsoft Word has features including spell check, grammar check, text and font formatting, HTML support, image support, advanced page layout, and more.
Below is an overview of a Microsoft Word 2010 document.
If you have Microsoft Word or the entire Microsoft Office package installed on Microsoft Windows, you can access Microsoft Word in your Start menu.
Keep in mind that new computers do not include Microsoft Word. It must be purchased and installed before running it on your computer. If you do not want (or cannot afford) to purchase Microsoft Word, you can use a limited version for free at the Microsoft Office website.
If Microsoft Word is installed on your computer, but you can't find it in your Start menu, use the following steps to launch Microsoft Word manually.
Open My Computer or File Explorer.
Click or select the C: drive. If Microsoft Office is installed on a drive other than the C: drive, select that drive instead.
Find and open the Program Files (x86) or Program Files folder.
Open the Microsoft Office folder.
In the Microsoft Office folder, open the root folder. Then open the OfficeXX folder, where XX is the version of Microsoft Office (e.g., Office16 for Microsoft Office 2016) installed on your computer.
Find and double-click the file named WINWORD.EXE to start the Microsoft Word program.
Press the Windows key.
Type Word and select the Microsoft Word entry in the search results.
If Microsoft Word does not open after selecting it in the search results, press Enter to launch it.
Microsoft Word is a word processor, and, like other word processors, it's capable of helping users create various types of documents. For example, users can create a résumé, business contract, instruction document, or a letter to another person. We've included a list of the top uses of a word processor on our word processor page.
By default, there are 29 lines on one page in Microsoft Word.
Early versions of Microsoft Word primarily created and used the .doc file extension, while newer versions of Word create and use the .docx file extension.
More recent versions of Microsoft Word support the creation and opening of these types of files:
.doc, .docm, .docx
.dot, .dotm, .dotx
.htm, .html
.mht, .mhtml
.odt
.rtf
.txt
.wps
.xps
.xml
We created a Microsoft Word document that you can download and open in most word processor programs, including Microsoft Word. Click the link below to download the example Word document and experiment more with a word processing document.
Download example.doc
Microsoft Word offers many features not found in a traditional text editor or a plain-text file. Some advantages include changing the formatting (e.g., center), editing the font type, size, and color, inserting pictures, and more.
A rich-text editor, like WordPad, offers many of the same basic features as Microsoft Word. Where Microsoft Word differs is the ability to do more advanced features. The advanced features include mail merges, spellchecker, styles, tables, headers & footers, WordArt, columns, margins, and more.
Microsoft Word has had several versions throughout its history. The different releases with release dates are listed below.
Word 2019, released in 2018
Office 365 and Word 2016, released in 2016
Word 2013, released in 2013
Word 2010, released in 2010
Word 2007, released in 2006
Word 2003, released in 2003
Word 2002, released in 2001
Word 2000, released in 1999
Word 98, released in 1998
Word 97, released in 1997
Word 95, released in 1995
Word 6.0, released in 1993
Word 2.0, released in 1991
Word 1.1, released in 1990
Word 1.0, originally invented for MS-DOS and Xenix in 1983 by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, working for Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Word was released in the Windows OS in 1989
Word 2019, released in 2018
Word 2016, released in 2015
Word 2011, released in 2010
Word 2008, released in 2008
Word 2004, released in 2004
Word v. X, released in 2001
Word 2001, released in 2000
Word 98, released in 1998
Word 6, released in 1993
Word 5.1, released in 1992
Word 5, released in 1991
Word 4, released in 1989
Word 3, released in 1987
Word 1, released in 1985
Microsoft Word 2019 Fundamentals Workshop