Microsoft Word
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Microsoft Word (often called Word) is a word processing program that users can write (type) on. It is made by the computer company Microsoft. It includes helpful tools to make good documents. Some of the important tools include a spelling & grammar checker, word count (this also counts letters and lines), and the newer version includes speech recognition (a technology that lets users control their computers by speaking to it, or telling it what to write). Moreover, with this program one can make attractive documents, insert pictures in documents, make web pages, graphs etc. Also, it displays synonyms (similar words) of words and can read out the text. Not to forget its fully customizable printing facility. It can be bought at shops and normally comes with Microsoft Office, but can be brought separately.
[change] History
The program was first released in 1981. Many of the ideas and features in Microsoft Word came from Bravo, the first graphical writing program. Microsoft brought the Bravo program, and changed its name to Microsoft Word. When it first came out, it was not very popular, and didn't sell as well as other writing programs like WordPerfect. Although it was not very popular when it came out, it had a feature called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which meant that people can change the visual style of writing (e.g. bold, italics), by clicking on buttons, when in other programs like WordPerfect, people had to add special 'codes' to change the style of writing. WYSIWYG is now a common feature of all computer writing programs.
[change] Versions
There are versions for Microsoft Word for other operating systems as well as Microsft Windows.
[change] For Microsoft Windows
Note:' "Word for Windows" is the name of the of Microsoft Word made for Microsoft Windows.'
- Word for Windows 1.0, for Windows 2.x came out in 1989.
- Word for Windows 1.1, for Windows 3.0 came out in March, 1990.
- Word for Windows 1.1a, for Windows 3.1 came out in June, 1990.
- Word for Windows 2.0, came out in 1991.
- Word for Windows 6.0, came out in 1993.
- Word for Windows 95 (sometimes called Word 7), came out in 1995.
- Word 97 (sometimes called Word 8), came out in 1997.
- Word 2000 (sometimes called Word 9), came out in 1999.
- Word 2002 (sometimes called Word 10 or Word XP), came out in 2001.
