[1] Word Pro was available as part of the Lotus SmartSuite office suite.

The predecessor to Ami Pro, Amí, was released in 1988, and was the first fully functional Windows word processor.

Shortly after the release of Amí, the development team added support for tables and renamed the product Ami Pro.

Lotus obtained Ami Pro to round out their office suite by acquiring Samna in 1990.

Lotus continued to develop Ami Pro further with version 3 released in 1992.