Utah's WordPerfect was the dominant PC word processing application for a almost a decade. It was a significant reason for the success of the IBM PC.

Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in.

Learn how to use the Paste Special command in many word processors (including Microsoft's); Word's file format options explained.

No matter what word processor you do your typing through, you can switch to voice dictation if you need to—here's how to do it.

Apple includes a free, basic word processing program called TextEdit on all machines running OS X, its computer operating system. Use TextEdit to open Word documents on your Apple computer.

Create an account or log in to save stories. Evelyn Berezin, a computer scientist who designed the world's first word processor, has died at the age of 93. In addition to revolutionizing how the ...