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id="toc-Third-party_formats-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Features" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Features"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Features</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Features-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Features subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Features-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Templates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Templates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Templates</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Templates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Image_formats" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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</a> <ul id="toc-Layout_issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Issues_with_technical_documents" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Issues_with_technical_documents"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.6</span> <span>Issues with technical documents</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Issues_with_technical_documents-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bullets_and_numbering" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bullets_and_numbering"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.7</span> <span>Bullets and numbering</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bullets_and_numbering-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-AutoSummarize" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#AutoSummarize"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.8</span> <span>AutoSummarize</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-AutoSummarize-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Spike" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Spike"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.9</span> <span>Spike</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Spike-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Hidden_text" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Hidden_text"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.10</span> <span>Hidden text</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Hidden_text-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Password_protection" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Password_protection"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.11</span> <span>Password protection</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Password_protection-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Versions_and_platforms" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Versions_and_platforms"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Versions and platforms</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Versions_and_platforms-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Versions and platforms subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Versions_and_platforms-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Word_for_Windows" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Word_for_Windows"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Word for Windows</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Word_for_Windows-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Word_for_Mac" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Word_for_Mac"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Word for Mac</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Word_for_Mac-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Write_for_Atari_ST" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Write_for_Atari_ST"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Write for Atari ST</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Write_for_Atari_ST-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Write_for_Macintosh" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Write_for_Macintosh"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.4</span> <span>Write for Macintosh</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Write_for_Macintosh-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Word_on_mobile_platforms" 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vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Release_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Release history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Release_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Notes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" title="Table of Contents" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" data-event-name="ui.dropdown-vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown-checkbox 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA_%D9%88%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="مايكروسوفت وورد – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="مايكروسوفت وورد" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%AB%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%93%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%A1" title="মাইক্রোসফট ওয়ার্ড – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="মাইক্রোসফট ওয়ার্ড" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="مایکروسافت ورد – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مایکروسافت ورد" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Word" title="Microsoft Office Word – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Microsoft Office Word" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A7%88%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC%EB%A1%9C%EC%86%8C%ED%94%84%ED%8A%B8_%EC%9B%8C%EB%93%9C" title="마이크로소프트 워드 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="마이크로소프트 워드" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Word" title="Microsoft Office Word – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Microsoft Office Word" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="माइक्रोसॉफ्ट वर्ड – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="माइक्रोसॉफ्ट वर्ड" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%98_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%93" title="מיקרוסופט וורד – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מיקרוסופט וורד" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Word" title="Microsoft Office Word – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Microsoft Office Word" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B1%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%A1%E0%B5%8D" title="മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റ് വേഡ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റ് വേഡ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%89%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="मायक्रोसॉफ्ट वर्ड – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="मायक्रोसॉफ्ट वर्ड" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>मराठी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A1" title="माइक्रोसफ्ट वर्ड – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="माइक्रोसफ्ट वर्ड" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>नेपाली</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc badge-Q70893996 mw-list-item" title=""><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%AE%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%88%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%8D%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%B8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%AB%E0%A8%9F_%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A1" title="ਮਾਈਕ੍ਰੋਸਾਫਟ ਵਰਡ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਮਾਈਕ੍ਰੋਸਾਫਟ ਵਰਡ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-blk mw-list-item"><a href="https://blk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Pa&#039;O" lang="blk" hreflang="blk" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ" data-language-local-name="Pa&#039;O" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ပအိုဝ်ႏဘာႏသာႏ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Runa Simi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русиньскый</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B8%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%8A%E2%80%8D%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%9C%E0%B7%83%E0%B7%9C%E0%B7%86%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%A7%E0%B7%8A_%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%8A%E0%B6%A9%E0%B7%8A" title="මයික්‍රොසොෆ්ට් වර්ඩ් – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="මයික්‍රොසොෆ්ට් වර්ඩ්" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>සිංහල</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%83%D8%B1%DB%86%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%81%D8%AA_%D9%88%DB%86%D8%B1%D8%AF" title="مایكرۆسۆفت وۆرد – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="مایكرۆسۆفت وۆرد" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8B%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%81" title="மைக்ரோசாப்ட் வேர்டு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="மைக்ரோசாப்ட் வேர்டு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%A1%E0%B9%82%E0%B8%84%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%9F%E0%B8%97%E0%B9%8C_%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A7%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%A3%E0%B9%8C%E0%B8%94" title="ไมโครซอฟท์ เวิร์ด – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ไมโครซอฟท์ เวิร์ด" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Тоҷикӣ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Українська</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%B9_%D9%88%D8%B1%DA%88" title="مائیکروسافٹ ورڈ – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="مائیکروسافٹ ورڈ" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>اردو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_Word" title="Microsoft Office Word – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Microsoft Office Word" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Vepsän kel’</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tiếng Việt</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>吴语</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ייִדיש</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-yue mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-yue.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Cantonese" lang="yue" hreflang="yue" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="粵語" data-language-local-name="Cantonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>粵語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Word" title="Microsoft Word – Chinese" lang="zh" hreflang="zh" data-title="Microsoft Word" data-language-autonym="中文" data-language-local-name="Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>中文</span></a></li> </ul> <div class="after-portlet after-portlet-lang"><span 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data-file-height="480" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Microsoft Office 365 version of Microsoft Word, with the new redesign applied</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Other names</th><td class="infobox-data">Multi-Tool Word</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Programmer" title="Programmer">Developer(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">October&#160;25, 1983<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;41 years ago</span><span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">1983-10-25</span>)</span></td></tr><tr style="display: none;"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th 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class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> (Windows)</th><td class="infobox-data">2501 (Build 18429.20158) / 11&#160;February 2025<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;6 days ago</span><span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2025-02-11</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-office-2021_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office-2021-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_365" title="Microsoft 365">Microsoft 365</a> (Mac)</th><td class="infobox-data">16.94 (Build 25020927) / 11&#160;February 2025<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;6 days ago</span><span style="display:none">&#160;(<span 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style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2025-02-14</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Android</th><td class="infobox-data">16.0 (Build 18526.20030) / 4&#160;February 2025<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;13 days ago</span><span style="display:none">&#160;(<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2025-02-04</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">iOS</th><td class="infobox-data">2.94 / 11&#160;February 2025<span class="noprint">&#59;&#32;6 days 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href="/wiki/ARM_architecture_family" title="ARM architecture family">Arm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arm64" class="mw-redirect" title="Arm64">Arm64</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Multi-Tool_Word" class="mw-redirect" title="Multi-Tool Word">Multi-Tool Word</a> or <a href="/wiki/WordPad" title="WordPad">WordPad</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Word_processor" title="Word processor">Word processor</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Trialware" class="mw-redirect" title="Trialware">Trialware</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/word">microsoft<wbr />.com<wbr />/en-us<wbr />/microsoft-365<wbr />/word</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><b>Microsoft Word</b> is a <a href="/wiki/Word_processor_program" title="Word processor program">word processing program</a> developed by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a>. It was first released on October 25, 1983,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> under the name <b>Multi-Tool Word</b> for <a href="/wiki/Xenix" title="Xenix">Xenix</a> systems.