Is Word 7.0 the same as Word 2003?

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No, Word 2003 is Word 11, and the current release, Word 2007, is Word 12.
But note that those release numbers don't always make sense. Occasionally,
Microsoft skips numbers...
 
Word 7.0 is Word for Windows 95. As Peter and Stefan have pointed out, Word
2003 is Word 11.0. People sometimes write "Word 7" when they mean Word 2007,
which is Word 12.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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I believe Word version 7 would have been called" Word 95". Here's the logic I
used to reach that conclusion.

Word version 6 was called "Word 6" and Word version 11 was called "Word
2003". (Interesting to note that the version of Word prior to version 6 was
version 3 - an example of skipping a few numbers.) Working backwards to fill
in the gaps between the two versions we get:

Version 10 - Word XP/2002
Version 9 - Word 2000
Version 8 - Word 97
Version 7 - Word 95

As Stefan has pointed out, Word 2007 is version 12, but according to MSFT
the next release will be version 14 - another example of skipping a number.
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It was not actually called Word 95, but Word for Windows 95, part of Office
for Windows 95. Probably what started all this confusion of Word/Windows
versions.

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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com"
 
Shall we pick _another_ nit then and clarify that Word 2003 is actually
called "Microsoft Office Word 2003"?
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Gordon Bentley-Mix
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Gordon said:
As Stefan has pointed out, Word 2007 is version 12, but according to MSFT
the next release will be version 14 - another example of skipping a number.
Click to expand...

It's more than likely an avoidance of having a Version 13. Corel
avoided that number in its products by having Version 12 followed by
X3. However, X3 wasn't followed by 14, But X4.
 
Indeed, and there are versions that include "Office System." But "Word for
Windows 95" was a clear break from previous versions, which had been Word
for Windows 1.0, Word for Windows 2.0, and Word for Windows 6.0. In all
those cases, the "for Windows" was to differentiate the product from
previous versions for DOS (and the version number was clearly that of Word,
not Windows). Various specious reasons were given for the abrupt jump from
2.0 to 6.0, but cynics said it was to keep pace with the current version of
WordPerfect, the market leader at the time.

Windows 95 was also a break from the previous naming convention (Windows
3.0, 3.1, 3.11), and in fact Word for Windows 95 would not run on previous
versions of Windows. This has not been true of subsequent versions of Word,
which would usually run on several versions of Windows. But when you
consider the number of users who refer to "Vista Word" (Word 2007, which I'm
happily running on Windows XP) and the questions we got about whether you
had to have Windows 2000 to run Word 2000, you can see that a linkage was
established with "Word for Windows 95" that has persisted to this day.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com"
 
I believe Word version 7 would have been called" Word 95". Here's the logic I
used to reach that conclusion.

Word version 6 was called "Word 6" and Word version 11 was called "Word
2003". (Interesting to note that the version of Word prior to version 6 was
version 3 - an example of skipping a few numbers.) Working backwards to fill
in the gaps between the two versions we get:
Click to expand...

I used Word 5.0 for Mac for years.
 
It would make more sense to write "Word 07" for Word 2007 than "Word 7," I
think (for those who wants to use the short version of the year.)
 
Yes, there's an example of that earlier in this NG, in the subject line
"someone sent me a document using word 07 but I only have 03."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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