Microsoft Word 2010

A full-featured word processing program for Windows and Mac from Microsoft. Available stand-alone or as part of the Microsoft Office suite, Word contains basic desktop publishing capabilities and is the most widely used word processing program on the market.

Word files are commonly used as the format for sending text documents via e-mail because almost every user with a computer can read a Word document by using the Word application, a Word viewer or a word processor that imports the Word format.

Microsoft Word is used primarily as a word processing application. It can be used to type papers, brochures, resumes, and many other types of documents.