<sup id="cite_ref-PCHistory_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCHistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: <a href="/wiki/IBM_PC" class="mw-redirect" title="IBM PC">IBM PCs</a> running <a href="/wiki/DOS" title="DOS">DOS</a> (1983), <a href="/wiki/Apple_Macintosh" class="mw-redirect" title="Apple Macintosh">Apple Macintosh</a> running the <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a> (1985), <a href="/wiki/AT%26T_UNIX_PC" title="AT&amp;T UNIX PC">AT&amp;T UNIX PC</a> (1985), <a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a> (1988), <a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> (1989), <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows" title="Microsoft Windows">Microsoft Windows</a> (1989), <a href="/wiki/SCO_Unix" class="mw-redirect" title="SCO Unix">SCO Unix</a> (1990), <a href="/wiki/Handheld_PC" title="Handheld PC">Handheld PC</a> (1996), <a href="/wiki/Pocket_PC" title="Pocket PC">Pocket PC</a> (2000), <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> (2001), <a href="/wiki/Web_browsers" class="mw-redirect" title="Web browsers">Web browsers</a> (2010), <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a> (2014), and <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> (2015). </p><p>Microsoft Word has been the <i><a href="/wiki/De_facto" title="De facto">de facto</a></i> standard word processing software since the 1990s when it eclipsed <a href="/wiki/WordPerfect" title="WordPerfect">WordPerfect</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Commercial versions of Word are licensed as a standalone product or as a component of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office</a>, which can be purchased with a perpetual license, or as part of the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_365" title="Microsoft 365">Microsoft 365</a> suite as a <a href="/wiki/Software_as_a_service" title="Software as a service">subscription</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word" title="History of Microsoft Word">History of Microsoft Word</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Word_1.0.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Word_1.0.png/220px-Word_1.0.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c1/Word_1.0.png/330px-Word_1.0.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c1/Word_1.0.png 2x" data-file-width="399" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Microsoft Word 1.0 for DOS (1983)</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1981, Microsoft hired <a href="/wiki/Charles_Simonyi" title="Charles Simonyi">Charles Simonyi</a>, the primary developer of <a href="/wiki/Bravo_(software)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bravo (software)">Bravo</a>, the first <a href="/wiki/GUI" class="mw-redirect" title="GUI">GUI</a> <a href="/wiki/Word_processor" title="Word processor">word processor</a>, which was developed at <a href="/wiki/PARC_(company)" title="PARC (company)">Xerox PARC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_word25_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld_word25-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Simonyi started work on a word processor called <i>Multi-Tool Word</i> and soon hired <a href="/wiki/Richard_Brodie_(programmer)" title="Richard Brodie (programmer)">Richard Brodie</a>, a former Xerox intern, who became the primary software engineer.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_word25_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld_word25-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Microsoft announced Multi-Tool Word for <a href="/wiki/Xenix" title="Xenix">Xenix</a><sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_word25_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld_word25-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and MS-DOS in 1983.<sup id="cite_ref-infoworld_multi-tool_word_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoworld_multi-tool_word-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Its name was soon simplified to <i>Microsoft Word</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-PCHistory_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCHistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Free demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November 1983 issue of <i><a href="/wiki/PC_World" title="PC World">PC World</a></i>, making it the first to be distributed on-disk with a <a href="/wiki/Magazine" title="Magazine">magazine</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PCHistory_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCHistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYTimes19930825_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYTimes19930825-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That year Microsoft demonstrated Word running on <a href="/wiki/Windows" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows">Windows</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-lemmons198312_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lemmons198312-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Unlike most <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a> programs at the time, Microsoft Word was designed to be used with a mouse.<sup id="cite_ref-infoworld_multi-tool_word_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoworld_multi-tool_word-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Advertisements depicted the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Mouse" title="Microsoft Mouse">Microsoft Mouse</a> and described Word as a <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a>, windowed word processor with the ability to <a href="/wiki/Undo" title="Undo">undo</a> and display bold, italic, and underlined text,<sup id="cite_ref-byte198312_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-byte198312-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although it could not render <a href="/wiki/Font" title="Font">fonts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-PCHistory_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PCHistory-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was not initially popular, since its user interface was different from the leading word processor at the time, <a href="/wiki/WordStar" title="WordStar">WordStar</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> However, Microsoft steadily improved the product, releasing versions 2.0 through 5.0 over the next six years. In 1985, Microsoft <a href="/wiki/Porting" title="Porting">ported</a> Word to the <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">classic Mac OS</a> (known as Macintosh System Software at the time). This was made easier by Word for DOS having been designed for use with high-resolution displays and laser printers, even though none were yet available to the general public.<sup id="cite_ref-lowendmac_history_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowendmac_history-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was also notable for its very fast cut-and-paste function and unlimited number of undo operations, which are due to its usage of the <a href="/wiki/Piece_table" title="Piece table">piece table</a> data structure.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the precedents of LisaWrite and MacWrite, Word for Mac OS added true <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> features. It fulfilled a need for a word processor that was more capable than <a href="/wiki/MacWrite" title="MacWrite">MacWrite</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After its release, Word for Mac OS's sales were higher than its MS-DOS counterpart for at least four years.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_word25_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld_word25-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second release of Word for Mac OS, shipped in 1987, was named Word 3.0 to synchronize its version number with Word for DOS; this was Microsoft's first attempt to synchronize version numbers across platforms. Word 3.0 included numerous internal enhancements and new features, including the first implementation of the <a href="/wiki/Rich_Text_Format" title="Rich Text Format">Rich Text Format</a> (RTF) specification, but was plagued with bugs. Within a few months, Word 3.0 was superseded by a more stable Word 3.01, which was mailed free to all registered users of 3.0.<sup id="cite_ref-lowendmac_history_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowendmac_history-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After MacWrite Pro was discontinued in the mid-1990s, Word for Mac OS never had any serious rivals. Word 5.1 for Mac OS, released in 1992, was a very popular word processor owing to its elegance, relative ease of use, and feature set. Many users say it is the best version of Word for Mac OS ever created.<sup id="cite_ref-lowendmac_history_25-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowendmac_history-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-msdn_macword6_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msdn_macword6-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1986, an agreement between <a href="/wiki/Atari" title="Atari">Atari</a> and Microsoft brought Word to the <a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a><sup id="cite_ref-Microsoft_Write_for_Atari_ST_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Microsoft_Write_for_Atari_ST-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> under the name <i><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Write" title="Microsoft Write">Microsoft Write</a></i>. The Atari ST version was a port of Word 1.05 for the Mac OS<sup id="cite_ref-Microsoft_Write_for_Atari_ST_review_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Microsoft_Write_for_Atari_ST_review-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Microsoft_Word_for_Atari_ST_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Microsoft_Word_for_Atari_ST-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and was never updated. </p><p>The first version of Word for Windows was released in 1989. With the release of <a href="/wiki/Windows_3.0" title="Windows 3.0">Windows 3.0</a> the following year, sales began to pick up and Microsoft soon became the market leader for word processors for <a href="/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer" title="IBM Personal Computer">IBM PC-compatible computers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld_word25_17-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld_word25-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1991, Microsoft capitalized on Word for Windows' increasing popularity by releasing a version of Word for DOS, version 5.5, that replaced its unique user interface with an interface similar to a Windows application.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When Microsoft became aware of the <a href="/wiki/Year_2000_problem" title="Year 2000 problem">Year 2000 problem</a>, it made Microsoft Word 5.5 for DOS available for free downloads. As of February&#160;2021<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit">&#91;update&#93;</a></sup>, it is still available for download from Microsoft's website.