Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, instead of word processors like today's favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use ...

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 ...

Text can be deleted, typed over or inserted, and words at the right margin wrap to the next line. Text can be centered between left and right margins. Text can be copied or moved within the document, ...

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 .

OpenXchange's new word processor is the first in a set of Linux-based productivity apps. Can it compete with Google Docs and Office 365? Web-hosted productivity suites like Google Docs and Microsoft ...

Microsoft Word can ably edit PDFs with lots of text, but it can’t replace a dedicated PDF editor for complex documents. Microsoft doesn’t include a PDF editor in its Office suite, but it has made it ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

Linux word processors are chipping away at Microsoft Word's ownership of the usability label. Check out this Daily Drill Down to see how StarOffice 6.0 matches up to the current word processing leader ...

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 ...

Last week I gave you some useful Windows tips; this week I thought I’d continue the tips theme, and move to Microsoft Word. Actually, when you’re copying from a Web page, things get a little ...