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Patent For Help Function Sparks Legal Fight
News Microsoft's main competitor in the Japanese word-processing market has been ordered to stop selling its product because it infringes a patent filed by electronics giant Matsushita, according to reports on Monday.
[February 7, 2005, 16:35]
Google Opens Doors To Writely
News Five months after being bought by Google, the Writely online word-processing application is now open for anyone who wants to sign up and use it. But last Thursday, Google allowed anyone to join up and make use of the hosted word-processing...
[August 21, 2006, 16:25]
Google Brings Writely And Spreadsheets Together
News Google dived further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs. Google acquired the online word-processing application Writely in March and...
[October 12, 2006, 12:10]
Macromedia Case Study: Mamie Lou Gross Elementary
White Papers The site is a series of Web-based word processing tutorials, games, and quizzes for elementary school students. Sterling wanted to create a series of tutorials for her students that would allow them to develop their word processing skills in a...
[May 16, 2004, 0:00]
Google Lays Foundations For Office Rival
News Google has acquired the online word processing company Writely in a move that could bring the search giant into even closer competition with Microsoft. Writely is a hosted word processing package that allows users to edit and publish documents online.
[March 9, 2006, 18:50]
SAS Software And Microsoft Office Visual Basic For Applications Make Beautiful Reports Together
White Papers In pharmaceutical research, clinical study reports contain word-processing tables that are usually retyped from SAS output. On the other hand, if dedicated programs or report templates are created to output every word-processing table...
[June 15, 2007, 0:00]
Mobile Player Takes Aim At Office
News Germany-based SoftMaker, which has been selling word-processing software in its homeland since the mid-1980s, recently began to market its word-processing and spreadsheet software in the United States.
[April 23, 2004, 16:35]
Microsoft Office Word 2007 Rich Text Format (RTF) Specification
White Papers Currently, users depend on special translation software to move word-processing documents between various applications developed by different companies. RTF serves as both a standard of data transfer between word processing software, document...
[March 6, 2007, 23:00]
Corel Targets Microsoft Customers
News Regardless, Corel sees an opportunity for WordPerfect, once the dominant word-processing application but now largely an afterthought. The Canadian company, whose fortunes have zigzagged in recent years after a tough fight for financial survival, is...
[August 2, 2002, 9:58]
IWork Rumours Gain Credence
News Enthusiast site ThinkSecret reported last week that a product from Apple called iWork would include an updated version of Apple's presentation software, Keynote, and a new word processing program, which the site says will be called Pages.
[January 5, 2005, 11:25]
Reaping The Rewards Of Teleworking
News An Australia-based legal practice with international offices has had a successful remote workforce solution in place for about six years now, enabling a team of senior word processing operators to work full time from home.
[January 27, 2003, 10:39]
Microsoft Debuts Notepad Software
News Conceptually, OneNote, expected to debut by the middle of next year, is similar to word processing, but it is intended for quick handling of short notes as opposed to long multipart documents, Microsoft said.
[November 18, 2002, 8:15]
Converting Multiple SAS Output Files To Rich Text Format Automatically Without Using ODS
White Papers This paper walks through an example of looping through a series of SAS output files (.lst), converting them to rich text format files (.rtf), and making some post-processing changes automatically using simple SAS codes and an MS Word macro.
[December 25, 2006, 23:00]
Office Live Nearly Ready For Launch
News The company has been exploring the idea of online or ad-supported versions of its core word processing and spreadsheet programs, largely within its Works unit. Rival Google acquired online word-processing company Writely in March and introduced...
[November 1, 2006, 8:29]
Online PAs Provide The Personal Touch
News Hunt used to work as a personal assistant, and in 1994 when the Internet was still fairly new, she thought it would be a great medium to use for providing secretarial services such as word processing and desktop publishing.
[August 2, 2002, 14:32]
Charity Funds IT Training For Disadvantaged Groups
News McCrorie's worries proved unfounded and she received "an excellent pass" for the word-processing exam. I felt that, if I wanted to start work again, I would need to know word processing as everyone wants it these days.
[February 29, 2008, 13:29]
Microsoft Eyes New Ways To Sell Office
News One of the challenges is whether people really want to see ads when they are in a spreadsheet or word-processing program. Google, for its part, already offers Google Docs and Spreadsheets, a lightweight, web-based word processing and spreadsheet...
[July 12, 2007, 8:16]
Linux Taken For A Ride In The Old West
News For more, click here.a product called OpenOffice, so if you have basic word-processing or spreadsheet activities that don't need to be shared with someone that uses a different product, you should try OpenOffice — it's simple to use.
[February 20, 2006, 14:55]
Google Joins OpenDocument Group
News Google, whose Writely online word processing program supports ODF, joined the roster of 240 ODF Alliance members this week, Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF, said on Tuesday. Google has joined a group that is promoting an OpenDocument...
[July 13, 2006, 8:45]
Impressive
Member Review I use this for word processing, email, searching the web and for viewing other applications. It's a pleasure to use and the keyboard is great providing you turn off the function that lets it jump around if you knock the trackpad - easy to do in a...
[February 18, 2007, 16:44]
