The best word processor available today is: Microsoft Word For sheer features and convenience it's still hard to beat Microsoft Word. While it's not free like the tools listed below, the latest ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you look at a document as nothing more than a disconnected Web page, Branchfire has an app for you: Folia. Folia, available for free for the iPad, OS X, Android, and Windows 8, is a really ...

Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format. Even though these .docx or .doc files are native to Word, it ...

Microsoft Word is easily the biggest, most popular word processing program available, but it does a lot more than just edit text and TPS reports. If you’ve been telling yourself that you’ll finally ...

In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based file formats, such as XPS and Office XML. This work was widely ...

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In some ways, this functionality, which is available starting today, is similar to what other word processors do with embedded tables. But Quip’s version is a real spreadsheet, with formulas and ...

For many law firms, legal word processing is both mission-critical and chronically under-optimized. Briefs, motions, ...

After a few weeks of working with Word 2008, it’s apparent that there is a major convergence between how Apple and Microsoft think a word processing application should work. While Word hasn’t changed ...

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