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 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 ...

We list the best free word processors, to make it simple and easy to discover alternative software to Microsoft Word that have similar features. It used to be the case that you had to subscribe to a ...

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 ...

LibreOffice is a popular productivity software and free alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite. It is widely used to create professional documents like brochures, newsletters, graphs, charts, ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...