Start getting more done from anywhere with familiar Office apps, across all your favorite devices. The tools you use every day, now even better with Microsoft Are you still using an older version of Office? Buy now For home For business. Microsoft Word is part of the Office suite and is installed when you install Office. If you have an older version of Microsoft Office installed on computers in your office, uninstalling it is optional. When you install the latest version of Microsoft Office on your computer, you're adding a new application instead of upgrading any existing ones.
This means you end up having both the new version and the old version installed on the computer. Rise to popularity The first ever version of Microsoft Word - Word 1. Version 2. Recent new features of Word include: Translator - Word can now translate words and sentences into other languages using the Microsoft Translator tool, which sits under the Review tab. Learning Tools - this feature helps make your documents easy to comprehend and helps with reading fluency.
Use it to change column width for improved focus, page colour so the page can be scanned with less eye strain, and show breaks between syllables to improve word recognition and pronunciation. You can also use this tool to read your document aloud to you. Digital pen - if you have a touch-enabled device, the latest version of Word and other Office products lets you draw with your finger, a mouse or a digital pen for easy annotation and note-taking.
Icons and SVGs scalable vector graphics - Word now has a library of icons and 3D images which can be inserted into documents to make them more visually appealing and to make an impact. Users can change colours and apply effects. Beginning with the version, the branding was revised to emphasize Word's identity as a component within the Office suite: Microsoft began calling it Microsoft Office Word instead of merely Microsoft Word.
Nomenclature usage in the wild is currently in flux, with both names being commonly used. The latest release is Word On February 1, , development on what was originally named Multi-Tool Word began. Free demonstration copies of the application were bundled with the November issue of PC World, making it the first program to be distributed on-disk with a magazine. However, it was not well received, and sales lagged behind those of rival products such as WordPerfect.
Word made full use of the mouse, which was so unusual at the time that Microsoft offered a bundled Word-with-Mouse package. Although MS-DOS was a character-based system, Microsoft Word was the first word processor for the IBM PC that showed actual line breaks and typeface markups such as bold and italics directly on the screen while editing, although this was not a true WYSIWYG system because available displays did not have the resolution to show actual typefaces.
Other DOS word processors, such as WordStar and WordPerfect, used simple text-only display with markup codes on the screen or sometimes, at the most, alternative colors.
As with most DOS software, each program had its own, often complicated, set of commands and nomenclature for performing functions that had to be learned. As most secretaries had learned how to use WordPerfect, companies were reluctant to switch to a rival product that offered few advantages. Desired features in Word such as indentation before typing emulating the F4 feature in WordPerfect , the ability to block text to copy it before typing, instead of picking up mouse or blocking after typing, and a reliable way to have macros and other functions always replicate the same function time after time, were just some of Word's problems for production typing.
Word for Macintosh, despite the major differences in look and feel from the DOS version, was ported by Ken Shapiro with only minor changes from the DOS source code, which had been written with high-resolution displays and laser printers in mind although none were yet available to the general public.
After Word for Mac was released in , it gained wide acceptance. There was no Word 2. The second release of Word for Macintosh , named Word 3. It included numerous internal enhancements and new features but was plagued with bugs. Within a few months Word 3.
All registered users of 3. Word 4. The first version of Word for Windows was released in at a price of US dollars. With the release of Windows 3. The failure of WordPerfect to produce a Windows version proved a fatal mistake. It was version 2. After MacWrite, Word for Macintosh never had any serious rivals, although programs such as Nisus Writer provided features such as non-contiguous selection which were not added until Word in Office XP. In addition, many users complained that major updates reliably came more than two years apart, too long for most business users at that time.
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