25 Facts About Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word is a word processing software developed by Microsoft.

In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC.

In 1991, Microsoft capitalized on Word for Windows' increasing popularity by releasing a version of Word for DOS, version 5.

Microsoft Word contains rudimentary desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market.

Microsoft 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.

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Microsoft 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.

The later Microsoft Word 6 was a Windows port and poorly received.

In 1997, Microsoft Word formed the Macintosh Business Unit as an independent group within Microsoft Word focused on writing software for Mac OS.

Microsoft Word 2001, released in 2000, added a few new features, including the Office Clipboard, which allowed users to copy and paste multiple items.

Microsoft Word X, released in 2001, was the first version to run natively on, and required, Mac OS X, and introduced non-contiguous text selection.

Microsoft 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, and includes a full-screen mode that allows users to focus on reading and writing documents, and support for Office Web Apps.

Microsoft 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.

FIB serves as the first point of reference for locating everything else, such as where the text in a Microsoft Word document starts, ends, what version of Microsoft Word created the document and other attributes.

Rich Text Format, an early effort to create a format for interchanging formatted text between applications, is an optional format for Microsoft Word that retains most formatting and all content of the original document.

Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Microsoft Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as international standard OpenDocument format, are available.

Microsoft Word later declared that the ODF support has some limitations.

In May 2006, the ODF plugin for Microsoft Word Office was released by the OpenDocument Foundation.

Microsoft Word declared that it had no relationship with the developers of the plugin.

In July 2006, Microsoft Word announced the creation of the Open XML Translator project – tools to build a technical bridge between the Microsoft Word Office Open XML Formats and the OpenDocument Format .

Several later versions of Microsoft Word include the ability for users to create their formatting templates, allowing them to define a file in which: the title, heading, paragraph, and other element designs differ from the standard Microsoft Word templates.

Microsoft Word added support for the common SVG vector image format in 2017 for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was included in the Office 2019 release.

The tendency for people to exchange Microsoft Word documents via email, USB flash drives, and floppy disks made this an especially attractive vector in 1999.

Microsoft Word Mobile is a word processor that allows creating and editing documents.

Microsoft Word Mobile is neither able to display nor insert footnotes, endnotes, page headers, page footers, page breaks, certain indentation of lists, and certain fonts while working on a document, but retains them if the original document has them.

In 2015, Microsoft Word Mobile became available for Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile on Windows Store.

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