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 ...

In business, job descriptions often don't stay static. If you're used to creating tables, charts and graphs, you may end up writing correspondence or produce business reports, which will require some ...

This week, Microsoft quietly announced a small but important change to Word. The popular word-processing software will now ...

Is Apple’s iWork a viable alternative to Microsoft Office? To find out, we asked Jeffrey Battersby—our go-to expert on word processing programs—to use Word 2008 and Pages ’08 to create the same ...

For many, part of the back-to-school ritual includes buying a new computer and the accompanying software students need for writing reports, creating spreadsheets and making presentations. Microsoft ...

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. (MSNBC.com is a Microsoft - ...

Microsoft the company should big improve Word grammar check. No, your eyes aren't deceiving you. That sentence is a confusing jumble. However, it is perfectly fine in the assessment of Microsoft ...

Note takers, take note. A new breed of software is taking the humble word processor out of the age of the typewriter and ushering it into the age of the Internet. These new "note taking" programs go ...

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, ...