All three programs handle basic word processing chores—creating, editing, and applying basic formatting to text—just fine.

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Despite the many tools already available for collaborative word processing, most people would still rather e-mail different versions of a document to each other. TextFlow, a new Web-based word ...

I don’t even see a way to get a word count or do a spell check. None of Quip’s variants have traditional menus or toolbars or other standard-issue word-processing interface elements.