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 ...

Word processing apps are as old as the personal computer, but what counts as a “word processor” turns out to be almost as contentious as determining the “best” word processor. In this TidBITS reader ...

Mac OS X only: Free, open source application Bean is a lightweight, Cocoa-based word processor for Macs. When we highlighted NeoOffice, the Mac-like port of OpenOffice.org, a lot of readers wanted to ...

The default format for documents that you create for your business using the Mac's native word processor application TextEdit is RTF, or Rich Text Format. An RTF document includes formatting for ...

On your Mac, there's TextEdit (free) which is so simple and basic that you'd think you've stepped back to computers of the 1980s. However, it's so simple and basic, it so very much does not add ...

Microsoft Word remains the standard way to create and share text documents, whether you’re in a corporate or educational organisation. In recent years, it’s definitely had its iron-clad grip loosened ...

I recently wrote about Ilys, a Web app focused on helping writers write rather than edit. It was all about creative flow over granular perfectionism. First Draft is a Mac app with a similar goal but a ...

I am an engineering student and a slow note taker. I have been able to write notes on my laptop for my non-tech classes (just a handful) and find this incredibly convenient. However, I cannot type my ...

It took less than 5 minutes of using Word for iPad to have an overwhelming first impression: I hope Word on every platform becomes what Word on the iPad is. Sleek, uncluttered, well organized, and ...