Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. These can vary from format converters, document importers and thesauruses to image importers and a text format managers.AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more. What's also nice is that AbiWord is fully customisable with several different plugins to extend its capabilities. This makes it especially suitable for those working on slower machines who haven't got a decent word processor installed. Although the editing options can't compare with Word, I do like the fact that this is a very light word processor that doesn't take up much more processing power than even MS Text. It also features support for WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages etc. This is the portable version which means you can put it on a USB stick and take it pretty much anywhere.

I've always used MS Word for my word processing needs but if you don't have Office installed, then it's not exactly a cheap option.ĪbiWord can read and write all standard industry docs ranging from open source efforts such as those created in OpenOffice to those created in professional apps such as Microsoft Word. It also has a plugin system allowing you to add features with available add-on plugins. It includes both grammar and spelling checkers as well as an array of other handy features including mail merge capabilities. It is suitable for a variety of word processing activities and supports a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Open Document (), Office Open XML (MS Word 2007), RTF, HTML, Palm and more. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.ĪbiWord Portable is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. AbiWord Portable is the lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your documents on the go.

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