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 1991, Microsoft embarked on a project code-named Pyramid to completely rewrite Microsoft Word from the ground up. Both the Windows and Mac OS versions would start from the same code base. It was abandoned when it was determined that it would take the development team too long to rewrite and then catch up with all the new capabilities that could have been added at the same time without a rewrite. Instead, the next versions of Word for Windows and Mac OS, dubbed version 6.0, both started from the code base of Word for Windows 2.0.<sup id="cite_ref-msdn_macword6_28-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msdn_macword6-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>With the release of Word 6.0 in 1993, Microsoft again attempted to synchronize the version numbers and coordinate product naming across platforms, this time across DOS, Mac OS, and Windows (this was the last version of Word for DOS). It introduced AutoCorrect, which automatically fixed certain typing errors, and AutoFormat, which could reformat many parts of a document at once. While the Windows version received favorable reviews (e.g., from <i>InfoWorld</i><sup id="cite_ref-infoworld_word6_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-infoworld_word6-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup>), the Mac OS version was widely derided. Many accused it of being slow, clumsy, and memory intensive, and its user interface differed significantly from Word 5.1.<sup id="cite_ref-msdn_macword6_28-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msdn_macword6-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In response to user requests, Microsoft offered Word 5 again, after it had been discontinued.<sup id="cite_ref-ugeek_97_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ugeek_97-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Subsequent versions of Word for macOS are no longer direct ports of Word for Windows, instead featuring a mixture of ported code and native code. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="File_formats">File formats</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: File formats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="width:314px"><caption class="infobox-title">Native file formats</caption><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Doc_(computing)" title="Doc (computing)">DOC</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Legacy Word document</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">DOT</th><td class="infobox-data">Legacy Word templates</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">WBK</th><td class="infobox-data">Legacy Word document backup</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">DOCX</th><td class="infobox-data">XML Word document</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">DOCM</th><td class="infobox-data">XML Word macro-enabled document</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">DOTX</th><td class="infobox-data">XML Word template</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">DOTM</th><td class="infobox-data">XML Word macro-enabled template</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">DOCB</th><td class="infobox-data">XML Word binary document</td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Filename_extensions">Filename extensions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Filename extensions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Microsoft Word's native file formats are denoted either by a <code>.doc</code> or <code>.docx</code> <a href="/wiki/Filename_extension" title="Filename extension">filename extension</a>. </p><p>Although the <a href="/wiki/Doc_(computing)" title="Doc (computing)"><code>.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">'"`UNIQ--templatestyles-00000040-QINU`"'</style><span class="tmp-color" style="color:blue">doc</span></code></a> extension has been used in many different versions of Word, it actually encompasses four distinct file formats: </p> <ol><li>Word for DOS</li> <li>Word for Windows 1 and 2; Word 3 and 4 for Mac OS</li> <li>Word 6 and Word 95 for Windows; Word 6 for Mac OS</li> <li>Word 97 and later for Windows; Word 98 and later for Mac OS</li></ol> <p>(The <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">classic Mac OS</a> of the era did not use filename extensions.)<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The newer <code>.docx</code> extension signifies the <a href="/wiki/Standardization_of_Office_Open_XML" title="Standardization of Office Open XML">Office Open XML international standard</a> for Office documents and is used by default by Word 2007 and later for Windows as well as Word 2008 and later for macOS.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Binary_formats_(Word_97–2007)"><span id="Binary_formats_.28Word_97.E2.80.932007.29"></span>Binary formats (Word 97–2007)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Binary formats (Word 97–2007)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the late 1990s and early 2000s, the default Word document format (<a href="/wiki/DOC_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="DOC (computing)">.DOC</a>) became a <i>de facto</i> standard of <a href="/wiki/Document_file_format" title="Document file format">document file formats</a> for Microsoft Office users.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> There are different versions of "Word Document Format" used by default in Word 97–2007.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Each binary word file is a <a href="/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format" title="Compound File Binary Format">Compound File</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> a hierarchical <a href="/wiki/File_system" title="File system">file system</a> within a file. According to <a href="/wiki/Joel_Spolsky" title="Joel Spolsky">Joel Spolsky</a>, Word Binary File Format is extremely complex mainly because its developers had to accommodate an overwhelming number of features and prioritize performance over anything else.<sup id="cite_ref-spolsky-commentry_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-spolsky-commentry-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As with all OLE Compound Files, Word Binary Format consists of "storages", which are analogous to <a href="/wiki/Folder_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Folder (computing)">computer folders</a>, and "streams", which are similar to <a href="/wiki/Computer_file" title="Computer file">computer files</a>. Each storage may contain streams or other storage. Each Word Binary File must contain a stream called the "WordDocument" stream and this stream must start with a File Information Block (FIB).<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> FIB serves as the first point of reference for locating everything else, such as where the text in a Word document starts, ends, what version of Word created the document and other attributes. </p><p>Word 2007 and later continue to support the DOC file format, although it is no longer the default. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="XML_Document_(Word_2003)"><span id="XML_Document_.28Word_2003.29"></span>XML Document (Word 2003)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: XML Document (Word 2003)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats" title="Microsoft Office XML formats">Microsoft Office XML formats</a></div><p>The .docx XML format introduced in Word 2003<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was a simple, <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>-based format called <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XML_formats#File_formats" title="Microsoft Office XML formats">WordProcessingML or WordML.</a> </p><p>The <b>Microsoft Office XML formats</b> are <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>-based document formats (or <a href="/wiki/XML_schema" title="XML schema">XML schemas</a>) introduced in versions of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office</a> prior to <a href="/wiki/Office_2007" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2007">Office 2007</a>. <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_XP" title="Microsoft Office XP">Microsoft Office XP</a> introduced a new XML format for storing Excel spreadsheets and Office 2003 added an XML-based format for Word documents. </p><p>These formats were succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Office_Open_XML" title="Office Open XML">Office Open XML</a> (ECMA-376) in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2007" title="Microsoft Office 2007">Microsoft Office 2007</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cross-version_compatibility">Cross-version compatibility</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Cross-version compatibility"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Opening a Word Document file in a version of Word other than the one with which it was created can cause an incorrect display of the document. The document formats of the various versions change in subtle and not-so-subtle ways (such as changing the font or the handling of more complex tasks like footnotes). Formatting created in newer versions does not always survive when viewed in older versions of the program, nearly always because that capability does not exist in the previous version.<sup id="cite_ref-casson_ryan_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-casson_ryan-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rich_Text_Format" title="Rich Text Format">Rich Text Format</a> (RTF), an early effort to create a format for interchanging formatted text between applications, is an optional format for Word that retains most formatting and all content of the original document. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Third-party_formats">Third-party formats</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Third-party formats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Plugin_(computing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Plugin (computing)">Plugins</a> permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as <a href="/wiki/International_standard" title="International standard">international standard</a> <a href="/wiki/OpenDocument" title="OpenDocument">OpenDocument</a> format (ODF) (ISO/IEC 26300:2006), are available. Up until the release of <a href="/wiki/Windows_XP#Service_packs" title="Windows XP">Service Pack 2</a> (SP2) for Office 2007, Word did not natively support reading or writing ODF documents without a plugin, namely the SUN ODF Plugin or the OpenXML/ODF Translator. With SP2 installed, ODF format 1.1 documents can be read and saved like any other supported format in addition to those already available in Word 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-casson_ryan_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-casson_ryan-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The implementation faces <a href="/wiki/OpenDocument_software#Microsoft_Office_2007_SP2_support_controversy" class="mw-redirect" title="OpenDocument software">substantial criticism</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/ODF_Alliance" class="mw-redirect" title="ODF Alliance">ODF Alliance</a> and others have claimed that the third-party plugins provide better support.<sup id="cite_ref-sp2-fact-sheet_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sp2-fact-sheet-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Microsoft later declared that the ODF support has some limitations.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2005, one year before the Microsoft Office 2007 suite was released, Microsoft declared that there was insufficient demand from Microsoft customers for the international standard OpenDocument format support and that therefore it would not be included in Microsoft Office 2007. This statement was repeated in the following months.<sup id="cite_ref-office12-pdf_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office12-pdf-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-odf-must_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odf-must-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-gates-odf_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gates-odf-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-odf_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odf-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As an answer, on October 20, 2005, an online petition was created to demand ODF support from Microsoft.