Would you replace MS Office with OmegaOffice? No way! There is no (free or commercial) replacement yet for MS Office, to be frank — but if you don’t really need all the wealth of features offered by Microsoft’s suite, OmegaOffice is a collection of free programs that resembles MS Office and are able to support […]
Tag: word processor
I’m never tired of trying free Word Processors, hoping to find a real alternative to Microsoft Word. Atlantis Nova is inspired by Word and it even saves its documents only as doc(x) and rtf. However, the first impression one gets after installing it, is that it may be described as a poor man’s version of […]
LyX is a free and unique text editor, mainly aiming at academic use, facilitating work on formulas and professional editing of scientific studies. The program won’t provide an exciting interface, but you may find attractive the way it handles the creation of bibliographies or indexes, tables, and of course equations, etc. It also lets you […]
FocusWriter is a free and easy to use text editor aiming at helping you to write without distractions. The program starts as a white page placed on a desktop. This interface covers completely the Windows desktop, including the taskbar. When you bring your mouse over screen edges, menu items appear for you to utilize program […]
AbiWord is a free word processing program that tries to compete with Microsoft Word. It supports many formats including of course Word documents, and you can use it even for advanced document layout. The program is able to handle tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes, mail merge, and styles. Its interface comes in a lot […]
AkelPad is a light, fast and free editor for plain text. It offers simple and multi windows modes and is able to open huge files. Features: Support of Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003); Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8); Support of any codepage installed in the system; Support of […]
If you need to check spelling in applications that do not include a spelling checker and you don’t want to launch your word processor just for that, you can use tinySpell. It is a small utility that allows you to check and correct the spelling in any Windows application. ΤinySpell can watch your typing on the fly […]
OpenOffice is an attempt for a complete replacement of MS Office. In my opinion, it can be named “the poor relative”, although OpenOffice.org presents dithyrambic reviews that claim the opposite. Since it is free, you can just try it and decide by yourself to uninstall or keep using it. It includes the following applications — Writer […]
LibreOffice is a free productivity suite containing six applications for document production and data processing: Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base. Support and documentation is free and comes from a community of users, contributors and developers. LibreOffice is a decent productivity suite, not as feature rich and shining as MS Office, but it is […]