Adobe has acquired BuzzWord, a beautiful Flash-based word processor. But we recommend against using it until the company can add in necessary features. Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products ...

For serious writers, especially those creating nonfiction or content that is derived from a free flowing stream of consciousness, distractions can get in the way of your creative process. If you use ...

As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I ...

Though Microsoft is undoubtedly the word processing giant, it’s not the end all in the market. Expand your horizons with these options that will have you drafting documents in no time. When you think ...

When it comes to word processing, most people—and most businesses—still think of Microsoft Word. Whether it's a résumé or an essay, it's most likely to come as a .docx file, the universally recognized ...

I never thought that teaching my law students basic word processing principles would be part of my professorial duties; but since I started my First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, I realized that, if ...

In brief: Before Microsoft Word became the de-facto standard for word processing on the PC, the market was rich with choice. WordStar is a program many great writers started their career on, and now ...

The old ways still have value. WordStar, an MS-DOS-based word-processing program first released in 1978, can live a little longer thanks to the archiving efforts of one of its biggest fans—Hugo and ...