The $495 package, developed by New York City-headquartered Dragonfly Software, runs on the IBM-PC and compatible computers. In many ways it takes after another word-processing program, XyWrite, a ...

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 ...

For instance, if you want to bold text, you simply highlight it and press the usual shortcut. The same applies when you want to add links or italicize a line. Notally also includes rich text ...

Note takers, take note. A new breed of software is taking the humble word processor out of the age of the typewriter and ushering it into the age of the Internet. These new "note taking" programs go ...

If you own a Mac, there are plenty of word processors to choose from. Whether you’re penning a research paper for college, a report for your boss or your next bestselling novel, there’s an app that’ll ...

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Getting into coding can seem intimidating, with countless languages, frameworks, and methodologies to consider. It may even ...

Based on what I saw in the beta version (released today) of Corel's new Wordperfect Lightning (I have a video as well as a screen gallery), the freely downloadable lightweight collaborative word ...

Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word are part of the Microsoft Office package of productivity software. They're also some of the most widely used software programs in the world, particularly in terms of ...

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