<sup id="cite_ref-petition_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-petition-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2006, the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office was released by the OpenDocument Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-mso-odf-plugin_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mso-odf-plugin-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Microsoft declared that it had no relationship with the developers of the plugin.<sup id="cite_ref-odf_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-odf-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2006, Microsoft announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project – tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format (ODF). This work was started in response to government requests for interoperability with ODF. The goal of the project was not to add ODF support to Microsoft Office, but only to create a plugin and an external toolset.<sup id="cite_ref-ms-odf-plugin_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ms-odf-plugin-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In February 2007, this project released a first version of the ODF plugin for Microsoft Word.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2007, Sun released an initial version of its ODF plugin for Microsoft Office.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Version 1.0 was released in July 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Microsoft Word 2007 (Service Pack 1) supports (for output only) <a href="/wiki/Portable_Document_Format" class="mw-redirect" title="Portable Document Format">PDF</a> and <a href="/wiki/XML_Paper_Specification" class="mw-redirect" title="XML Paper Specification">XPS</a> formats, but only after manual installation of the Microsoft "Save as PDF or XPS" add-on.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On later releases, this was offered by default. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=8" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output 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class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Microsoft_Word" title="Special:EditPage/Microsoft Word">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" 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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text. It supports creating <a href="/wiki/Table_(information)" title="Table (information)">tables</a>. Depending on the version, it can perform simple and complex calculations, and supports formatting <a href="/wiki/Formula" title="Formula">formulas</a> and <a href="/wiki/Equation" title="Equation">equations</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The following are some aspects of its feature set. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Templates">Templates</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: Templates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several later versions of Word include the ability for users to create their own formatting templates, allowing them to define a file in which: the title, heading, paragraph, and other element designs differ from the standard Word templates.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Users can find how to do this under the Help section located near the top right corner (Word 2013 on <a href="/wiki/Windows_8" title="Windows 8">Windows 8</a>). </p><p>For example, <b>Normal.dotm</b> is the master <a href="/wiki/Template_(word_processing)" title="Template (word processing)">template</a> from which all Word documents are created. It determines the <a href="/wiki/Margin_(typography)" title="Margin (typography)">margin</a> defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although Normal.dotm is already set with certain defaults, the user can change it to new defaults. This will change other documents which were created using the template.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was previously Normal.dot.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Image_formats">Image formats</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Image formats"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as <a href="/wiki/JPEG" title="JPEG">JPG</a> and <a href="/wiki/GIF" title="GIF">GIF</a>. It can also be used to create and display simple line art. Microsoft Word added support<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> for the common <a href="/wiki/Scalable_vector_graphics" class="mw-redirect" title="Scalable vector graphics">SVG</a> vector image format in 2017 for <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_365" title="Microsoft 365">Office 365</a> ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was also included in the Office 2019 release.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="WordArt">WordArt</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: WordArt"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/WordArt" class="mw-redirect" title="WordArt">WordArt</a></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:WordArt.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/WordArt.png/164px-WordArt.png" decoding="async" width="164" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/WordArt.png/246px-WordArt.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/WordArt.png/328px-WordArt.png 2x" data-file-width="455" data-file-height="417" /></a><figcaption>An example image created with WordArt</figcaption></figure> <p>WordArt enables drawing text in a Microsoft Word document such as a title, watermark, or other text, with graphical effects such as skewing, shadowing, rotating, stretching in a variety of shapes and colors, and even including three-dimensional effects. Users can apply formatting effects such as shadow, bevel, glow, and reflection to their document text as easily as applying bold or underline. Users can also spell-check text that uses visual effects and add text effects to paragraph styles. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Macros">Macros</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Macros"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Macro_(computer_science)" title="Macro (computer science)">macro</a> is a rule of pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence according to a defined process. Frequently used or repetitive sequences of keystrokes and mouse movements can be automated. Like other <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office</a> documents, Word files can include advanced macros and even embedded programs. The language was originally <a href="/wiki/WordBasic" class="mw-redirect" title="WordBasic">WordBasic</a>, but changed to <a href="/wiki/Visual_Basic_for_Applications" title="Visual Basic for Applications">Visual Basic for Applications</a> as of Word 97. </p><p>This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate <a href="/wiki/Computer_virus" title="Computer virus">viruses</a> in documents. The tendency for people to exchange Word documents via email, <a href="/wiki/USB_flash_drive" title="USB flash drive">USB flash drives</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Floppy_disk" title="Floppy disk">floppy disks</a> made this an especially attractive vector in 1999. A prominent example was the <a href="/wiki/Melissa_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="Melissa virus">Melissa virus</a>, but countless others have existed. </p><p>These macro viruses were the only known cross-platform threats between Windows and Macintosh computers and they were the only infection vectors to affect any <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a> system up until the advent of <a href="/wiki/Zlob_trojan" title="Zlob trojan">video codec trojans</a> in 2007.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Microsoft released patches for Word X and Word 2004 that effectively eliminated the macro problem on the Mac by 2006. </p><p>Word's macro security setting, which regulates when macros may execute, can be adjusted by the user, but in the most recent versions of Word, it is set to HIGH by default, generally reducing the risk from macro-based viruses, which have become uncommon. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Layout_issues">Layout issues</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Layout issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before Word 2010 (Word 14) for Windows, the program was unable to correctly handle <a href="/wiki/Ligature_(typography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ligature (typography)">ligatures</a> defined in <a href="/wiki/OpenType" title="OpenType">OpenType</a> fonts.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Those ligature glyphs with <a href="/wiki/Unicode" title="Unicode">Unicode</a> codepoints may be inserted manually, but are not recognized by Word for what they are, breaking spell checking, while custom ligatures present in the font are not accessible at all. Since Word 2010, the program now has advanced <a href="/wiki/Typesetting" title="Typesetting">typesetting</a> features which can be enabled,<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/OpenType" title="OpenType">OpenType</a> ligatures,<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kerning" title="Kerning">kerning</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hyphenation_algorithm" class="mw-redirect" title="Hyphenation algorithm">hyphenation</a> (previous versions already had the latter two features). Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces. Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Word 2004 for Mac OS X, support of <a href="/wiki/Complex_scripts" class="mw-redirect" title="Complex scripts">complex scripts</a> was inferior even to Word 97<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and Word 2004 did not support <a href="/wiki/Apple_Advanced_Typography" title="Apple Advanced Typography">Apple Advanced Typography</a> features like ligatures or glyph variants.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Issues_with_technical_documents">Issues with technical documents</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=14" title="Edit section: Issues with technical documents"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Microsoft Word is only partially suitable for some kinds of technical writing, specifically, that which requires mathematical equations,<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> figure placement, table placement and cross-references to any of these items.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> The usual workaround for equations is to use a third-party equation typesetter.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> Figures and tables must be placed manually; there is an anchor mechanism but it is not designed for fully automatic figure placement and editing text after placing figures and tables often requires re-placing those items by moving the anchor point and even then the placement options are limited.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> This problem is deeply baked into Word's structure since 1985 as it does not know where page breaks will occur until the document is printed.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bullets_and_numbering">Bullets and numbering</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: Bullets and numbering"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Microsoft Word supports <a href="/wiki/Bullet_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Bullet list">bullet lists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Numbered_list" class="mw-redirect" title="Numbered list">numbered lists</a>. It also features a numbering system that helps add correct numbers to pages, chapters, headers, footnotes, and entries of tables of content; these numbers automatically change to correct ones as new items are added or existing items are deleted. Bullets and numbering can be applied directly to paragraphs and converted to lists.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Word 97 through 2003, however, had problems adding correct numbers to numbered lists. In particular, a second irrelevant numbered list might have not started with number one but instead resumed numbering after the last numbered list. Although Word 97 supported a hidden marker that said the list numbering must restart afterward, the command to insert this marker (Restart Numbering command) was only added in Word 2003. However, if one were to <a href="/wiki/Cut,_copy,_and_paste" title="Cut, copy, and paste">cut the first item of the listed and paste it</a> as another item (e.g. fifth), then the restart marker would have moved with it and the list would have restarted in the middle instead of at the top.