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Microsoft Word is a word processing program first developed by Microsoft in 1983 that allows users to create professional documents, reports, letters, and resumes. It offers features like spell check, font formatting, image insertion, and styles/designs. More advanced capabilities include setting margins/tabs, inserting tables of contents, footnotes, and cross-references. These types of features make Microsoft Word useful for book writing or brochure creation compared to the basic WordPad program. The software has been continually updated over the decades and is now included in Microsoft Office subscriptions and software versions.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processing program first developed by Microsoft in 1983 that allows users to create professional documents, reports, letters, and resumes. It offers features like spell check, font formatting, image insertion, and styles/designs. More advanced capabilities include setting margins/tabs, inserting tables of contents, footnotes, and cross-references. These types of features make Microsoft Word useful for book writing or brochure creation compared to the basic WordPad program. The software has been continually updated over the decades and is now included in Microsoft Office subscriptions and software versions.

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Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processing program that was first developed by Microsoft in
1983. Since that time, Microsoft has released an abundance of updated versions, each
offering more features and incorporating better technology than the one before it. The
most current web-based version of Microsoft Word is Office 365, but the software
version of Microsoft Office 2019 includes Word 2019.

Microsoft Word allows you to 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.

If you only want to create simple documents, consisting of paragraphs with bulleted and
numbered lists with very little formatting, you don’t need to purchase Microsoft Word.
You can use the WordPad application included with Windows 7, Windows 8.1,
and Windows 10. If you need to do more than that though, you’ll need a more powerful
word processing program.

With Microsoft Word you can choose from a variety of preconfigured styles and designs,
which provides an easy way to format long documents with just a single click. You can
also insert pictures and videos from your computer and the internet, draw shapes, and
create an insert all kinds of charts.

If you’re writing a book or creating a brochure, which you can’t do effectively (or at all) in
WordPad, you can use the features in Microsoft Word to set margins and tabs, insert
page breaks, create columns, and even configure the spacing between lines. There are
also features that let you create a table of contents with a single click. You can insert
footnotes too, as well as headers and footers. There are options to create
bibliographies, captions, a table of figures, and even cross-references.

If any of these things sound like what you’d like to do with your next writing project, then
you’re going to need Microsoft Word.

The History of Microsoft Word

Over the years there have been many versions of the Microsoft Office suite. Most of
these versions came with lower-priced suites that only included the most basic apps
(often Word, PowerPoint, and Excel), to higher priced suites that included some or all of
them (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, SharePoint, Exchange, Skype, and
more). These suite editions had names like “Home and Student” or “Personal”, or
“Professional”. There are too many combinations to list here, but what’s important to
note is that Word is included with any suite you can buy.

Here are the recent Microsoft Office Suites that also contain Word:
 Microsoft Word 365) is available and updated regularly in Office 365
 Word Online is a free limited version.
 Word 2019 is available in Office 2019
 Word 2016 is available in Office 2016
 Word 2013 was available in Office 2013
 Word 2010 was available in Office 2010
 Word 2007 was included with Office 2007
 Word 2003 was included with Office 2003
 Word 2002 was included in Office XP

Of course, Microsoft Word has existed in some form since the early 1980s and has had
versions for most platforms (even from before Microsoft Windows existed).

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