“Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing,” an upcoming book by Professor Matthew Kirschenbaum, will cover the first authors to use word processors and how they saw the tool in relation to ...

The literary history of the early years of word processing—the late 1960s through the mid-’80s—forms the subject of Matthew G. Kirschenbaum’s new book, Track Changes. The year 1984 was a key moment ...

It’s hard to believe, but one of the most important changes in the way people write in the last 50 years has been largely overlooked by historians of literature. The word processor—that is, any ...

Google has acquired Upstartle, the Silicon Valley-based maker of online word processor Writely. It gives Google yet another tool in its kit of applications to take on Microsoft — and brush aside its ...

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...

As someone with ADHD who writes for a living, I need to block out as many distractions as possible when I’m writing. I ...

In “Vote for Your Favorite Mac Word Processor” (10 July 2017), we asked you to rate the Mac word processors that you’ve used. Over 800 TidBITS readers responded to our survey of 21 apps, submitting ...

Text can be deleted, typed over or inserted, and words at the right margin wrap to the next line. Text can be centered between left and right margins. Text can be copied or moved within the document, ...

Unlike the iPhone and iPod touch, the iPad was designed with the needs of typists in mind. The screen size, the large virtual keyboard in landscape orientation, and the support for external keyboards ...

Dedicated word processors are not something we see much of anymore. They were in a weird space: computerized, but not really what you could call a computer, even in those days. More like a fancy ...

Microsoft Word can ably edit PDFs with lots of text, but it can’t replace a dedicated PDF editor for complex documents. Microsoft doesn’t include a PDF editor in its Office suite, but it has made it ...