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word continues to default to non-Unicode characters and non-hierarchical bulleting, despite user preference for PowerPoint-style symbol hierarchies (e.g., filled circle/emdash/filled square/endash/emptied circle) and universal compatibility. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="AutoSummarize">AutoSummarize</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=16" title="Edit section: AutoSummarize"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Available in certain versions of Word (e.g., Word 2007), AutoSummarize highlights passages or phrases that it considers valuable and can be a quick way of generating a crude abstract or an executive summary.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The amount of text to be retained can be specified by the user as a percentage of the current amount of text. </p><p>According to Ron Fein of the Word 97 team, AutoSummarize cuts wordy copy to the bone by counting words and ranking sentences. First, AutoSummarize identifies the most common words in the document (barring "a" and "the" and the like) and assigns a "score" to each word – the more frequently a word is used, the higher the score. Then, it "averages" each sentence by adding the scores of its words and dividing the sum by the number of words in the sentence – the higher the average, the higher the rank of the sentence. "It's like the ratio of wheat to chaff," explains Fein.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>AutoSummarize was removed from Microsoft Word for Mac OS X 2011, although it was present in Word for Mac 2008. AutoSummarize was removed from the Office 2010 release version (14) as well.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spike">Spike</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=17" title="Edit section: Spike"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Spike</b> is a specialized <a href="/wiki/Cut-and-paste" class="mw-redirect" title="Cut-and-paste">cut</a> command in Microsoft Word. It is named after an implement in restaurants on which receipts are impaled, and similarly sequentially stores data to be pasted and adds them together to the document when the second function step, or paste, is performed. Please note that spiking (CONTROL–F3) performs a cut function, which can be immediately undone to simulate a "copy" command, while the pasting function (SHIFT–CONTROL–F3) will also clear the data from the spike, although this can be avoided by using alternatives to the three-key shortcut.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hidden_text">Hidden text</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=18" title="Edit section: Hidden text"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Word supports marking selected text as "<a href="/wiki/Hidden_text" title="Hidden text">hidden</a>". Hidden text is text that is stored in the document but is not displayed.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> For example, pages containing large amounts of <a href="/wiki/Markup_language" title="Markup language">markup language</a> text can be made visually more readable during the editing process. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Password_protection">Password protection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=19" title="Edit section: Password protection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-More_citations_needed_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Microsoft_Word" title="Special:EditPage/Microsoft Word">improve this article</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>&#32;in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2024</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_password_protection" title="Microsoft Office password protection">Microsoft Office password protection</a></div> <p>Three password types can be set in Microsoft Word: </p> <ul><li>Password to open a document<sup id="cite_ref-office.com-password-prot_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office.com-password-prot-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Password to modify a document<sup id="cite_ref-office.com-password-prot_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office.com-password-prot-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Password restricting formatting and editing<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The second and third password types were developed by Microsoft for convenient shared use of documents rather than for their protection. There is no <a href="/wiki/Encryption" title="Encryption">encryption</a> of documents that are protected by such passwords and the Microsoft Office protection system saves a <a href="/wiki/Hash_sum" class="mw-redirect" title="Hash sum">hash sum</a> of a password in a document's header where it can be easily accessed and removed by the specialized software. <i>Password to open a document</i> offers much tougher protection that had been steadily enhanced in the subsequent editions of Microsoft Office. </p><p><i>Word 95</i> and all the preceding editions had the weakest protection that utilized a conversion of a password to a 16-bit <a href="/wiki/Encryption_key" class="mw-redirect" title="Encryption key">key</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Key_size" title="Key size">Key length</a> in <i>Word 97</i> and <i>2000</i> was strengthened up to 40 bit. However, modern cracking software allows removing such a password very quickly – a persistent cracking process takes one week at most. Use of <a href="/wiki/Rainbow_tables" class="mw-redirect" title="Rainbow tables">rainbow tables</a> reduces password removal time to several seconds. Some <a href="/wiki/Password_recovery" class="mw-redirect" title="Password recovery">password recovery</a> software can not only remove a password but also find an actual password that was used by a user to encrypt the document using the <a href="/wiki/Brute-force_attack" title="Brute-force attack">brute-force attack</a> approach. Statistically, the possibility of recovering the password depends on the <a href="/wiki/Password_strength" title="Password strength">password strength</a>. </p><p>Word's 2003/XP version default protection remained the same but an option that allowed advanced users to choose a <a href="/wiki/Cryptographic_Service_Provider" title="Cryptographic Service Provider">Cryptographic Service Provider</a> was added.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> If a strong CSP is chosen, guaranteed document decryption becomes unavailable and, therefore, a password can't be removed from the document. Nonetheless, a password can be fairly quickly picked with a brute-force attack, because its speed is still high regardless of the CSP selected. Moreover, since the CSPs are not active by default, their use is limited to advanced users only. </p><p>Word 2007 offers significantly more secure document protection which utilizes the modern <a href="/wiki/Advanced_Encryption_Standard" title="Advanced Encryption Standard">Advanced Encryption Standard</a> (AES) that converts a password to a 128-bit key using a <a href="/wiki/SHA-1" title="SHA-1">SHA-1</a> hash function 50,000 times. It makes password removal impossible (as of today, no computer that can pick the key in a reasonable amount of time exists) and drastically slows the brute-force attack speed down to several hundreds of passwords per second. </p><p>Word's 2010 protection algorithm was not changed apart from the increasing number of SHA-1 conversions up to 100,000 times and consequently, the brute-force attack speed decreased two times more. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Versions_and_platforms">Versions and platforms</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=20" title="Edit section: Versions and platforms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Word_for_Windows">Word for Windows</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=21" title="Edit section: Word for Windows"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MS_Word_2007.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/MS_Word_2007.png/220px-MS_Word_2007.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/MS_Word_2007.png/330px-MS_Word_2007.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/MS_Word_2007.png 2x" data-file-width="387" data-file-height="257" /></a><figcaption>Microsoft Word for Windows (2007)</figcaption></figure> <p>Word for Windows is available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite. Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market. Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a word processor that imports the Word format (see <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Word_Viewer" title="Microsoft Word Viewer">Microsoft Word Viewer</a>). </p><p>Word 6 for <a href="/wiki/Windows_NT" title="Windows NT">Windows NT</a> was the first 32-bit version of the product,<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> released with Microsoft Office for Windows NT around the same time as <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_95" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Windows 95">Windows 95</a>. It was a straightforward port of Word 6.0. Starting with Word 95, each release of Word was named after the year of its release, instead of its version number.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2007 introduced a redesigned user interface that emphasized the most common controls, dividing them into tabs, and adding specific options depending on the context, such as selecting an image or editing a table.<sup id="cite_ref-office2007ui2_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office2007ui2-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> This user interface, called Ribbon, was included in Excel, PowerPoint and Access 2007, and would be later introduced to other Office applications with <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2010" title="Microsoft Office 2010">Office 2010</a> and Windows applications such as Paint and WordPad with <a href="/wiki/Windows_7" title="Windows 7">Windows 7</a>, respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The redesigned interface also includes a toolbar that appears when selecting text, with options for formatting included.<sup id="cite_ref-office2007ui_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office2007ui-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2007 also included the option to save documents as <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Acrobat" title="Adobe Acrobat">Adobe Acrobat</a> or XPS files,<sup id="cite_ref-office2007ui_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-office2007ui-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and upload Word documents like blog posts on services such as WordPress. </p><p>Word 2010 allows the customization of the Ribbon,<sup id="cite_ref-pcmag_office2010_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcmag_office2010-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> adds a Backstage view for file management,<sup id="cite_ref-pcmag_backstage_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcmag_backstage-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> has improved document navigation, allows creation and embedding of screenshots,<sup id="cite_ref-pcmag_word2010_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcmag_word2010-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and integrates with online services such as Microsoft <a href="/wiki/OneDrive" title="OneDrive">OneDrive</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2019 added a dictation function. </p><p>Word 2021 added co-authoring, a visual refresh on the start experience and tabs, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, line focus, an updated draw tab, and support for ODF 1.3. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Word_for_Mac">Word for Mac</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=22" title="Edit section: Word for Mac"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Mac_versions" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office § Mac versions</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Word_for_Mac_screenshot.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/Word_for_Mac_screenshot.png/220px-Word_for_Mac_screenshot.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="123" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/19/Word_for_Mac_screenshot.png/330px-Word_for_Mac_screenshot.