For instance, WordPad is a word processing application that supports formatting and several other rich-text features, while Notepad is a text editor meant only to write plain text.

How to Open Word Documents if You Don't Have Word. Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format.

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 ...

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 ...

Utah's WordPerfect was the dominant PC word processing application for a almost a decade. It was a significant reason for the success of the IBM PC.

Long before GPUs and multicore processors were a thing, Microsoft decided to enter the lucrative world of business software with its word processing application, Word.

Google Docs is finally getting a feature that is already available in just about every other word processing application ever: real-time word counts. Yes, Google… ...

After a few weeks of working with Word 2008, it’s apparent that there is a major convergence between how Apple and Microsoft think a word processing application should work. While Word hasn’t ...

How to Group & Ungroup in MS Word. The Microsoft Word word processing application enables you to make adjustments, such as sizing, rotation and flipping, to your pictures, shapes and other objects ...

While Apple’s Pages word processing application is becoming more commonly used, there are times when you might need to convert a Pages doc to a Microsoft Word doc. Luckily Apple has built in a ...

WordStar's most recent claim to fame might be that it's the word processing application on which George R.R. Martin is still not finishing A Song of Ice and Fire. But many writers loved and still ...