In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

You have plenty of choices when it comes to word processing software, but the most obvious (and popular and ubiquitous) of those choices are Microsoft’s Word 2011 ( ), Apple’s Pages ’09 ( ), and ...

Microsoft Word used to be enough—now I split my writing across these 5 apps, and they are amazing at doing what the old apps ...

The other day I came across a higher ed tech experiment that I’d never before heard about. Coin-operated word processors. In 1983 Harvard, in collaboration with Digital Equipment Corporation, ...

It took less than 5 minutes of using Word for iPad to have an overwhelming first impression: I hope Word on every platform becomes what Word on the iPad is. Sleek, uncluttered, well organized, and ...

Learning when and how to use the cut, copy and paste commands in your word processor dramatically improves your productivity. Instead of retyping a sentence you want moved, you can cut and paste it to ...

When it comes to word processing, most people—and most businesses—still think of Microsoft Word. Whether it's a résumé or an essay, it's most likely to come as a .docx file, the universally recognized ...

Windows offers “WordPad” as the default rich editor. It works, but then it’s limited. I am sure there are many processors available, but what makes Jarte interesting is that it is based on the same ...

I spent the past month collaboratively writing an iPhone book in Google Docs, and frankly, the experience was fantastic. The sharing and organizational features in Google Docs and Spreadsheets are ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc plans to acquire Virtual Ubiquity, makers of Buzzword, an innovative word processor, in a surprise move that competes with Microsoft Corp and Google Inc .