Microsoft Word used to be enough—now I split my writing across these 5 apps, and they are amazing at doing what the old apps ...

At first, I wasn’t positive I could make it work. Then I did. Now I can’t imagine life without it. Hello again, and welcome ...

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 ...

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 ...

Linux word processors are chipping away at Microsoft Word's ownership of the usability label. Check out this Daily Drill Down to see how StarOffice 6.0 matches up to the current word processing leader ...

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 ...

WordPad had to die because it was a simple program that did a single thing well with minimal overhead. Thankfully, now that it’s dead, Microsoft can redirect their resources to adding a 14th ...