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| Author: | FarSky [ Fri May 23, 2014 10:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Best free Windows word processor? |
I'm setting up my 'rents' new lappy and they need a good word processor. Any suggestions? I haven't touched Windows in five years, and back then, Open Office was The Thing. |
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| Author: | shuyung [ Fri May 23, 2014 10:17 pm ] |
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OpenOffice has forked. LibreOffice is, I believe, the preferred package by FOSS advocates, but OpenOffice is still fine. |
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| Author: | Numbuk [ Mon May 26, 2014 1:37 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best free Windows word processor? |
Google docs isn't bad. It autosaves as you type, which can be very handy, as well as being stored in the cloud. Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | Shelgeyr [ Mon May 26, 2014 6:09 am ] |
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If they don't need all the bells and whistles, WordPad is free and gets the job done - to a point. If they need more oomph than that, and can accept the "must have internet access" restriction, a free Microsoft Live account comes with access to all the web-based apps on Office.com:  If they need a full-featured offline word processor, sorry - haven't used anything but Word in a long, long time. |
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| Author: | FarSky [ Mon May 26, 2014 8:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best free Windows word processor? |
Forgot to mention...no internet. Has to be totally offline. |
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| Author: | Khross [ Mon May 26, 2014 1:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best free Windows word processor? |
I second shuyung's recommendation of LibreOffice. Oracle terminated the driving forces behind the Document Foundation and liquidated them in a workforce reduction. There are some legal issues still floating around out there over a few bits of code, but Apache OpenOffice is the product you remember; LibreOffice is a superior FOSS fork that is working toward the standards established by Sun and the Document Foundation in the early part of the last decade. Oracle OpenOffice is a retail product that like almost all other Oracle products is best left forgotten at this point. *wanders off mumbling about evil, money grubbing parasites* |
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