With all the divisions in this country, it’s amazing that the ability to round out your letters has become controversial, writes Laurel Vermilyea Cortes.

If you can read cursive, the National Archives would like a word. Or a few million. More than 200 years worth of U.S. documents need transcribing (or at least classifying) and the vast majority ...

Checking the word count on Google Docs helps track document length. Follow this quick guide to easily find and use the word count feature. Word count serves as one way to measure the length of a ...

One consequence of our digital age is a decline in cursive, the flowing style of penmanship ... pages have margin notes, crossed-out words, or ink that bleeds through the other side of the page.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – America’s premiere record-keeping department is looking for volunteers who are familiar with the dying art of cursive handwriting. The National Archives has around 300 ...

In 2010, the newly established Common Core State Standards program, which outlines skills and knowledge students should acquire between kindergarten and high school, did not include cursive in its ...

If you’re brave enough to enable Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Microsoft Word and wade through its security warnings, you can now play Doom right inside your word processor. To make ...

In a nutshell: Netherlands-based software engineer Wojciech Graj has created another unusual port of the iconic first-person shooter Doom, ingeniously embedding it within a Microsoft Word document.

Raise your hand if you’re one of the remaining few who can still read cursive! It’s a dying art in the age of the keyboard, and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA ...

This is One Thing, a column with tips on how to live. Growing up in Saudi Arabia, I learned cursive with a fountain pen in the third grade as part of the standard curriculum. I wasn’t good at ...

Get a read on this. The National Archives is seeking volunteers who can read cursive to help transcribe more than 300 million digitized objects in its catalog, saying the skill is a “superpower.” ...

You might be if you can read cursive. And just like those superheroes ... "As we add tags or transcriptions to records, all of those words are added to our Catalog and it helps improve search ...