A story being written and formatted in Word, running on Windows 10 | |||||
Developer(s) | Microsoft | ||||
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Initial release | October 25, 1983; 35 years ago (as Multi-Tool Word) | ||||
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Platform | IA-32, x64, ARM | ||||
Type | Word processor | ||||
License | Trialware | ||||
Website | products.office.com/word |
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Stable release | 16.29.1 (Build 19091700) / September 18, 2019; 15 days ago[4] |
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Type | Word processor |
License | |
Website | products.office.com/word |
Screenshot of Microsoft Word for Android 16 | |
Developer(s) | Microsoft Corporation |
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Stable release | 16.0.12026.20174 / September 17, 2019; 16 days ago[5] |
Operating system | Android Marshmallow and later |
License | |
Website | products.office.com/word |
Developer(s) | Microsoft Corporation |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | iOS11 and later |
License | |
Website | products.office.com/word |
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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Stable release | 16001.11929.20170.0 / August 20, 2019; 44 days ago |
Operating system | Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile |
Type | Word processor |
License | Trialware |
Website | www.microsoft.com/store/productid/9WZDNCRFJB9S |
Left: The icon for .doc files that comes with Microsoft Office 2019.Right: The icon for .docx files, as seen on Microsoft OneDrive. The icon seen in Microsoft Office 2019 is slightly more colorful. | |
DOC | Legacy Word document |
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DOT | Legacy Word templates |
WBK | Legacy Word document backup |
DOCX | XML Word document |
DOCM | XML Word macro-enabled document |
DOTX | XML Word template |
DOTM | XML Word macro-enabled template |
DOCB | XML Word binary document |
.doc
or .docx
filename extension..doc
extension has been used in many different versions of Word, it actually encompasses four distinct file formats:.docx
extension signifies the Office Open XMLinternational standard for Office documents and is used by Word 2007 and later for Windows, Word 2008 and later for macOS, as well as by a growing number of applications from other vendors, including OpenOffice.org Writer, an open source word processing program.[45][46]Legend: | Old version, no support | Older version, still supported | Current stable version | Latest preview version | Future release |
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Year Released | Name | Version | Comments |
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1989 | Word for Windows 1.0 | Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 | Code-named Opus [96] |
1990 | Word for Windows 1.1 | Old version, no longer supported: 1.1 | For Windows 3.0.[97] Code-named Bill the Cat[citation needed] |
1990 | Word for Windows 1.1a | Old version, no longer supported: 1.1a | On March 25, 2014 Microsoft made the source code to Word for Windows 1.1a available to the public via the Computer History Museum.[98][99] |
1991 | Word for Windows 2.0 | Old version, no longer supported: 2.0 | Included in Office 3.0. |
1993 | Word for Windows 6.0 | Old version, no longer supported: 6.0 | Version numbers 3, 4 and 5 were skipped, to bring Windows version numbering in line with that of DOS Mac OS and WordPerfect (the main competing word processor at the time). Also a 32-bit version for Windows NT only. Included in Office 4.0, 4.2, and 4.3. |
1995 | Word for Windows 95 | Old version, no longer supported: 7.0 | Included in Office 95 |
1997 | Word 97 | Old version, no longer supported: 8.0 | Included in Office 97 |
1998 | Word 98 | Old version, no longer supported: 8.5 | Included in Office 97 |
1999 | Word 2000 | Old version, no longer supported: 9.0 | Included in Office 2000 |
2001 | Word 2002 | Old version, no longer supported: 10.0 | Included in Office XP |
2003 | Microsoft Word 2003 | Old version, no longer supported: 11.0 | Included in Office 2003 |
2006 | Microsoft Word 2007 | Old version, no longer supported: 12.0 | Included in Office 2007; released to businesses on November 30, 2006, released worldwide to consumers on January 30, 2007. Extended support until October 10, 2017. |
2010 | Word 2010 | Older version, yet still supported: 14.0 | Included in Office 2010 |
2013 | Word 2013 | Older version, yet still supported: 15.0 | Included in Office 2013 |
2016 | Word 2016 | Older version, yet still supported: 16.0 | Included in Office 2016 |
2019 | Word 2019 | Current stable version:16.0 | Included in Office 2019 |
Year Released | Name | Version | Comments |
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1985 | Word 1 | Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 | |
1987 | Word 3 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.0 | |
1989 | Word 4 | Old version, no longer supported: 4.0 | Part of Office 1.0 and 1.5 |
1991 | Word 5 | Old version, no longer supported: 5.0 |
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1992 | Word 5.1 | Old version, no longer supported: 5.1 |
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1993 | Word 6 | Old version, no longer supported: 6.0 |
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1998 | Word 98 | Old version, no longer supported: 8.5 |
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2000 | Word 2001 | Old version, no longer supported: 9.0 |
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2001 | Word v. X | Old version, no longer supported: 10.0 |
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2004 | Word 2004 | Old version, no longer supported: 11.0 | Part of Office 2004 |
2008 | Word 2008 | Old version, no longer supported: 12.0 | Part of Office 2008 |
2010 | Word 2011 | Old version, no longer supported: 14.0 | Part of Office 2011. Version number 13 was superstitiously skipped because of potential triskaidekaphobia.[100] |
2015 | Word 2016 | Older version, yet still supported: 16.0 | Part of Office 2016. Version number 15 was skipped. |
2019 | Word 2019 | Current stable version:16.0 | Part of Office 2019 |
Year released | Name | Version | Comments |
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1983 | Word 1 | Old version, no longer supported: 1.0 | Initial version of Word |
1985 | Word 2 | Old version, no longer supported: 2.0 | |
1986 | Word 3 | Old version, no longer supported: 3.0 | |
1987 | Word 4 | Old version, no longer supported: 4.0 | |
1989 | Word 5 | Old version, no longer supported: 5.0 | |
1991 | Word 5.1 | Old version, no longer supported: 5.1 | |
1991 | Word 5.5 | Old version, no longer supported: 5.5 | First DOS version to use a Windows-like user interface |
1993 | Word 6 | Old version, no longer supported: 6.0 | Last DOS version. |
Platform | Year released | Name | Comments |
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Atari ST | 1988 | Microsoft Write | Based on Microsoft Word 1.05 for Mac OS |
OS/2 | 1989 | Microsoft Word 5.0 | Word 5.0 ran both under DOS and under OS/2 dual mode as a native OS/2 application |
OS/2 | 1991 | Microsoft Word 5.5 | Word 5.5 ran both under DOS and under OS/2 dual mode as a native OS/2 application |
OS/2 | 1990 | Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.1 | |
OS/2 | 1991 | Microsoft Word for OS/2 Presentation Manager version 1.2 | |
SCO Unix | 1994–1995 | Microsoft Word for Unix version 5.1 |
For a year, I waited for a heavier-duty word processor than MACWRITE. I finally got it— WORD.
Microsoft Excel 2007 will process ODF spreadsheet documents when loaded via the Sun Plug-In 3.0 for Microsoft Office or the SourceForge 'OpenXML/ODF Translator Add-in for Office,' but will fail when using the 'built-in' support provided by Office 2007 SP2.
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