Microsoft Word is a computer program that many people use for writing. I think Microsoft Word is a very helpful and important tool, especially for students and workers. It makes writing easier and helps people create neat and organized documents. One reason I like Microsoft Word is because it has many useful features. It checks spelling and grammar, which helps me fix mistakes in my writing. It also has tools that let you change the font, size, and style of words. These tools make assignments look more professional and easier to read. Microsoft Word also has templates that help people write things like reports, letters, and resumes. Even though Microsoft Word is helpful, it can sometimes be confusing. There are many buttons and options, and it may take time to learn how to use them all. However, once you practice and understand the program better, it becomes much easier and more useful. In conclusion, I think Microsoft Word is a powerful and reliable program. It helps people write better and stay organized. Even though it can be difficult at first, it is worth learning because it improves the quality of written work.

I've been using Word now as a professional writer since spring 1988 when I bought my first Mac. There's no doubt that Word is the most powerful document creating application out there. However, I am seriously weirded out by it these days. As a writer, I tend to work on anywhere from a dozen to two or three dozen stories, essays, and articles every week. It used to be that I could just quit the app with whatever open and when I logged back on everything would boot up automatically. For the past good while (can't remember how long) that option seems gone. Yes, there is the "Recently Open" command, but I don't have time nor do I want to waste my limited intelligence trying to remember what was open and why. You'd think at least that there would be a startup page option letting you choose to re-open what was open. Not happening. I've written to Microsoft on this problem several times. No response back that I know of. That is a problem with being too big to care. I've got my methods for getting around this issue, of course, but still, they require thinking about something trivial that I really don't want to waste my brain on. I'm a power user and because of this problem alone, Microsoft gets three stars only. As time goes on and no one pays attentiion to this problem, I'm likely to drop my rating to two stars. It's just a stupid problem that can easily be fixed. And the fact that it hasn't been means MS is not paying attention or truly doesn't care because they don't think they need to. Sad!

I still feel like the new comments system is more limiting than the old. If I try to attach a comment to a part of the document that is a Tracked Change, I can't see the comment at all, even as I try to type it. I also can no longer change how Comments are shown as the Show Comments drop down menu has, at some point in the last few years, become greyed out. These problems have been here for years now. I know some of the initial lost features have since been implemented, but it overall feels like a step back that we're trying to recover from. I can't seem to revert to Classic Comments either—though from announcements I've seen, that would only ever have been a temporary solution anyway. I'm not interested in the AI intrusions either, and I don't like that disabling it cuts me off from functions that I used to have access to. I had it on initially, and it rendered the Spelling and Grammar Check virtually useless, which is why I turned off "Connected Experiences". I've used Word my entire adult life, but I'm seriously considering switching to another word processer with the way these "updates" seem to be going. If I want AI input on my writing, I'll seek that out. If I want a collaborative shared document experience, I'll use some sort of shared document app. But I need a place where I can just write and edit a document without a bunch of other things butting in and getting in the way of the basic function of what Word is supposed to be. Sometimes, it's better to NOT have everything in one place

One of the most enjoyable experiences in using a Mac is that there is noi taskbar anbd popups from every program that thinks it needs to run in the background, take up resources without asking and give you "urgent" messages, in your face thinking that "I am the most important piece of software and daily task you will ever have". Microsoft products take me right back to that old feeling. At any given moment a message could pop up on whatever I do from Word or any other Office app telling me that it must close down all my documents because there's an urgent update (Usually it's some idiotic thing like dictionary update for ancient swahili spelling of the word "cave"). When you refuse because - hey I am working here, it keeps nudging you time after time after time after time after time after time. Leave me alone. I am the owner of this computer and I am the one paying for the licensing fee and my priority right now is my work and not YOUR schedule of updates. Microsoft still has that mentality that your priorities are subject to theirs. Who cares about your deadlines, focus, other tasks? As for the rest of the porogram - it's ok but in this day and age I would expect drawing, dictionary, design, envelope and mail merge, and charting tools to be more advanced, reliable, fluiid, and take better directives than they did in 1998, before releasing half baked AI features into this bloated software. Very dissapointed