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 Microsoft Word

Sometimes called Win word, MS Word, or Word, Microsoft Word is a word processor published
by Microsoft. It is one of the office productivity applications included in the Microsoft Office suite.
Originally developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, it was first released in 1983.

Microsoft Word is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, Android, and Apple iOS. It can also
run on the Linux operating system using WINE.

What is Microsoft Word used for?

Microsoft Word allows you to create professional-quality documents, reports, letters, and résumés.
Unlike a plain text editor, Microsoft Word has features including spell check, grammar check, text
and font formatting, HTML support, image support, advanced page layout, and more.

What does the Microsoft Word editor look like?Below is an overview of a Microsoft Word

2010 document.

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 Where do you find or start Microsoft Word?

If you have Microsoft Word or the entire Microsoft Office package installed on Microsoft
Windows, you can find Microsoft Word in your Start menu.

Keep in mind that new computers do not include Microsoft Word. It must be purchased and installed
before running it on your computer. If you do not want (or cannot afford) to purchase Microsoft Word,
you can use a limited version for free at the Microsoft Office website.

If Microsoft Word is installed on your computer, but you can't find it in your Start menu, use the
following steps to launch Microsoft Word manually.

Open My Computer.

Click on or select the C: drive. If Microsoft Office is installed on a drive other than the C: drive,
select that drive instead.

Navigate to the Program Files (x86) folder, then the Microsoft Office folder.

In the Microsoft Office folder, if there is a root folder, open that folder. Then open the OfficeXX folder,
where XX is the version of Office (e.g., Office16 for Microsoft Office 2016). If there is no root folder,
look for and open a folder having "Office" in the name.

Look for a file named WINWORD.EXE and click or double-click that file to start the Microsoft Word
program.

What are the uses of Microsoft Word?

Microsoft Word is a word processor, and, like other word processors, it's capable of helping users
create a variety of different types of documents. For example, users can create a résumé, business
contract, instruction document, or a letter to another person. We've included a list of the top uses of a
word processor on our word processor page.

How many lines are there on a page in Microsoft Word?

By default, there are 29 lines on one page in Microsoft Word.

What type of files can Microsoft Word create and use?

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Early versions of Microsoft Word primarily created and used the .doc file extension, while newer versions
of Word create and use the .docx file extension.

More recent versions of Microsoft Word can create and open the following types of
files:

.doc, .docm, .docx

.dot, .dotm, .dotx

.htm, .html

.mht, .mhtml

.odt

.pdf

.rtf

.txt

.wps

.xps

.xml

Example of a Microsoft Word .doc file

You can download an example of a Microsoft Word .doc document by clicking the Microsoft
Word .doc file link.

Why use Word instead of a plain-text editor?

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Microsoft Word offers many features not found in a traditional text editor or a plain-text file. Reasons to
use Microsoft Word instead of a plain-text editor include the ability to change
the formatting (e.g., center), change the font type, size, and color, insert pictures, and much more.

Why use Word instead of a WordPad?

A rich-text editor, like WordPad, offers many of the same basic features as Microsoft Word. Where
Microsoft Word differs is the ability to do more advanced features. Some of the advanced features
include mail merges, spellchecker, styles, tables, headers & footers, WordArt, columns, margins, and
more.

What are the different versions of Microsoft Word?

Microsoft Word has had several versions throughout its history. The different releases, along with
release dates are listed below.

How does Microsoft Word function?

When you open up a Microsoft Word file for the very first time, you are greeted with a blank, A4
sized sheet, in either a landscape or portrait orientation, which is yours to use as you please. You can input
content onto this sheet by simply typing on the keyboard, but this is fairly basic stuff.

The real fun comes when you explore the toolbars on the top of the window, which allow you to do so
many additional functions, such as adding pictures, tables, messing with types, colors, borders, spacing,
and so much more, truly a writers dream, and a blessing in disguise.

Features and flaws

Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities
for manipulating and editing text. The following are some aspects of its feature set.

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 Templates[edit]

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.[79] Users can find how to do this under the Help section located
near the top right corner (Word 2013 on Windows 8).

For example, Normal.dot is the master template from which all Word documents are created. It
determines the margin defaults as well as the layout of the text and font defaults. Although normal.dot is
already set with certain defaults, the user can change normal.dot to new defaults. This will change other
documents which were created using the template, usually in unexpected ways.[80]

Image formats[edit]

Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also
be used to create and display simple line-art. Microsoft Word added support[81] for the
common SVG vector image format in 2017 for Office 365 ProPlus subscribers and this functionality was
also included in the Office 2019 release.

WordArt

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.

Macros[edit]

A Macro 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 Microsoft

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Office documents, Word files can include advanced macros and even embedded programs. The language
was originally WordBasic, but changed to Visual Basic for Applications as of Word 97.

This extensive functionality can also be used to run and propagate viruses in documents. The tendency for
people to exchange Word documents via email, USB flash drives, and floppy disks made this an
especially attractive vector in 1999. A prominent example was the Melissa virus, but countless others
have existed.

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 macOS system up until the advent
of video codec trojans in 2007. Microsoft released patches for Word X and Word 2004 that effectively
eliminated the macro problem on the Mac by 2006.

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.

Layout issues[edit]

Before Word 2010 (Word 14) for Windows, the program was unable to correctly
handle ligatures defined in OpenType fonts.[82] Those ligature glyphs with Unicode 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 typesetting features which can be enabled:[83] OpenType ligatures,[84] kerning,
and hyphenation. Other layout deficiencies of Word include the inability to set crop marks or thin spaces.
Various third-party workaround utilities have been developed.[85]

In Word 2004 for Mac OS X, support of complex scripts was inferior even to Word 97,[86] and Word
2004 did not support Apple Advanced Typography features like ligatures or glyph variants.[87]

Bullets and numbering[edit]

Microsoft Word supports bullet lists and numbered lists. 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 convert them to lists.[88] Word 97
through 2003, however, had problems adding correct numbers to numbered lists. In particular, a second
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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 cut the first item of the listed and paste it 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.[89]

Users can also create tables in Word. Depending on the version, Word can perform simple calculations —
along with support for formulas and equations as well.

AutoSummarize[edit]

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.[90] The amount of text to be retained can be specified by the user as a percentage of the current
amount of text.

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.[91]

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.[92]

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 Difference Between Wordpad and Microsoft

WordPad is an acronym for a word processor, it is one of the simplest word processors which comes
with most of the versions of windows. It is free for use and it is also built by Microsoft.
Microsoft Word is computer software that has been built by Microsoft for the purpose of word
processing. It supports various operating systems like Windows, Mac, Android etc. It is a paid software
but its trial is available for free to use for a certain time period.

Microsoft Word WordPad

1. Microsoft Word is word-processing computer WordPad is a simple word processing

software that has been built by Microsoft. software/text editor built by Microsoft.
2. It is a paid software with a trial version for It is free software that comes with
users to check the functionality. Windows operating system.
3. It supports Windows 7 and higher. It supports Windows 95 and higher.
4. It comes with MS Office. It is not part of MS Office.
5. It has features like spell check and grammar It lacks features of spell check and
check. grammar check.
6. It can save files in .docx format. It does not have a .docx file saving option.
7. It has a number of formatting options for text. There are not many formatting features
available.
8. Default file format is .doc The default file format is Rich Text Format
(.rtf)

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