Origins
In 1981, Microsoft hired Charles Simonyi, the primary developer of Bravo, the first GUI word processor, which was developed at Xerox PARC. Simonyi started work on a word processor called

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Filename extensions
Microsoft Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx filename extension.
Although the

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Among its features, Word includes a built-in spell checker, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and utilities for manipulating and editing text. The following are some aspects of its feature set.
Templates
Several later versions of

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Word for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Word available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint

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Initial releases of Word were met with criticism. BYTEin 1984 criticized the documentation for Word 1.1 and 2.0 for DOS, calling it "a complete farce". It called the software "clever, put together well, and performs some extraordinary feats", but concluded that "especially

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• Liebowitz, Stan J. & Margolis, Stephen E. Winners, Losers & Microsoft:

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There are three password types that can be set in Microsoft Word:
• Password to open a document
• Password to modify a document
• Password restricting formatting and editing

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