If you are an absolute green horn to word processing, then let Microsoft handhold you through the basics. The makers of the software have a nice free 'Introductory training to Word', which is as ...

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 ...

Word has improved since Office 2004, and now provides more scope for precision layout and effects, but this was always Pages' virtue, straddling the divide between word processing and DTP.

But I’ve found that nothing beats my Improbable, Impractical Word Processing Machine when it comes to distraction-free writing. I can’t Alt+Tab over to check an email or two.

An app designed to work best on mobile has taken cloud-based word processing and given it the sharing capabilities of Evernote.