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Last Update: Wed, 06/03/2009 - 08:58 — mea1

Full featured word processor faster than Open Office.  Faster and more stable than Word.

Completely FREE.

http://www.softmakeroffice.com/

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#1Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 06:48.

Abiword is another free alternative to Word.

www.filehippo.com/download_abiword/

#2Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 09:19.

I print books as a hobby. I use Word with Text Boxes, I have not been able to find another program that will open this kind of document...
Colin J...

#3Submitted by peter on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 10:17.

Have you tried this?
TextMaker Viewer (4 MB) [free].
TextMaker Viewer lets you open, view and print documents from Microsoft Word, TextMaker, OpenOffice.org, OpenDocument as well as other common office file formats.
See also:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/i-want-freeware-program-t...

#4Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 09:38.

This one does...
Colin J...

#5Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 06/07/2009 - 10:11.

Which one?

#6Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 13:57.

see also http://www.zpressing.com

#7Submitted by peter on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 14:36.

Why?

#8Submitted by miskairal on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 00:29.

I have both OpenOffice and Softmaker. Softmaker opens much faster so I use it for everyday jobs however I find OpenOffice (which is way too slow to open to compete seriously with Word) better for bigger tasks. Softmaker's TextMaker opens and saves as .odt and .doc files but PlanMaker seems to only open and save .xls files and not .ods

Softmaker also has it' own file formats which are .tmd for TextMaker and .pmd for PlanMaker.

#9Submitted by peter on Sat, 06/06/2009 - 13:49.

See also:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/word-processor-replacement.htm

#10Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 06/05/2009 - 17:41.

I don't use Word. I've been using OpenOffice.org since the 90s and exchange documents with colleagues at will. I'll stick with OpenOffice.org over SoftMaker Office, it looks OK but I see no reason to switch (OpenOffice.org isn't slow for me). If you're just looking for a Word alternative there's also AbiWord.

#11Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 16:23.

No, most people use Word, Excel etc... so it doesn't matter for the majority of people, I only know ONE person in real life who doesn't use Word. This new addition seems good though.

#12Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 14:21.

Many people now use Open Office instead of Word, Excel etc.,

Nothing on that page says whether it is compatible with Open Office documents. Can it load odt for example, or save as odt?

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