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, ...

Adobe has acquired BuzzWord, a beautiful Flash-based word processor. But we recommend against using it until the company can add in necessary features. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Windows has a few good word processors available, but when it comes to the majority of users, the free LibreOffice should serve any word processing needs you have. LibreOffice's biggest advantage, of ...