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Article Excerpt
In the competitive world of personal computers, software companies act like little empires, conquering related programs and gobbling up the territory they once held. Programs continually add features, causing other software that once consisted of only those features to go away.
The most commonly used office-type program, the word processor, is a case in point. Popular programs such as Microsoft Word now include a spelling and grammar checker, thesaurus, clip art, hyper-linking, page layout, envelope and label creation, mail merge, and other tools that you once needed other programs for.
But niches still exist for enterprising third-party companies to provide add-ons enabling you to do useful things that Word alone can't. Two good ones released relatively recently are Word...
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