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 ...

A word processor is a program designed for creating and editing business and personal documents that are primarily text-based. Most modern word processors enable you to customize fonts and formatting ...

At first, I wasn’t positive I could make it work. Then I did. Now I can’t imagine life without it. Hello again, and welcome ...

The $495 package, developed by New York City-headquartered Dragonfly Software, runs on the IBM-PC and compatible computers. In many ways it takes after another word-processing program, XyWrite, a ...

An app designed to work best on mobile has taken cloud-based word processing and given it the sharing capabilities of Evernote. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...

Despite the many tools already available for collaborative word processing, most people would still rather e-mail different versions of a document to each other. TextFlow, a new Web-based word ...

Recently my colleagues and I were discussing the history of word processors (that’s just the kind of thing we do here), and a few of them reminisced about using one called WordPerfect many, many years ...