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What Is Microsoft Word?

This section provides a quick introduction of Microsoft Word - a document authoring and publishing tool. Microsoft Word can be used to edit Unicode text files with various encodings.

What Is Microsoft Word? Microsoft Word is a document authoring and publishing tool that is included in the Microsoft Office product suite.

Microsoft Word is mainly used to edit documents formatted for printing. But it also be used to open and save Unicode text files in encoded formats.

The version of Microsoft Word on my Windows XP system is Microsoft Office Word 2003 (11.8169.8172) SP3. It supports at least 4 Unicode encodings: Unicode, Unicode (Big-Endian), Unicode (UTF-7) and Unicode (UTF-8).

Here is a screenshot of Microsoft Word:
Word Screenshot

Sections in This Chapter

What Is Microsoft Word?

Opening UTF-8 Text Files

Opening UTF-16BE Text Files

Opening UTF-16LE Text Files

Saving Files in "Unicode (UTF-8)" Option

Saving Files in "Unicode (Big-Endian)" Option

Saving Files in Unicode Option

Supported Save and Open File Formats

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2009
What Is Microsoft Word?