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 ...

You have plenty of choices when it comes to word processing software, but the most obvious (and popular and ubiquitous) of those choices are Microsoft’s Word 2011 ( ), Apple’s Pages ’09 ( ), and ...

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, ...

I use evernote as my basic word processor on my iPhone (and my iPad). The reason is that it cloud syncs. If you get a paid account it also tracks versions. Once writing is done I switch to my desktop ...

Adobe Systems' beta release of the free Acrobat.com suite Monday should appeal to small-business users. In our early tests, the stand-outs are tools for Web conferencing and directly sharing text and ...

Before there were personal computers, there were dedicated word processors. These large desktop systems were, in effect, computers that would run only one program-their built-in writing software. The ...

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 ...