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Car
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 Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:35 pm Post subject: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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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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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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Carl wrote:
| Quote: | 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 |
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ctowers
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:02 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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Carl wrote:
| Quote: | 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.
Look here, they are all good - |
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/2007/PL2007TEXT.php
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JS
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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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."
JS
"Carl" <carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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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Don Schmidt
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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If looking for a text editor, Notepad+ is very good.
http://www.mypeecee.org/rogsoft/
If looking for a word processor, I've heard that Open Office is good.
http://www.openoffice.org/
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Don
Vancouver, USA
"Carl" <carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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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Shenan Stanley
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| Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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Carl wrote:
| Quote: | 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/
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Mike Cawood, HND BIT
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 12:30 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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"Carl" <carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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
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. |
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Sam Hobbs
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 8:15 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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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
"Carl" <carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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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Stan Brown
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:35:01 GMT from Carl <carlhammel1@gmail.com>:
| Quote: | 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.
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Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/ |
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Ken Blake, MVP
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:35:01 GMT, Carl<carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | 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.
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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Poprivet`
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| Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:57 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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JS wrote:
| Quote: | 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.
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JS
"Carl" <carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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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Xandros
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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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.
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Xandros
"Carl" <carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote in message
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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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Sam Hobbs
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:11 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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WordPad is highly limited and Ken Blake already mentioned it.
"Xandros" <arron.neus*remove*@gmailcom> wrote in message
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| Quote: | 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. |
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Wally
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| Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:35:01 GMT, Carl<carlhammel1@gmail.com> wrote:
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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. |
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Sam Hobbs
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: Re: Suggestions for freeware word processor |
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And I previously suggested that. I am not really familiar with it so it
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