Users regard Word as the standard; Google Docs, IBM Docs and Apache’s free OpenOffice Writer would like to change that It is 30 years old and dominates the word processing market, but Microsoft Word ...

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 ...

Microsoft Office, a suite of business related tools, is a fixture in many small business settings. One of the most essential programs in Microsoft Office is Microsoft Word 2010, a word processing ...

Professionals and beginners around the world use Microsoft products for various purposes. Many tools from the ecosystem of this tech giant have become reliable assistants in many businesses. They are ...

For as far as anyone can probably remember, Microsoft Word, notably renowned by many for its comprehensive features and widespread use in both professional and personal settings, has reigned supreme ...

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 has announced that its long-running WordPad app will no longer be updated, and it will be removed in a future release of Windows. WordPad, which first debuted almost three decades ago as a ...

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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 ...

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we'd all used in office jobs. "You know, I've been using Word for over 20 years," I said, and ...