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Microsoft Word (often called Word) is a word processing program that you can write (type) on. It is made by the computer company Microsoft. It includes helpful tools to make good documents. Some of the important tools include a spelling & grammar checker, word count (this also count letters and lines), and the newer version includes speech recognition ( a technology that lets you control your computer by speaking to it, or telling it what to write). Moreover, with this program one can make attractive documents, insert picture in documents, make web pages, graphs etc. Also, it displays synonyms (similiar words) of words and can read out the text. Not to forget its fully customizable printing facility. It can be bought at shops and normally comes with Microsoft Office, but can be brought separately.

The program was first released in 1981. Many of the ideas and features in M icrosoft Word came from Bravo, the first graphical writing program. Microsoft brought the Bravo Program , and changed its name to Microsoft Word. When it first came out, it was not very popular, and didn’t sell as well as other writing program like WordPerfect. Although it was not very popular when it came out, it had a feature called WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), which meant that people can change the visual style of writing (e.g. bold, italics), by clicking on buttons, when in other programs like WordPerfect, people had to add special ‘codes’ to change the style of writing. WYSIWYG is now a common feature of all computer writing programs.

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