Microsoft Word is application that allows creating, editing and publishing of documents that contain a large variety of elements, i.e. plain and artistic text, unicodes, professionally looking complex equations, logical structures, executable scripts, visual basic language, some latex scripts, graphs, tables, etc.
To answer upfront, the best suited program is the one you have and know how to use to achieve your tasks. But then again, keep an open mind as it could become way easier.
Version
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ease of use
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scientific documents
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non-scientific documents
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Word 2019
| ✓✓✓✓✓ |
✓✓✓✓✓
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Word 2016
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✓✓✓✓✓
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✓✓✓✓✓
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Word 2013
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✓✓✓✓✓
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✓✓✓✓✓
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Word 2010
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✓✓✓✓
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✓✓✓✓✓
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Word 2007
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✓✓✓✓
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✓✓✓✓✓
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Word 2003
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✓✓
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✓✓✓✓
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Word XP
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✓✓
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✓✓✓✓
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Office 2019 is the latest version. It has similar interface compared to the versions after Office 2007. However, it offers improved functionality with some Latex capabilities. When it comes to publishing it has all it takes to deal with scientific and non-scientific manuscripts.
Office 2016 and Office 2013 are similar in their interface. For publishing needs they have all it takes to deal with scientific and non-scientific manuscripts.
Office 2010 has similar interface to the 2007 version. It is great if you are to publish a non-scientific manuscript. Publishing of a scientific manuscripts is not difficult, however, for scientific documents it is slightly more challenging when it comes to enumeration of the equations.
Office 2007 presented a new interface with tabs compared to the older versions .It is no longer supported and updated. Using this version, formatting of fiction books is as straight forward as with the newer versions. Office 2007 included a new feature that is the equation editor. Publishing of a scientific manuscripts is not difficult, however, for scientific documents it is slightly challenging when it comes to enumeration of equations.
Office XP and Office 2003 are no longer supported and updated. However, if you have tried them lately you would be amazed by the response time of these applications.
They are arguably the first versions that are friendly enough to allow fast book formatting when it comes to fiction books. For input of formulas they can be paired with an add-on like MathType. However, MathType can change the line spacing and create non uniformly spaced line intervals. Their interface resembles a lot the OpenOffice. Publishing of a scientific manuscripts is still possible.
Tutorials for Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010, Word 2007 can be found at: http://amazon.com/author/popmintchev
Microsoft Word for mac OS has somewhat different interface and features.
Tutorials for Word 2019, Word 2016, Word 2013, Word 2010, Word 2007 can be found at: http://amazon.com/author/popmintchev
Word or Office Version
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Windows version compatibility
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Word 2019
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Windows 10, Windows Server 2019
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Word 2016
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Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to Windows Server 2019
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Word 2013
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Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10,
Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2016
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Word 2010
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Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10,
Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016
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Word 2007
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Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10,
Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016
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Word 2003
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Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10,
Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2016
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Word XP
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Windows NT 4.0 SP6, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista,
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10
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Microsoft Word for mac OS has somewhat different interface and features.
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Word for macOS
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MacOS version
compatibility
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Word 2019
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macOS 10.12 - 10.14
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Word 2016
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macOS 10.10 - 10.13
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Word 2011
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macOS 10.5 - 10.12
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Word 2008
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macOS 10.5 - 10.12
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Word 2004
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macOS 10.4 - 10.12
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Word X
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macOS 10.1 - 10.6
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Some other popular applications are:
Latex: Latex is a free program. It is great and quite advanced when it comes to publishing. However, it requires input of large variety of command scripts that may become overwhelming.
OpenOfice is another free program. It can be used instead of Word however it will come at the cost of the time required to achieve the tasks. OpenOffice is great to extract text from files that Word may fail to open.
Other applications are Scrivener, Word Perfect, etc.
The best program is the one you have and know how to use to achieve your tasks.