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Word_for_Mac_screenshot.png 2x" data-file-width="423" data-file-height="237" /></a><figcaption>Word for Mac running on <a href="/wiki/MacOS_Ventura" title="MacOS Ventura">macOS Ventura</a> (13.2)</figcaption></figure><p>The Mac was introduced on January 24, 1984, and Microsoft introduced Word 1.0 for Mac a year later, on January 18, 1985. The DOS, Mac, and Windows versions are quite different from each other. Only the Mac version was <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> and used a graphical user interface, far ahead of the other platforms. Each platform restarted its version numbering at "1.0".<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There was no version 2 on the Mac, but version 3 came out on January 31, 1987, as described above. Word 4.0 came out on November 6, 1990, and added automatic linking with Excel, the ability to flow text around graphics, and a WYSIWYG page view editing mode. Word 5.1 for Mac, released in 1992 ran on the original 68000 CPU and was the last to be specifically designed as a Macintosh application. The later Word 6 was a Windows port and poorly received. Word 5.1 continued to run well until the last <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">classic Mac OS</a>. Many people continue to run Word 5.1 to this day under an emulated Mac classic system for some of its excellent features, such as document generation and renumbering, or to access their old files. </p><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Microsoft_Word_for_Mac_2011.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Microsoft_Word_for_Mac_2011.png/220px-Microsoft_Word_for_Mac_2011.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Microsoft_Word_for_Mac_2011.png/330px-Microsoft_Word_for_Mac_2011.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Microsoft_Word_for_Mac_2011.png 2x" data-file-width="371" data-file-height="268" /></a><figcaption>Microsoft Word 2011 running on OS X</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1997, Microsoft formed the <a href="/wiki/Macintosh_Business_Unit" class="mw-redirect" title="Macintosh Business Unit">Macintosh Business Unit</a> as an independent group within Microsoft focused on writing software for the classic Mac OS. Its first version of Word, Word 98, was released with Office 98 Macintosh Edition. Document compatibility reached parity with Word 97,<sup id="cite_ref-ugeek_97_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ugeek_97-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and it included features from Word 97 for Windows, including spell and grammar checking with squiggles.<sup id="cite_ref-appleinsider_history_97-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appleinsider_history-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Users could choose the menus and keyboard shortcuts to be similar to either Word 97 for Windows or Word 5 for Mac. </p><p>Word 2001, released in 2000, added a few new features, including the <a href="/wiki/Clipboard_manager" title="Clipboard manager">Office Clipboard</a>, which allowed users to copy and paste multiple items.<sup id="cite_ref-atpm_98-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-atpm-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was the last version to run on the classic Mac OS and, on <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">Mac OS X</a>, it could only run within the <a href="/wiki/Classic_Environment" class="mw-redirect" title="Classic Environment">Classic Environment</a>. Word X, released in 2001, was the first version to run natively on, and to require, Mac OS X,<sup id="cite_ref-appleinsider_history_97-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appleinsider_history-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and introduced non-contiguous text selection.<sup id="cite_ref-macworld_wordx_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macworld_wordx-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2004 was released in May 2004. It included a new Notebook Layout view for taking notes either by typing or by voice.<sup id="cite_ref-macworld_2004_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macworld_2004-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Other features, such as tracking changes, were made more similar with Office for Windows.<sup id="cite_ref-macnn_2004_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macnn_2004-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2008, released on January 15, 2008, included a Ribbon-like feature, called the Elements Gallery, that can be used to select page layouts and insert custom diagrams and images. It also included a new view focused on publishing layout, integrated bibliography management,<sup id="cite_ref-appleinsider_word2008_1_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appleinsider_word2008_1-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and native support for the new Office Open XML format. It was the first version to run natively on Intel-based Macs.<sup id="cite_ref-appleinsider_2008_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appleinsider_2008-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2011, released in October 2010, replaced the Elements Gallery in favor of a Ribbon user interface that is much more similar to Office for Windows,<sup id="cite_ref-appleinsider_ribbon_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appleinsider_ribbon-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and includes a full-screen mode that allows users to focus on reading and writing documents, and support for <a href="/wiki/Office_Web_Apps" class="mw-redirect" title="Office Web Apps">Office Web Apps</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-appleinsider_2011_2_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-appleinsider_2011_2-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word 2021 added real-time co-authoring, automatic cloud saving, dark mode, immersive reader enhancements, line focus, a visual refresh, the ability to save pictures in SVG format, and a new Sketched style outline. </p><p>Word 2024, released on September 16, 2024, included Word session recovery, support for ODF 1.4, new theme and color palette and ability for easier collaboration. Even though collaboration features were also available in Microsoft Word 2021 as part of post release update, they were not available in Word LTSC 2021 or Word LTSC 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Write_for_Atari_ST">Write for Atari ST</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=23" title="Edit section: Write for Atari ST"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Word#Write_for_Atari_ST" title="History of Microsoft Word">History of Microsoft Word §&#160;Write for Atari ST</a></div><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MS_Write_on_Atari_ST.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/MS_Write_on_Atari_ST.png/220px-MS_Write_on_Atari_ST.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="138" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/77/MS_Write_on_Atari_ST.png/330px-MS_Write_on_Atari_ST.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/77/MS_Write_on_Atari_ST.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="250" /></a><figcaption>Microsoft Word on Atari ST was titled Microsoft Write.</figcaption></figure> <p>Microsoft Write for the <a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a> is the Atari version of Microsoft Word 1.05 released for the Apple Macintosh while sharing the same name as the <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Write" title="Microsoft Write">Microsoft Write</a> program included in Windows during the 80s and early 90s.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While the program was announced in 1986, various delays caused the program to arrive in 1988.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Microsoft Write for Atari ST and Microsoft Word for Windows would both make their debut at the 1988 <a href="/wiki/COMDEX" title="COMDEX">COMDEX</a> in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, Georgia alongside their respective booths.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like the Mac version, the Atari version features <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> form (via <a href="/wiki/Graphics_Device_Operating_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphics Device Operating System">GDOS</a>) and used a graphical user interface (via <a href="/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphics Environment Manager">GEM</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Microsoft Write was one of the first Atari word processors that utilizes the GDOS (<a href="/wiki/Graphics_Device_Operating_System" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphics Device Operating System">Graphics Device Operating System</a>) part of GEM (<a href="/wiki/Graphics_Environment_Manager" class="mw-redirect" title="Graphics Environment Manager">Graphics Environment Manager</a>) allowing the word processor to display and print graphic fonts &amp; styles making it a multifont word processor for the Atari ST (a 2nd disk drive was required to run both Microsoft Write and GDOS). Microsoft Write was packaged with GDOS 1.1 and the drivers for the Atari XMM804 dot matrix printer along with 3rd party printers like <a href="/wiki/Epson" title="Epson">Epson</a> FX-80 and <a href="/wiki/Star_Micronics" title="Star Micronics">Star Micronics</a> NB-15 on 4 diskettes (3½ inch format).<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Accompanying the retail packaging was a 206-page slip-cased <a href="/wiki/User_guide" title="User guide">user's manual</a> that was divided into 3 sections: Learning Write, Using Write and Write Reference.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In addition, Microsoft Write also featured a "Help Screen" tool to help a user explore the advanced features of the word processor that earned high praise for its form and presentation.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Write_for_Macintosh">Write for Macintosh</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=24" title="Edit section: Write for Macintosh"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 1987, Microsoft released Microsoft Write for Macintosh. Write is a version of Microsoft Word with limited features that Microsoft hoped would replace aging <a href="/wiki/MacWrite" title="MacWrite">MacWrite</a> in the Macintosh word processor market. Write was priced well below Word, though at the time MacWrite was included with new Macintoshes. Write is best described as Word locked in "Short Menus" mode, and as such it used the same file format so that users could exchange files with absolutely no conversion necessary.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Write did not sell well and was discontinued before the <a href="/wiki/System_7" title="System 7">System 7</a> era. Microsoft Write was part of a short-lived trend for "lightweight" Macintosh word processors initiated by the introduction of the <a href="/wiki/Macintosh_Portable" title="Macintosh Portable">Macintosh Portable</a> and early <a href="/wiki/PowerBook" title="PowerBook">PowerBook</a> systems. Others included <a href="/wiki/LetterPerfect" class="mw-redirect" title="LetterPerfect">LetterPerfect</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nisus_Writer" title="Nisus Writer">Nisus Compact</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Word_on_mobile_platforms">Word on mobile platforms</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=25" title="Edit section: Word on mobile platforms"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png/220px-Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png/330px-Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/5a/Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png/440px-Pocket_Word_on_HPC.png 2x" data-file-width="516" data-file-height="193" /></a><figcaption>Microsoft Pocket Word running on <a href="/wiki/Handheld_PC" title="Handheld PC">Handheld PC 2000</a></figcaption></figure><p> The first mobile versions of Word were released with <a href="/wiki/Windows_CE" title="Windows CE">Windows CE</a> in 1996 on <a href="/wiki/Handheld_PC" title="Handheld PC">Handheld PCs</a><sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and later also on <a href="/wiki/Pocket_PC" title="Pocket PC">Pocket PCs</a>.</p><figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Word_for_Android.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Word_for_Android.png/103px-Word_for_Android.png" decoding="async" width="103" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Word_for_Android.png/155px-Word_for_Android.