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 ...

When I last reviewed Nisus Writer Express (version 2.1) back in 2005, it was a pretty decent writing tool. It had powerful formatting via styles (character and paragraph), tables, images, columns, ...

Microsoft Office is the world's most ubiquitous business software suite. From basic word processing to data analysis to communication and more, Office is trusted in virtually all industries, from ...

One of the major complaints regarding Linux as a feasible alternative to the Microsoft Windows environment on desktops has been the lack of usable, Linux-based business productivity software. In ...

While Word is commonly used for basic word processing, you can also use it as a design and planning tool. To prepare a page schematic for your Web page using Word, shrink your document's margins to ...

Notepad, a text editor, performs relatively fewer functions than WordPad and MS Word. On the other hand, WordPad and Word are very close to each other but still distinct in many ways. This post will ...

Part of the Microsoft Office suite, Microsoft Word serves as a basic word processing program -- virtually no business is exempt from the need for word processing, so it's vital to know exactly how to ...