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 ...

Google Docs and Google's Cloud Connect toolbar for Microsoft Office combine to let you do simple editing of Word and Excel files on an iPad without having to pay for a separate app. Dennis O'Reilly ...

For many millions of students and professionals, Microsoft Word's red squiggly underlines for spelling mistakes are essentially an icon of modern computing. Well, those squigglies aren't going ...

A former editor of the Oxford English Dictionary secretly deleted words he didn’t like. A-ha! So there is another perk of editing the dictionary beyond license to deliver “if you look up X in the ...

With introductory pricing of just $4.99, support for Excel editing imminent, and easy synchronization with the desktop, this mobile word processor definitely belongs on your short list. Rick Broida is ...

When you spellcheck a word in QuickBooks, the program checks it against its dictionary file to see if the word is spelled correctly. If the word is not in the dictionary file, QuickBooks gives you the ...

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 ...