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/93/Word_for_Android.png/207px-Word_for_Android.png 2x" data-file-width="212" data-file-height="471" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Microsoft_365" title="Microsoft 365">Microsoft 365</a> version of Microsoft Word running on <a href="/wiki/Android_13" title="Android 13">Android 13</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The modern Word Mobile<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> supports basic formatting, such as bolding, changing font size, and changing colors (from red, yellow, or green). It can add comments, but can't edit documents with tracked changes. It can't open password-protected documents; change the typeface, text alignment, or style (normal, heading 1); insert responsive checkboxes; insert pictures; or undo.<sup id="cite_ref-TechHive_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TechHive-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Engadget_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Engadget-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word Mobile is neither able to display nor insert <a href="/wiki/Footnote" class="mw-redirect" title="Footnote">footnotes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Endnote" class="mw-redirect" title="Endnote">endnotes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Page_footer" title="Page footer">page footers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Page_break" title="Page break">page breaks</a>, certain <a href="/wiki/Indentation_(typesetting)" title="Indentation (typesetting)">indentation</a> of lists, and certain <a href="/wiki/Font" title="Font">fonts</a> while working on a document, but retains them if the original document has them.<sup id="cite_ref-Unsupported_Word_Mobile_features_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsupported_Word_Mobile_features-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Word Mobile can insert lists, but doesn't allow to set custom bullet symbols and customize list numbering. In addition to the features of the 2013 version, the 2007 version on Windows Mobile also has the ability to save documents in the <a href="/wiki/Rich_Text_Format" title="Rich Text Format">Rich Text Format</a> and open legacy PSW (Pocket Word).<sup id="cite_ref-Unsupported_Word_Mobile_features_123-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Unsupported_Word_Mobile_features-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Furthermore, it includes a <a href="/wiki/Spell_checker" title="Spell checker">spell checker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Word_count" title="Word count">word count</a> tool, and a "Find and Replace" command. In 2015, Word Mobile became available for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile on <a href="/wiki/Windows_Store" class="mw-redirect" title="Windows Store">Windows Store</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Support for the <a href="/wiki/Windows_10_Mobile" title="Windows 10 Mobile">Windows 10 Mobile</a> version ended on January 12, 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Word for <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a> was released on March 27, 2014<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and for <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a> was released on January 29, 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Word_for_the_web">Word for the web</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=26" title="Edit section: Word for the web"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Office_on_the_web" title="Microsoft Office">Microsoft Office §&#160;Office on the web</a></div> <p>Word for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Word available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint. </p><p>Word for the web lacks some Ribbon tabs, such as Design and Mailings. Mailings allows users to print envelopes and labels and manage mail merge <a href="/wiki/Printing" title="Printing">printing</a> of Word documents.<sup id="cite_ref-pcworld.com_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld.com-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-pcworld.com3_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pcworld.com3-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Word for the web is not able to edit certain objects, such as: equations, shapes, text boxes or drawings, but a placeholder may be present in the document. Certain advanced features like table sorting or columns will not be displayed but are preserved as they were in the document. Other views available in the Word desktop app (Outline, Draft, Web Layout, and Full-Screen Reading) are not available, nor are side-by-side viewing, split windows, and the ruler.<sup id="cite_ref-osupport-word_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-osupport-word-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=27" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Expand_section plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-content" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="[icon]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/20px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/30px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg/40px-Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="44" data-file-height="31" /></a></span></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>needs expansion</b>. You can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Microsoft_Word&amp;action=edit&amp;section=">adding to it</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">December 2021</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>Initial releases of Word were met with criticism. <a href="/wiki/Byte_(magazine)" title="Byte (magazine)">Byte</a> in 1984 criticized the documentation for Word 1.1 and 2.0 for DOS, calling it "a complete farce". It called the software "clever, put together well and performs some extraordinary feats", but concluded that "especially when operated with the mouse, has many more limitations than benefits... extremely frustrating to learn and operate efficiently".<sup id="cite_ref-cameron1984pc_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cameron1984pc-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/PC_Magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="PC Magazine">PC Magazine</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">&#39;s</span> review was very mixed, stating: "I've run into weird word processors before, but this is the first time one's nearly knocked me down for the count" but acknowledging that Word's innovations were the first that caused the reviewer to consider abandoning <a href="/wiki/WordStar" title="WordStar">WordStar</a>. While the review cited an excellent <a href="/wiki/WYSIWYG" title="WYSIWYG">WYSIWYG</a> display, sophisticated print formatting, windows, and footnoting as merits, it criticized many small flaws, very slow performance, and "documentation produced by Madame Sadie's Pain Palace". It concluded that Word was "two releases away from potential greatness".<sup id="cite_ref-manes19840221_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-manes19840221-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Compute!'s Apple Applications</i> in 1987 stated that "despite a certain awkwardness", Word 3.01 "will likely become the major Macintosh word processor" with "far too many features to list here". While criticizing the lack of true WYSIWYG, the magazine concluded that "<i>Word</i> is marvelous. It's like a <a href="/wiki/Mozart" class="mw-redirect" title="Mozart">Mozart</a> or <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Edison</a>, whose occasional gaucherie we excuse because of his great gifts".<sup id="cite_ref-mcneill198712_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mcneill198712-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Compute!" title="Compute!">Compute!</a></i> in 1989 stated that Word 5.0's integration of text and graphics made it "a solid engine for basic desktop publishing". The magazine approved of improvements to text mode, described the $75 price for upgrading from an earlier version as "the deal of the decade" and concluded that "as a high-octane word processor, <i>Word</i> is worth a look".<sup id="cite_ref-nimersheim198912_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nimersheim198912-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the first quarter of 1996, Microsoft Word accounted for 80% of the worldwide word processing market.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013, Microsoft added Word to the new <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_365" title="Microsoft 365">Office 365</a> product, where Microsoft has combined their most popular software,<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span 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.swatch-future{background-color:#143b4b}}</style><div class="templateVersion l version-legend" style=""><div style="display: none;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Legend:</b></span></div><div style="display: flex;" class="legend-item"><span class="swatch swatch-unsupported"></span>Old version, not maintained</div><div style="display: flex;" class="legend-item"><span class="swatch swatch-maintained"></span>Old version, still maintained</div><div style="display: flex;" class="legend-item"><span class="swatch swatch-latest"></span><b>Latest version</b></div><div style="display: none;" class="legend-item"><span class="swatch swatch-preview"></span>Latest preview version</div><div style="display: none;" class="legend-item"><span class="swatch swatch-future"></span>Future version</div></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Word_2010.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Word_2010.png/220px-Word_2010.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2a/Word_2010.png/330px-Word_2010.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/Word_2010.png 2x" data-file-width="377" data-file-height="264" /></a><figcaption>Microsoft Word 2010 running on Windows 7</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Microsoft Word for Windows release history </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year released </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Version </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Comments </th></tr> <tr> <td>1989 </td> <td>Word for Windows 1.0 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 1.0 </td> <td>Code-named Opus<sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td>Word for Windows 1.1 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.1"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 1.1 </td> <td>For <a href="/wiki/Windows_3.0" title="Windows 3.0">Windows 3.0</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Code-named <a href="/wiki/Bill_the_Cat" title="Bill the Cat">Bill the Cat</a> <sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (March 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>&#93;</sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td>Word for Windows 1.1a </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.1a"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 1.1a </td> <td>On March 25, 2014, Microsoft made the <a href="/wiki/Source_code" title="Source code">source code</a> to Word for Windows 1.1a <a href="/wiki/Source-available" class="mw-redirect" title="Source-available">available</a> to the public via the <a href="/wiki/Computer_History_Museum" title="Computer History Museum">Computer History Museum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-139" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td>Word for Windows 2.0 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 2.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_3.0" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 3.0">Office 3.0</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td>Word for Windows 6.0 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 6.0 </td> <td>Version numbers 3, 4, and 5 were skipped, to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS, Mac OS, and <a href="/wiki/WordPerfect" title="WordPerfect">WordPerfect</a> (the main competing word processor at the time). Also, a 32-bit version for <a href="/wiki/Windows_NT" title="Windows NT">Windows NT</a> only. Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_4.x" title="Microsoft Office 4.x">Office 4.0, 4.2, and 4.3</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td>Word for Windows 95 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="7.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 7.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_95" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 95">Office 95</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1997 </td> <td>Word 97 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="8.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 8.