Microsoft Word Alternative

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  1. Posts : 50
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    Microsoft Word Alternative


    I'm looking for a lightweight program that does everything that MSWORD does? Any suggestions?
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  2. whs
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    Try Open Office. Not sure whether you would consider it lightweight, but it does most everything that Office 2007 does. And it is free. The next best would be Wordpad. But hat has a lot less function than Word.
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    Openoffice is most commonly mentioned, but you can't use the word lightweight in conjunction with it :) I found this, a start:

    http://www.reviewsaurus.com/online-o...-alternatives/

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    Well I have this installed on my flash disk so I always have my favourite apps with me all the time Portable App Directory | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives Great when you work on a lot of different PC's and never know what you may come across
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  5. Posts : 50
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    DirtRider said:
    Well I have this installed on my flash disk so I always have my favourite apps with me all the time Portable App Directory | PortableApps.com - Portable software for USB drives Great when you work on a lot of different PC's and never know what you may come across
    Nice, is that site you can download the portable straight from it? Isn't pirated? - If you can, cool site!
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    Armpits said:
    I'm looking for a lightweight program that does everything that MSWORD does? Any suggestions?
    Personally, I use OOo, and I set the defaults for Microsoft products, but, you might want to take a look at AbiWord. I haven't used it, but, I assume it's available for Win7, and it's well thought of in the open source community...

    AbiWord


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    A Guy said:
    Openoffice id most commonly mentioned, but you can't use the word lightweight in conjunction with it :) I found this, a start:
    Really? The entire openoffice suite with all available plugins (370 MB on one of my older boxes) takes up less HDD space than MS Word 2010 alone (910 MB). In linux, openoffice apps start with 0 delay. Click the icon and it's there instantly. Not quite as fast in windows, but still a lot faster and lighter than Word. I'm sure there's something out there lighter that that, but can it read and edit .docx documents?
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  8. whs
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    In linux, openoffice apps start with 0 delay. Click the icon and it's there instantly.
    I assume that this is a matter of your system configuration. In my system, Word or PP start instantly too - but they are on a SSD.
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  9. Posts : 53,363
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    madtownidiot said:
    A Guy said:
    Openoffice id most commonly mentioned, but you can't use the word lightweight in conjunction with it :) I found this, a start:
    Really? The entire openoffice suite with all available plugins (370 MB on one of my older boxes) takes up less HDD space than MS Word 2010 alone (910 MB). In linux, openoffice apps start with 0 delay. Click the icon and it's there instantly. Not quite as fast in windows, but still a lot faster and lighter than Word. I'm sure there's something out there lighter that that, but can it read and edit .docx documents?
    I'm remembering (perhaps incorrectly) a huge download of Open Office years ago. Sorry if I was mistaken. A Guy
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    It's still a pretty big download, especially if you don't have a very fast connection.
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