If you look at a document as nothing more than a disconnected Web page, Branchfire has an app for you: Folia. Folia, available for free for the iPad, OS X, Android, and Windows 8, is a really ...

LibreOffice Writer gives me everything I need from Word and Docs without subscriptions, accounts, or cloud lock-in.

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 ...

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 ...

Unlike the iPhone and iPod touch, the iPad was designed with the needs of typists in mind. The screen size, the large virtual keyboard in landscape orientation, and the support for external keyboards ...

Document.Editor is an open source multitab VB.Net/WPF Ribbon UI based word processor for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Support Spell Check, Text to Speech, Translate and Definitions.

30 years later and our word processing software hasn’t evolved, not even to adapt to mobile. That changes tonight with the launch of Quip, a freemium new word processing app from former Facebook CTO ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here is the new Pages for iOS, as announced by Apple last night. Not a huge amount has changed here, to be honest, but there are one or two nice additions, stuff that help Pages retain its top spot in ...

If you use Microsoft Word (or a similar word processor), you probably know well enough how to save a document. You click Save, choose a folder, give the document a name, and then click Save, OK, or ...