Suggestions for freeware word processor

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Folks here were kind enough to suggest several freeware anti-virus an
anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and installed one of eac
on their recommendations
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming fro
the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile and whic
not
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor called TextEdit. I
can open Word documents, etc
There has to be something like that for PCs

Thanks
Car
 
Carl said:
Folks here were kind enough to suggest several
freeware anti-virus and
anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and
installed one of
each on their recommendations.
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor?
Again, coming
from the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones
are worthwhile and
which not.
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor
called TextEdit.
It can open Word documents, etc.
There has to be something like that for PCs.

Thanks,
Carl
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Open Office; google
 
Carl said:
Folks here were kind enough to suggest several freeware anti-virus and
anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and installed one of
each on their recommendations.
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming
from the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile and
which not.
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor called TextEdit.
It can open Word documents, etc.
There has to be something like that for PCs.
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Look here, they are all good -
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007TEXT.php
 
Carl said:
Folks here were kind enough to suggest several freeware anti-virus
and anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and installed
one of each on their recommendations.
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming
from the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile
and which not.
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor called TextEdit.
It can open Word documents, etc.
There has to be something like that for PCs.
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OpenOffice
http://www.openoffice.org/
 
Carl said:
Folks here were kind enough to suggest several freeware anti-virus and
anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and installed one of each
on their recommendations.
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming from
the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile and which
not.
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor called TextEdit. It
can open Word documents, etc.
There has to be something like that for PCs.

Thanks,
Carl
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It's a full office application but OpenOffice.org is very good
http://www.openoffice.org/
It's open source software & available free to use (not shareware).
Regards Mike.
 
As Don Schmidt's reply indicated, there is a difference between text editors
and word processors. Text editors often have features more useful for
programmers and other technical stuff.

I am not familiar with Open Office except to know it is popular and highly
useful, but it is not lightweight!

I once researched SourceForge for word processors, preferably lightweight
(small) ones. The following are relatively small but seem useful. The UI of
Jarte is quite different and probably relatively unique, so it is likely
people will either really like it or really not like it.

AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com

Jarte
http://www.jarte.com
 
Sat said:
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming from
the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile and which
not.
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Do you want a word processor or a text editor?

For a word processor, openoffice.org -- for a text editor,
http://www.vim.org . Not only is Vim excellent in its own right, but
it's available for virtually every platform. Even the source code is
freely available, so you'll never again be forced to use different
editors in different environments.
 
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming from
the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile and which
not.
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor called TextEdit. It
can open Word documents, etc.
There has to be something like that for PCs.
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Your subject line says "word processor," but the above says "text
editor." Be aware that these are two very different things. A text
editor essentially produces simple unformatted text, while a word
processor has far more capability with respect to formatting, fonts,
graphics, etc.

If all you want is a text editor, Windows comes with the plain vanilla
Notepad, and the slightly more capable and word-processor-like
Wordpad. Although there are more capable freeware text editors
available, you should start with those, and determine what additional
capability you need, if any, before investigating alternatives. One of
those might meet your needs.

On the other hand, if you want a freeware word processor, many people
are happy with the word-processing component of OpenOffice. It will
open Word documents, and retain most of their formatting.
 
JS said:
Open Office:
http://www.openoffice.org/product/

"WRITER can of course read all your old Microsoft
Word documents, or
save your work in Microsoft Word format for sending
to people who are
still locked into Microsoft products."
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True. And it's an excellent word processor. Caveat:
It doesn't support quite a few Word features, so if
you're an advanced Word user, check it out for
usability for your intent, especially if you're passing
anything important back and forth to people.
If you're not an advanced user or especially if
you're a neophyte, then it's an outstanding place to
get started. In fact, the whole suite is.
There is also Star Office, BTW. Again, free.
 
Windows comes with WordPad which is a very basic wordprocessor that can open
..DOC files (it cannot open DOCX files).
However if you want good freeware use OpenOffice.
 
Folks here were kind enough to suggest several freeware anti-virus and
anti-spyware applications and I have downloaded and installed one of each
on their recommendations.
Can anyone recommend a decent freeware text editor? Again, coming from
the Macintosh "world" I don't know which ones are worthwhile and which
not.
Macs come with a quite decent freeware text editor called TextEdit. It
can open Word documents, etc.
There has to be something like that for PCs.

Thanks,
Carl
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Note Tab Light - For text

http://www.notetab.com/

Word processing

http://www.abisource.com/


There are a lot of different ones out there.
 
So what are you trying to achieve by pointing that out Sam? Attempting to
police groups like this is a colossal waste of time and bandwidth. Let it go
and be happy.
 
Or you could just say sorry and that is the end of that, instead of
continuing to insist. That would be the least bandwidth.
 
Do either one of you think you're affecting the band width? By how much? How
many electrons were wasted?
 
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