Microsoft 365 is the de facto option. But if you just need to open, edit, and create basic documents, you don’t have to spend anything.

All Macs come with a free word processor app called Pages. As good as it is, if you want something that plays a little more nicely with Microsoft Word, you might be tempted to try the free, open ...

Here are ten of our favourite Mac word processing apps, including great alternatives to Word and Pages, and some free options.

If you don't want to pay for the word processor, and Google Docs won’t work for what you need, you have options.

The word processor, called “Writer,” can handle documents from Microsoft Word, and the rest of the LibreOffice suite can upload and modify files from their corresponding Office programs.

Pages, Apple's alternative to Microsoft Word, is deceptively simple. Here are three ways to get the most of Apple's free word processing app, including a Pages cheat sheet.

Google Docs - the online staple for word processing that is up there with Microsoft Word in terms of capabilities; plus, it's all online, works well on mobile, and you get 15GB of free storage.

I believe that many people who compose written documents using a word processor or page layout app like Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, Adobe InDesign or Quark Xpress do themselves a disservice. Word ...

Microsoft Corp. plans to phase out WordPad, the free word processor that has shipped with Windows for the past 28 years. The company disclosed the move in a support note released on Friday.

You may want to look at other word processing apps for iOS for free or that you can buy outright. Apple’s Pages is free, and it can open, edit and save Word documents.