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Brief me on the top 5-10 online communities/forums for Microsoft Word.
Hi! Thanks for your question on the top online communities/forums for Microsoft Word. The most useful sources I found to answer your question were the websites for Word Banter, Utter Access, and Office Frustration. In short, after an exhaustive search using advanced keywords and Boolean techniques, I was only able to locate one active English forum dedicated solely to Microsoft Word that is not run by Microsoft. However, I was able to identify additional forums and communities that are for Microsoft Office products and have categories specific to Microsoft Word. I have included these sites, as well. Below, you will find a deep dive of my findings.
HELPFUL FINDINGS
Below, you will find a list of the top 5 online communities and forums for Microsoft Office products, including Microsoft Word. I have provided the scope for each site, an overview of the community organization, dates of most recent activity, and membership numbers, per your request. Links to all sources have been included, as well. The forums were assigned a ranking (1-5) based on number of members using the site.
Office Frustration is a community for all Microsoft Office products. It is considered a moderated newsgroup. The site is categorized by product, including Word, and offers many subcategories, such as new users, formatting, mail merge, tables, page layout, and general discussion. The forum has seen a total of 983,779 threads and 3,437,672 posts thus far. The most recent post in the Microsoft Word category was made on February 28, 2017.
Utter Access is a Microsoft Access help forum available in over 160 countries. The site offers forums in categories such as Visual Basic, Microsoft Office (including Word), SQL Server, and PC Issues. The Microsoft Office forum is categorized by product. The most recent post in the Microsoft Word category was made on February 27, 2017.
Word Banter is a forum dedicated specifically to Microsoft Word. It includes many of the same categories as Office Frustration, including new users, formatting long documents, page layout, mail merge, tables, and Microsoft Word help. Thus far, the community has seen 666,761 posts in 204,127 threads. The most recent post was made on March 6, 2017.
MS Office Forums is another community for all Microsoft Office products. It is categorized by specific product, including Microsoft Word. Subcategories under Microsoft Word include Word, Word VBA, mail merge, Word tables, and drawing and graphics. There have been 106,976 posts in 31,584 threads thus far. The most recent post in the Word category was made on March 10, 2017.
Microsoft Office Forums is a forum for all Microsoft products, broken down by product category. The forum is free to join and is open to all users, regardless of experience. There are a total of 2,070,991 discussions and 6.970,576 messages. The Microsoft Word category was last posted in on March 10, 2017.
Please note numbers associated with membership, discussions, posts, and threads are updated in real time for most of these forums and communities. The numbers provided are the current numbers at the time this response was written.
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, there are very few active English communities or forums dedicated solely to Microsoft Word that are not operated by Microsoft. There are; however, some forums inclusive of all Microsoft products, with Office Frustration being the most popular, based on membership. Thank you for using Wonder! Please let us know if we can assist with anything else!