Describes the installation requirements to open and save files that are in the Open XML Formats by using earlier versions of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
Installation floppy of Microsoft Word for Systems, version 5.0 (distributed by, ca. The first version of was developed by and, former programmers hired by and in 1981.
Both programmers worked on, the first (What You See Is What You Get). The first Word version, Word 1.0, was released in October 1983 for and; it was followed by four very similar versions that were not very successful.
The first Windows version was released in 1989, with a slightly improved interface. When Windows 3.0 was released in 1990, Word became a huge commercial success. Word for Windows 1.0 was followed by Word 2.0 in 1991 and Word 6.0 in 1993. Then it was renamed to Word 95 and Word 97, Word 2000 and Word for (to follow Windows commercial names).
With the release of Word 2003, the numbering was again year-based. Since then, Word 2007, Word 2010, Word 2013, and most recently, Word 2016 have been released for Windows. In 1986, an agreement between and Microsoft brought Word to the. The Atari ST version was a translation of Word 1.05 for the Apple Macintosh; however, it was released under the name (the name of the word processor included with Windows during the 80s and early 90s). Unlike other versions of Word, the Atari version was a one time release with no future updates or revisions. The release of Microsoft Write was one of two major PC applications that were released for the Atari ST (the other application being WordPerfect).
Microsoft Write was released for the Atari ST in 1988. In 2014 the for Word for Windows in the version 1.1a was made available to the and the public for educational purposes. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Word for DOS [ ] The first Microsoft Word was released in 1983. It featured graphics video mode and mouse support in a WYSIWYG interface. It could run in text mode or graphics mode but the visual difference between the two was minor. In graphics mode, the document and interface were rendered in a fixed font size monospace character grid with italic, bold and underline features that was not available in text mode.
It had support for style sheets in separate files (.STY). The first version of Word was a 16 bits PC-DOS/MS-DOS application.
A Macintosh 68000 version named Word 1.0 was released in 1985 and a Microsoft Windows was released in 1989. The three products shared the same Microsoft Word name, the same version numbers but were very different products built on different code bases. Three product lines co-existed: Word 1.0 to Word 5.0 for Macintosh, Word 1.0 to Word 2.0 for Windows and Word 1.0 to Word 5.5 for DOS.
Word 1.1 for DOS was released in 1984 and added the Print Merge support, equivalent to the Mail Merge feature in newer Word systems. Word 2.0 for DOS was released in 1985 and featured Extended Graphics Array (EGA) support. Word 3.0 for DOS, released in 1986 added support for revision marks (equivalent to the Track changes features in more recent Word versions), search/replace by style and macros stored as key stroke sequences. Word 4.0 for DOS was released in 1987. Word 5.0 for DOS, released in 1989, added support for bookmarks and cross-references and conditions and loops in macros, remaining backwards compatible with Word 3.0 macros. The macro language differed from the WinWord 1.0 WordBasic macro language.