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WordPad alternatives

  • LibreOffice - Writer

  • Writer has all the features you need from a modern, full-featured word processing or desktop publishing tool.

    tags: Portable export-to-word libreoffice live-meeting presentation-to-video
  • Google Drive - Docs

  • Google Docs is an online word processor, part of Google Drive , that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs:

    tags: automatic-suggestions collaborative-writing document-collaboration ifttt-integration online-collaboration
  • Microsoft Office Word

  • Microsoft Word, part of the Microsoft Office Suite but also sold as a standalone application, is Microsoft's word processor. Its proprietary (but open-specification) DOC format is considered a de-facto standard, although from 2007 and above, Word uses DOCX.

    tags: cross-references microsoft-office-suite real-time-collaboration reference-management ribbon-interface
  • Write!

  • Write! is a distraction-free text editor that boosts your productivity. It supports markdown syntax, spell-checker, cloud integration and much more!

    tags: cloud-sync distraction-free-writing markdown markdown-editor markdown-support
  • AbiWord

  • AbiWord is a free software word processor. The name "AbiWord" (pronounced "Abby Word") is derived from the root of the Spanish word "abierto", meaning "open". It runs on Linux, Mac OS X (PowerPC), Microsoft Windows, ReactOS, BeOS (unsupported), AmigaOS 4.0 (through its Cygnix X11 engine), and other operating systems. Multilingual Portable version (15MB installed) from http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable .

    tags: Portable multi-language word-processing xfce
  • FocusWriter

  • FocusWriter is a fullscreen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as possible in your work. The program autosaves your progress, and reloads the last files you had open to make it easy to jump back in during your next writing session, and has many other features that make it such that only one thing matters: your writing.

    tags: Portable auto-hide-toolbar auto-saving customizable distraction-free-writing
  • Apache OpenOffice Writer

  • Writer, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is an open-source word processor. It supports the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft Office 97-2003 formats, Microsoft Office 2007 format (ability to "open" documents in version 3), among others.

    tags: writing-editor word-processing openoffice-suite
  • Scrivener

  • Scrivener is a word processor and project management tool created specifically for writers of long texts such as novels and research papers. It won't try to tell you how to write - it just makes all the tools you have scattered around your desk available in one application.

    tags: audio-transcription distraction-free-writing drafting essay-writing export-to-word
  • Notepad2-mod

  • Changes compared to the official Notepad2

    tags: Portable code-editor notepad notepad-replacement notepad2
  • WPS Writer

  • WPS Writer, part of WPS Office , is dependable and fast word processing software that is highly compatible with Microsoft Office Word , and can read and edit DOC and DOCX formats. This allows you to freely transfer your office documents between Microsoft Word and WPS Writer.

    tags: built-in-pdf-converter office-like office-suite tabbed-interface word-processing
  • Q10

  • Q10 is a simple but powerful text editor designed and built with writers in mind.

    tags: Discontinued Portable distraction-free-writing full-screen-text-editor fullscreen-support