As strictly a word processor for text based documents, I like Word 2011, mostly because it looks and acts just like Word 2007. Love the interface on it. For desktop publishing (i.e. graphics heavy ...

Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Bean is a lightweight, Cocoa-based word processor for Macs. When we highlighted NeoOffice, the Mac-like port of OpenOffice.org, a lot of readers wanted to ...

WordPad is a simple word processor that is native to all versions of the Windows operating system. Although WordPad has all the basic functions you would need to create a text document, it is unable ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Word processing apps are as old as the personal computer, but what counts as a “word processor” turns out to be almost as contentious as determining the “best” word processor. In this TidBITS reader ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

The battle of Word vs. Google Docs is usually over before it begins, with the spoils awarded to Microsoft’s venerable word processor and its huge feature set. But the size of the toolbox isn’t always ...