An Introduction to MS Word

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Micro-Soft word is a word processor developed by Microsoft Corporation. Using this word processor you can create, edit and print documents according to your requirement. Auto correct, spelling and grammar checking, text formatting, mail merge, graphics, table etc., are some of the features of. MS Word. In this unit you will learn to how create your own document and format the text according to your requirements.

Microsoft Word, word-processor software launched in February 1, 1983 by the Microsoft Corporation. Software developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi joined the Microsoft team in 1981, and in 1983 they released Multi-Tool Word for computers that ran a version of the UNIX operating system (OS). This program was initially named “Multi-Tool Word” but later, was renamed as MS Word. Having renamed it Microsoft Word, Microsoft released the program October 25, 1983, for the IBM PC. The extension for previous version of MS Word 2007 file is “.doc” and “.docx” is the default extension of Microsoft Word 2007 and above. “.doc” is a binary format and “.docx” is based on “.xml”. “.docx” file is actually a zip file with all the XML files associated with the document.