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While there is no shortage of graphic design apps out there, power users can use Microsoft Word to create lovely brochures.

Word processing software also offers templates for putting together job resumes, brochures, flyers, ads, inventory sheets and letterhead. Many templates are free and easy to use.

For those using older versions of Microsoft Word, or other non-Microsoft word processing software, the new .docx format can be a real pain. It has caused dissension in some workplaces. How to cope ...

For decades, Microsoft Office has been the business world’s dominant productivity software suite. If you use word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and email applications, particularly on ...

Word processing - A type of software application used for composing, editing, formatting and printing documents. Software - The programs used to control computers and perform specific tasks.

When it comes to desktop software, there's the venerable OpenOffice, which includes a word processor as well as multiple other applications that you don't have to pay for. The office suite is ...

WordPerfect Office Home and Student, which contains the eponymous word processing software, as well as apps for making slideshows, spreadsheets, and taking notes, is marked down to $59.99 from $100.

Despite the many tools already available for collaborative word processing, most people would still rather e-mail different versions of a document to each other. TextFlow, a new Web-based word ...