Part of the Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Word serves as a basic word processing program -- virtually no business is exempt from the need for word processing, so it's vital to know exactly how to ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

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 ...

If you’ve been using Microsoft Word for the past quarter of a century, it can seem like Word has always been the top dog of the word-processing world–and for years, it’s been incorporated into ...

Pages, Apple’s alternative to Microsoft Word, is deceptively simple. Here are three ways to get the most of Apple’s free word processing app, including a Pages cheat sheet. Apple’s Pages is a free ...