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3 easy ways to find out what Microsoft Word version you have on Windows

Roy Ulerio
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Microsoft Office Word is a word processor application of Microsoft Corporation. As the core program of Office, Word provides many easy-to-use document creation tools, and also provides a rich set of functions for creating complex documents. With the development of Microsoft Office, there exists various version of Word. So many users forgot what version of the word they have and don't know how to check it. Worry not, this article tells you how to find out what Microsoft Word version you have in three ways.

Way 1: Find out Microsoft Word version through account

Way 1 is the simplest way to check what Word version do I have.

Step 1: Run Word, click Account, and the version of your Word can be seen on the right.

Account

Step 2: If you want to get the exact Word version, click About Word.

About Word

The exact Microsoft Word version can be seen in this page.

About Word

Way 2. Find out Microsoft Word version through Windows Settings

Without opening Word, we can also find out the Microsoft Word version in Windows Settings.

Step 1: Press Win key and click the Settings icon.

click Settings

Step 2: Click System.

Click System

Step 3: Select Apps & features tab, scroll to find the Microsoft Office on the right, and then click it.

Check Microsoft Office in Settings

Way 3. Find out Microsoft Word version through Command Prompt

Step 1: Type CMD in the Search Bar and double-click Command Prompt to open it.

Open cmd

Step 2: Enter reg query "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer" and press the Enter key, the version of your Microsoft Word can be seen below.

Check version on cmd

Step 3: Besides, you can Enter wmic product get caption,version >d:\version.txt and press the Enter key to output the exact Word version.

enter vmic command

Step 4: After entering the above command, a version.txt file will be created on the D drive. Find the text file on the root directory of D drive and open it. The top is the information of Microsoft Word, we can check the Microsoft Office version in it.

version information text file

Tips:

  • The kernel version of Office 2019 is 16.0.XXXXX
  • The kernel version of Office 2016 is 16.0.XXXX (1 bit less than 2019)
  • The kernel version of Office 2013 is 15.0
  • The kernel version of Office 2010 is 14.0
  • The kernel version of Office 2007 is 12.0