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 ...

As ambitious apps such as Notion and Coda think beyond word processing in its classic form, even Microsoft and Google are taking notice. The result could be the first major paradigm shift for document ...

Microsoft Word is easily the biggest, most popular word processing program available, but it does a lot more than just edit text and TPS reports. If you’ve been telling yourself that you’ll finally ...

Word macros can take almost any repetitive word-processing task and do it for you faster, in just a few keystrokes. Here’s a classic example: You’ve received a document with incorrect formatting ...

In business, job descriptions often don't stay static. If you're used to creating tables, charts and graphs, you may end up writing correspondence or produce business reports, which will require some ...

The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an ...

A word processor is a program designed for creating and editing business and personal documents that are primarily text-based. Most modern word processors enable you to customize fonts and formatting ...

In the middle part of this decade, Microsoft engaged in an extensive effort to create open standards derived from its own XML-based file formats, such as XPS and Office XML. This work was widely ...

This post will show you how to redline a Word document. Redlining documents is making changes to a document that allows users to see which changes were made. It’s an important feature when you have ...

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