Users regard Word as the standard; Google Docs, IBM Docs and Apache’s free OpenOffice Writer would like to change that It is 30 years old and dominates the word processing market, but Microsoft Word ...

For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google’s productivity ...

Microsoft Word is easily the biggest, most popular word processing program available, but it does a lot more than just edit text and TPS reports. If you’ve been telling yourself that you’ll finally ...

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 ...

I was having dinner with friends the other day and we started talking about word processing programs we’d all used in office jobs. “You know, I’ve been using Word for over 20 years,” I said, and ...

I've been writing about software and hardware for PCMag for more than 40 years, focusing on operating systems, office suites, and communication and utility apps. I've specialized in everything related ...

Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used word processing programs in the world. It is one element of the software package, Microsoft Office, which also includes other well-known programs such as ...

Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word are part of the Microsoft Office package of productivity software. They're also some of the most widely used software programs in the world, particularly in terms of ...

Windows has a few good word processors available, but when it comes to the majority of users, the free LibreOffice should serve any word processing needs you have. LibreOffice's biggest advantage, of ...

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 ...

Artwork: Chip Taylor 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.