| The rapidly growing competition and advanced technologies have made software developers pay special attention to effectiveness and productivity of all work processes. Consequently, there have been invented different applications that can optimise firms' work.
The Word document format is one of the most frequently deployed formats. Microsoft Word is a word processing application which is designed for creation of documents, for instance resumes, letters, fax cover sheets, audit reports, legal documents, brochures, manuals and more. Word is often used by companies, community agencies, and is installed in most educational establishments. Students use it everyday and businessmen deploy it for creating professional documents.
The Word was released by Microsoft Ltd. Its original name was Multi-Tool Word. The first addition was presented in 1983. Since then, there have been developed several other versions, including the latest version that appeared in 2008. The next version of Word is scheduled to come to the market in 2010. It will contain many new features common to other applications in the Office 2010. The 2010 addition will have new WordArt styles and effects replacing the old ones.
Although Word is a component of the Microsoft Office system, it sells as a standalone software package and included in Microsoft Works Suite. Beginning with the 2003 addition, the branding was altered to emphasize Word's identity as a constituent within the Office Suite. The company renamed Microsoft Word into Microsoft Office Word.
The application allows to type, format and modify text to be printed off or viewed electronically.
Word is an affordable word processing programme. Word offers numerous features and tools, and a lot of users are familiar and comfortable with its Microsoft toolbars.
The Word format provides tools to format fonts, add page numbers and clipart, and create tables and headers.
Word's document formats are denoted either by a. doc or. docx file extension. The newer ".docx" extension stands for the Office Open XML international standard for Office documents and is used by Word 2007 for Windows, Word 2008 for the Macintosh. |