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Word 2.0 for DOS was released in 1985 and featured Extended Graphics Adapter (EGA) support. Word 3.0 for DOS was released in 1986. Word 4.0 for DOS was released in 1987 and added support for revision marks (equivalent to the Track Changes feature in more recent Word versions), search/replace by style and macros stored as keystroke sequences. [8]
Word 6.0, Excel 5.0, PowerPoint 4.0, Office Manager Office Manager included. Last version for Windows NT 3.5. August 24, 1995 Office 95 (7.0) Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Schedule+, Binder, Access, Bookshelf The first Office version to have the same version number (7.0, inherited from Word 6.0) for all major component products (Word, Excel and so on).
Microsoft Word is a word processing program developed by Microsoft.It was first released on October 25, 1983, [12] under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems. [13] [14] [15] Subsequent versions were later written for several other platforms including: IBM PCs running DOS (1983), Apple Macintosh running the Classic Mac OS (1985), AT&T UNIX PC (1985), Atari ST (1988), OS/2 (1989 ...
WordPerfect (WP) is a word processing application, now owned by Alludo, [3] with a long history on multiple personal computer platforms. At the height of its popularity in the 1980s and early 1990s, it was the market leader of word processors, displacing the prior market leader WordStar.
Also presented is a timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080-based and 16-bit x86-based CP/M operating systems from 1974 to 2014, as well as the hardware and software developments from 1973 to 1995 which formed the foundation for the initial version and subsequent enhanced versions of these operating systems.
Microsoft Office 4.0 was released containing Word 6.0, Excel 4.0a, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail in 1993. [141] Word's version number jumped from 2.0 to 6.0 so that it would have the same version number as the MS-DOS and Macintosh versions (Excel and PowerPoint were already numbered the same as the Macintosh versions).
DOC was changed once again into an OLE and CFBF-based format used from Word 97 ("8.0") to 2003 ("11.0"). Word for MS-DOS used its own specific DOC format. [5] In order to allow users of Word 6.0 and Word 95 to be able to open and read documents created in the newer (97–2003) format, Microsoft released the downloadable Word 97 Import Converter ...
Prior to WordStar, word processors split text entry and formatting into separate functions; the latter was often not done until a document was about to be printed. WordStar was one of the first "what you see is what you get" word processors, showing accurate line breaks and page breaks on the computer screen. It was a major breakthrough to be ...