Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Microsoft today announced a new feature for Word: a ...

For years, Microsoft Word has included spell checking, grammar checking, and bibliography tools to help students and others polish their writing skills. You can think ...

As we inch closer to back-to-school season, Microsoft is ready to help students tackle their homework. The company has introduced new tools for Word aimed at making those research papers a little ...

Microsoft announced the integration of new artificial intelligence tools into its office software such as Word, Excel, and Outlook emails on Thursday, March 16. The tech giant unveiled a new feature ...

Microsoft Word is all too easy to hate. As one of my colleagues at Slate put it in a recent conversation, the venerable program’s ubiquity makes it a bit like the cable company of the software world: ...

Q. I have used Microsoft Word’s speech recognition tool for years, and I’ve been very pleased with how well it works. However, I’ve recently upgraded to a new ...

After a 30-year run, Microsoft has discontinued WordPad, leaving fans of this simple word processor upset. Fortunately, there ...

It has been 24 years since Microsoft first released Word, and four years since the program’s last major upgrade. How much more can Microsoft do to tweak its venerable word processor? Surprisingly, ...

For the last few decades, Microsoft Word has been the de facto standard for word processors across the working world. That’s finally starting to shift, and it looks like one of Google’s productivity ...

Microsoft is letting go of its WordPad feature after its launch three years ago. This text editor will no longer be supported with any new updates as the company will stop its focus on the ...