WHATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MICROSOFT WORD AND MICROSOFT OFFICE?

Question

my Dell had both installed in it but my Vaio only has word and im taking online classes which is better to use to write essays and ect...

Answer 1

Word is one program within Office, which contains several other programs. Excel, Powerpoint, etc.



Good luck.

Answer 2

"Microsoft Office" is a suite of programs which contains Microsoft Word. If you only need a word processor then your Vaio will be fine. But as a college student you may need programs like Excel and Powerpoint which are included in the Microsoft Office suite.



Conclusion: use the all emcompassing Microsoft Office suite to complete your college work.

Answer 3

microsoft word is the software which helps you to write and save documents in word format. So that you will be able to read or print it whenever you want. Microsoft office is a package of softwares, which contains mocrosoft word, excel, powerpoint, etc. If you install microsoft office full package you will get all the softwares like word, excel, powerpoint, etc.

Answer 4

Microsoft (Office) Word is one part of Microsoft Office. Others are Excel, Outlook and Powerpoint. The biggest difference you should see is that one may be the 2007 version and one might be earlier.



Note that Word 2007 by default produces .docx documents, which your online classes may not accept. To get it to produce the older .doc format, do this:



1. Click the round Office button in the upper-left corner of the window.

2. Click the Save As->Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc) menu item.

3. Save the file.



Hope that helps.

Answer 5

Microsoft Office is a software package containing multiple programs - Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc.

Microsoft Word is one of the programs that makes up Microsoft Office.

Answer 6

Microsoft Office is a "Suite" and contains a collection of programs, when you buy office you have several options depending on your requirement and how much you are willing to pay, the standard suite contains , Excel, PowerPoint, outlook and Word. The professional suite contains additional programs such as publisher, one-note, info-path, access etc.



A comparable suite is Lotus Notes Suite from IBM which has similar programs.

Answer 7

Microsoft Office is not a product. You can't write essays in it. It's a bundle containing Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Publisher, etc.



So whichever you have you're still writing your essays in Microsoft Word.

Answer 8

as the responders have indicated Word is one piece of a suite of applications each serving a different function:



Word - Word Processor (text editor on steriods)

Excel - Spreadsheet

Access - Database

Outlook - Personal Information Manager (email)

Power Point - Presentation

Publisher - Desktop Publishing

Visio - Diagramming

Project - Project Management

Answer 9

MS word is a typing program which is used to type doc's mails and etc

and MS-OFFICE means collection of ms program

Answer 10

This is a challenging question, and one that made me curious for quite a while.

Answer 11

I was curious about this too