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 ...

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 ...

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 changed ...

A word processor is a program designed for creating and editing business and personal documents that are primarily text-based. Most modern word processors enable you to customize fonts and formatting ...

In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based file formats, such as XPS and Office XML. This work was widely ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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For the study, published in PLoS ONE, 40 German scientists with varying degrees of word-processing expertise were each given 30 minutes to replicate three pages of a journal article — a mixture of ...

ITworld.com – In one form or another, I do words for a living. I spend part of my time writing words (as I am doing right now). I also spend part of my time writing complex sets of words (known as ...