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 ...

There is no such thing as the final word in word processing software. The three leading programs for Windows computers — Microsoft Word, Wordperfect and Ami Pro — regularly leapfrog one another with ...

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 ...

Powerful word processing programs — those used in professions and corporations — are expensive ($495 and up) and take time to learn. Many new computer owners shy away, choosing instead simple, cheap ...

Can’t remember what that old file named SMITH.TXT was all about? Most word processors let you have no more than 11 letters to identify a file. Shuffling files in a computer to find out what’s in them ...

Once upon a time, and it wasn't that long ago, instead of word processors like today's favorites such as Microsoft Word, Google Docs or OpenOffice and its brother LibreOffice, we had to use ...

If Will Rogers were still alive a year ago and using a personal computer, he might have said something akin to, ”I`ve never met an electronic thesaurus I liked.” That`s because, until recently, ...

However, the embedded equations and diagrams common to many math, chemistry, and physics publications were still difficult to manage. "Chemistry documents have historically always been very ...

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 ...

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, ...