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_97" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 97">Office 97</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td>Word 98 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="8.5"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 8.5 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_97" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 97">Office 97</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td>Word 2000 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="9.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 9.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_2000" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2000">Office 2000</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td>Word 2002 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="10.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 10.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_XP" class="mw-redirect" title="Office XP">Office XP</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2003 </td> <td>Office Word 2003 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="11.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 11.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_2003" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2003">Office 2003</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td>Office Word 2007 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="12.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 12.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_2007" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2007">Office 2007</a>; released to businesses on November 30, 2006, released worldwide to consumers on January 30, 2007. Extended support until October 10, 2017. </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010 </td> <td>Word 2010 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="14.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 14.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2010">Office 2010</a>; skipped 13.0 due to <a href="/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia" title="Triskaidekaphobia">triskaidekaphobia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Office13Avoid_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Office13Avoid-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013 </td> <td>Word 2013 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="15.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 15.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_2013" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2013">Office 2013</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016 </td> <td>Word 2016 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="16.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 16.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Office_2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2016">Office 2016</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td>Word 2019 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="17.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 17.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2019" title="Microsoft Office 2019">Microsoft Office 2019</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <td>Word 2021 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="17.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, still maintained:</span> 17.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2021" title="Microsoft Office 2021">Microsoft Office 2021</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024 </td> <td>Word 2024 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion c swatch-latest" title="Latest version" data-sort-value="17.0"><span style="display: none;">Latest version:</span> <b>17.0</b> </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2024" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Office 2024">Microsoft Office 2024</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Microsoft Word for classic Mac OS and macOS release history </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year released </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Version </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Comments </th></tr> <tr> <td>1985 </td> <td>Word 1 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 1.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <td>Word 3 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 3.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1989 </td> <td>Word 4 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 4.0 </td> <td>Part of Office 1.0 and 1.5 </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td>Word 5 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 5.0 </td> <td> <ul><li>Part of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_3.0" title="Microsoft Office 3.0">Office 3.0</a></li> <li>Requires System 6.0.2, 512 KB of RAM (1 MB for 5.1, 2 MB to use spell check and thesaurus), 6.5 MB available hard drive space<sup id="cite_ref-lowendmac_history_25-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowendmac_history-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td>Word 5.1 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.1"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 5.1 </td> <td> <ul><li>Part of Office 3.0</li> <li>Last version to support 68000-based Macs<sup id="cite_ref-lowendmac_history_25-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowendmac_history-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td>Word 6 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 6.0 </td> <td> <ul><li>Part of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_4.x" title="Microsoft Office 4.x">Office 4.2</a></li> <li>Shares code and user interface with Word for Windows 6</li> <li>Requires System 7.0, 4 MB of RAM (8 MB recommended), at least 10 MB available hard drive space, 68020 CPU<sup id="cite_ref-lowendmac_history_25-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lowendmac_history-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td>Word 98 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="8.5"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 8.5 </td> <td> <ul><li>Part of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_98_Macintosh_Edition" title="Microsoft Office 98 Macintosh Edition">Office 98 Macintosh Edition</a></li> <li>Requires PowerPC-based Macintosh</li> <li>Renumbered alongside contemporary Windows version</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <td>Word 2001 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="9.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 9.0 </td> <td> <ul><li>Part of <a href="/wiki/Office_2001" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2001">Microsoft Office 2001</a></li> <li>Word 2001 is the last version that is compatible with <a href="/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS" title="Classic Mac OS">Classic Mac OS</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_9" title="Mac OS 9">Mac OS 9</a> or earlier)</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2001 </td> <td>Word v. X </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="10.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 10.0 </td> <td> <ul><li>Part of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_v._X" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Office v. X">Office v. X</a></li> <li>First version for <a href="/wiki/Mac_OS_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Mac OS X">Mac OS X</a> only</li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004 </td> <td>Word 2004 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="11.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 11.0 </td> <td>Part of <a href="/wiki/Office_2004_for_Mac" class="mw-redirect" title="Office 2004 for Mac">Office 2004</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td>Word 2008 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="12.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 12.0 </td> <td>Part of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2008_for_Mac" title="Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac">Office 2008</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010 </td> <td>Word 2011 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="14.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 14.0 </td> <td>Part of Office 2011; skipped 13.0 due to <a href="/wiki/Triskaidekaphobia" title="Triskaidekaphobia">triskaidekaphobia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Office13Avoid_141-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Office13Avoid-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td>Word 2016 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="16.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 16.0 </td> <td>Part of <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2016" title="Microsoft Office 2016">Office 2016</a>; skipped 15.0 </td></tr> <tr> <td>2019 </td> <td>Word 2019 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="17.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 17.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2019" title="Microsoft Office 2019">Microsoft Office 2019</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2021 </td> <td>Word 2021 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="17.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, still maintained:</span> 17.0 </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2021" title="Microsoft Office 2021">Microsoft Office 2021</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2024 </td> <td>Word 2024 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion c swatch-latest" title="Latest version" data-sort-value="17.0"><span style="display: none;">Latest version:</span> <b>17.0</b> </td> <td>Included in <a href="/wiki/Microsoft_Office_2024" class="mw-redirect" title="Microsoft Office 2024">Microsoft Office 2024</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Word for <a href="/wiki/MS-DOS" title="MS-DOS">MS-DOS</a> release history </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year released </th> <th>Name </th> <th>Version </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Comments </th></tr> <tr> <td>1983 </td> <td>Word 1 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 1.0 </td> <td>Initial version of Word </td></tr> <tr> <td>1985 </td> <td>Word 2 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 2.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1986 </td> <td>Word 3 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 3.0 </td> <td>Removed copy protection </td></tr> <tr> <td>1987 </td> <td>Word 4 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 4.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1989 </td> <td>Word 5 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 5.0 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td>Word 5.1 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.1"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 5.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td>Word 5.5 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.5"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 5.5 </td> <td>First DOS version to use a Windows-like user interface </td></tr> <tr> <td>1993 </td> <td>Word 6 </td> <td style="color: var(--color-base, #202122);" class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0"><span style="display: none;">Old version, not maintained:</span> 6.0 </td> <td>Last DOS version. </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable"> <caption>Word release history on other platforms </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Platform </th> <th>Year released </th> <th>Name </th> <th scope="col" class="unsortable">Comments </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Atari_ST" title="Atari ST">Atari ST</a> </td> <td>1988 </td> <td>Microsoft Write </td> <td>Based on Microsoft Word 1.05 for Mac OS </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> </td> <td>1989 </td> <td>Microsoft Word 5.0 </td> <td>Word 5.0 for DOS is a "family mode" application capable of running as a native app on either MS-DOS or 16-bit OS/2. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> </td> <td>1991 </td> <td>Microsoft Word 5.5 </td> <td>Word 5.5 for DOS is a "family mode" application capable of running as a native app on either MS-DOS or 16-bit OS/2. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> </td> <td>1990 </td> <td>Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.1 </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OS/2" title="OS/2">OS/2</a> </td> <td>1991 </td> <td>Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.2<sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span 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