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[[Microsoft Word]] is the most widely used word processing software. Microsoft estimates that over 500,000,000 people use the [[Microsoft Office]] suite,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2009/jan09/01-08cesofficeqaschultz.mspx |title=Microsoft Office Is Right at Home |date=January 8, 2009 |publisher=Microsoft |accessdate=August 14, 2010}}</ref> which includes Word. Many other word processing applications exist, including [[WordPerfect]] (which dominated the market from the mid-1980s to early-1990s on computers running Microsoft's [[MS-DOS]] [[operating system]]) and [[open source]] applications [[OpenOffice.org Writer]], [[AbiWord]], [[KWord]], and [[LyX]]. Web-based word processors, such as [[Office Web Apps]] or [[Google Docs]], are a relatively new category.

'''==Characteristics=='''

''Word processing'' typically implies the presence of text manipulation functions that extend beyond a basic ability to enter and change text, such as automatic generation of:

*batch mailings using a form letter [[template (word processing)|template]] and an address database (also called mail merging);