Yes, there are alternatives to Microsoft Corp.’s omnipresent Word text-editing application. One of them is the little-known TextMaker from German software vendor SoftMaker Software GmbH, which ...

Office HD: TextMaker brings the Windows text processing experience -- a wide variety of indispensable writing features as well as plenty of formatting and design options for creating high-quality ...

Though Microsoft is undoubtedly the word processing giant, it’s not the end all in the market. Expand your horizons with these options that will have you drafting documents in no time. When you think ...

German software vendor SoftMaker has followed on the heels of the release of its latest version of TextMaker with a free-for-download file viewer that opens practically every popular word processing ...

Consumers and small businesses seeking a desktop word processing program that looks and works much like Microsoft’s Word but costs only a fraction as much can take a peek at the Beta 2 version of ...

In an ideal world, you could create a Microsoft Word document on your desktop computer, put it on your Pocket PC, edit and format it on the road, and then send it back to the office as a .DOC file, ...

I was hoping somebody here could shed some light on the word processor called TextMaker. I was looking at the information on it since it is available in both a Windows and Linux version, and when I ...

Office suites for Android and iOS are plentiful thanks to Microsoft Office’s absence from these two popular mobile platforms. However, of the dozens that come up in search, only a handful approach ...

A few weeks ago, author N. K. Jemisin came to me with a problem. She’d bought an iPad so she could get some work done without having to lug her MacBook around, and wanted to know which word processing ...

Windows: With Office 2010 already available to corporations, documents you can't quite open in Office 2007 are soon to appear in your inbox. If you're not upgrading, or never use Office anyways, ...

Microsoft Office is the de facto standard for productivitytools, to the point at which word processors and spreadsheets arenow called “office programs.” But Office is costly, and it’sbloated with ...