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Microsoft put the last piece of its online office suite puzzle in place Monday, officially launching its Web-based suite of Microsoft Office applications called Office Web Apps. However, the biggest ...

I'm not much of a programmer, but I do all of my writing using a tool traditionally used for programming. I actually spent years using Microsoft Word, the tool I, like many others, grew up using for ...

Word processing app startup Quip is today announcing a redesign aimed at improving everyday usage. The team has cooked up an inbox to track updates to all of your documents, and it has new filters ...

You have plenty of choices when it comes to word processing software, but the most obvious (and popular and ubiquitous) of those choices are Microsoft’s Word 2011 ( ), Apple’s Pages ’09 ( ), and ...

OmmWriter Dana II lacks many features found in full-fledged word processing apps, but facilitates a pleasurable and distraction-free reading experience that keeps you focused on the task at hand.

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 ...

The Mac comes with apps for writing notes, letters, and even books, but take the time to look further and there are superb writing apps for every aspect of writing. You do already have Pages on your ...

It took less than 5 minutes of using Word for iPad to have an overwhelming first impression: I hope Word on every platform becomes what Word on the iPad is. Sleek, uncluttered, well organized, and ...