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 ...

We probably should have known something was up when they didn’t give WordPad a dark mode. Just before the long holiday weekend, Microsoft added WordPad to its list of “Deprecated Features” for Windows ...

Microsoft’s titan of a word processor is used almost everywhere by almost everyone, but what if you don’t want to spend seven bucks a month? Here are our favorite alternatives to Word. They’re all ...

The word processing software came online in 1983 and eventually came to eclipse every other word processing software in market share. Reading time 2 minutes There was a time when most folks weren’t on ...

The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an ...

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 ...

It works on most major OS platforms and supports many languages; it’s able to read and write most documents in Microsoft Word’s .doc format, as well as twenty others; its authors claim it can do most ...

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 ...

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