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 ...

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 ...

A while back, I wrote about using Google’s “define” feature tofind a definition for “durst,” and was told there is no such wordin English. Well, at www.dictionary.com, I learned that the word isthe ...

This week, we’ll take a look at word processing and spreadsheets, saving graphic presentation and desktop publishing for next Monday’s final installment of this series. Data-base applications will ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...