Google, which late last year dodged rumors it was developing productivity applications, can no longer make that claim as Thursday it acquired Writely, an online word processing application. While the ...

It’s been a year since Apple released Pages ( ; April 2005 ), the word processing and page-layout portion of the dynamic iWork duo—and what a difference a year makes. While I would like to have seen ...

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, ...

3 tips to maximize Apple’s free Pages word processing app Your email has been sent Pages, Apple's alternative to Microsoft Word, is deceptively simple. Here are three ways to get the most of Apple's ...

The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an ...

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 ...

Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format. Even though these .docx or .doc files are native to Word, it ...