Which word processor is best: Word 2011, iWork '09, or Google Docs? Jeffery Battersby used all three to create a typical business report; here's how he'd rank them.

The Mac comes with apps for writing notes, letters, and even books, but take the time to look further and there are superb writing apps for every aspect of writing.

Now that Microsoft's Office Web Apps is open to the public, how does its online word processor compare with Google's?

Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Word users to save documents to the cloud, with the AutoSave function that stores ...

If you tell someone that you think Pages is a better word-processing app than Microsoft Word, they might ask if you're feeling okay. But even though Word is the dominant force, there are some ...

From the beginning, the iPhone could read Microsoft Word documents, but now you'll be able to do basic word processing on it with gOffice for iPhone.

You may want to look at other word processing apps for iOS for free or that you can buy outright. Apple’s Pages is free, and it can open, edit and save Word documents.

Am I dense or am I just using the wrong apps? So far it looks to me like all word processing apps I tried are sorely lacking in terms of Dropbox integration. No matter what tool I tried I always ...

Word processors and page layout apps provide too many distractions from the act of getting words onto the page. I bear no ill will toward Word, Pages, and the others, they’re excellent tools for ...

Word 2008 takes a page out of iWork's book, adding a new page layout view on top of a streamlined interface. Jeffery Battersby shares his first impressions of the updated word processor.