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 ...

When I last reviewed Nisus Writer Express (version 2.1) back in 2005, it was a pretty decent writing tool. It had powerful formatting via styles (character and paragraph), tables, images, columns, ...

Microsoft Office is the world's most ubiquitous business software suite. From basic word processing to data analysis to communication and more, Office is trusted in virtually all industries, from ...

No doubt about it: Microsoft Office is the 800-pound gorilla of productivity suites, both on the Mac and on Windows. In the latest version, Office 2011, the product teams have added lots of zing both ...

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 ...

From the beginning, the iPhone could read Microsoft Word documents, but now you’ll be able to do basic word processing on it with gOffice for iPhone. Developer Kevin Warnock created this mini ...

One of the major complaints regarding Linux as a feasible alternative to the Microsoft Windows environment on desktops has been the lack of usable, Linux-based business productivity software. In ...

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 ...

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 ...