MS Word is deservedly the most popular text editor in the world. This program finds its application in many areas and will be equally good for home, professional and educational use. Word is just one of the programs included in the Microsoft Office package, which, as you know, is distributed by subscription with an annual or monthly payment.
Actually, it is the cost of a Word subscription that forces many users to look for analogues of this text editor. And today there are many of them, and some of them are not inferior in their capabilities to the full-featured editor from Microsoft. Below we will look at the most worthy Word alternatives.
Note: The order in which programs are described in the text should not be regarded as a rating from worst to best, nor from best to worst; it is simply a list of worthy products with a consideration of their main characteristics.
This is a cross-platform office suite, one of the most popular in the free segment. The product includes approximately the same programs as in the package Microsoft Office, even a little more. This is a text editor, a spreadsheet processor, a tool for creating presentations, a database management system, a graphics editor, and a mathematical formula editor.
OpenOffice functionality is more than enough for comfortable work. As for the word processor itself, called Writer, it allows you to create and edit documents, change their design and formatting. As in Word, insertion is supported here graphic files and other objects, creating tables, graphs and much more is available. All this, as expected, is packaged in a simple, clear, conveniently implemented interface. It is also important to note the fact that the program is compatible with Word documents.
Another free and cross-platform office editor with ample opportunities for work. Like OpenOffice Writer, this office suite is well compatible with Microsoft Word formats, according to some users, even to a slightly greater extent. If you believe them, it works this program also noticeably faster. Analogs of all components included in the Microsoft Office package are also of interest here, but we are only interested in one of them.
LibreOffice Writer is a word processor that, as befits such a program, supports all the functions and capabilities necessary for comfortable work with text. Here you can configure text styles and format it. It is possible to add images to a document, and you can create and insert tables and columns. There is automatic spell checking and much more.
Here is another office suite, which, like the above analogues, is a free and quite worthy alternative to Microsoft Office. By the way, the program interface is in many ways similar to that of Microsoft's brainchild, however, if you do not take into account the latest versions of the program. If appearance If something doesn’t suit you, you can always change it to suit you.
The Office Writer word processor supports Word document formats, provides the ability to export documents to PDF and can download file templates from the Internet. As expected, the capabilities of this editor are not limited to just writing and formatting text. Writer supports the insertion of pictures, the creation of tables, mathematical formulas and much more is available, without which today it is impossible to imagine comfortable work with text documents.
And again an office suite, and again a quite worthy analogue to the brainchild of Microsoft. The product includes an application for creating presentations and a word processor, which we will look at. It is noteworthy that the program for working with text is well adapted to touch screens, has a rather attractive graphical interface and a number of other advantages.
In Galligra Gemini, as in all of the above programs, you can insert images and mathematical formulas. There are tools for page layout, standard ones for Word are supported DOC formats And DOCX. The office suite works quite quickly and stably, without loading the system. True, on Windows there are sometimes slight stutters.
An office suite from the world-famous search giant, which, unlike all of the above programs, does not have a desktop version. Google Docs are designed exclusively for working online, in a browser window. This approach is both an advantage and a disadvantage. In addition to a word processor, the package includes tools for creating spreadsheets and presentations. All you need to get started is a Google account.
All software services from the package Google Docs are part of the cloud Google storage Drive, in the environment of which the work takes place. Created documents are saved in real time, constantly synchronized. All of them are in the cloud, and projects can be accessed from any device - through an application or a web browser.
This product is aimed at collaborating with documents, for which it has all the necessary capabilities. Users can share files, leave comments and notes, and edit. If we talk directly about the tools for working with text, there is more than enough for most users.
So we looked at the five most relevant and functionally equal analogues of Microsoft Word. Which one to choose is up to you. Let us remind you that all the products discussed in this article are free.
Task
One of the most common jobs on a computer is presenting information in text form. Computer using the appropriate software provides the ability to type various texts, save them on various media, view, edit, etc. etc. Our task: to remember the techniques you already know about working with the programs used for these purposes, and to master new ones. The first lesson will focus mainly on entering and saving text.Character encoding.
Computers can only process numerical information, which means that each character of the text that we see on the screen or on a printout must be associated with some number - a code. The most common is a single-byte character encoding, that is, an 8-bit binary number is used for encoding. For example: "1" = 01010001 = 49; "A" = 01000001 = 65; "I" = 11101111 = 239. In total, 2 8 = 256 characters can be encoded in this way. In the original ASCII table, these are the Latin alphabet, punctuation marks, numbers and mathematical symbols, diphthongs, Greek letters, pseudographics symbols. When adapting computer equipment and programs in our country, the problem of placing the Cyrillic alphabet arose. It was solved in different ways at different times, and there are several encoding tables. The most widely used alternative encoding is GOST, where Cyrillic characters are arranged alphabetically, in place of diphthongs and Greek letters. The development of WINDOWS made it possible to abandon pseudo-graphics characters (WINDOWS supports real graphics), and increase the number of special characters. But the position of the Cyrillic alphabet had to be changed again. ANSII encoding.
Currently, the double-byte UNICODE character encoding is becoming increasingly common, giving 2 16 = 65536 characters, but this doubles the size of the files. Unicode includes all the major character sets common to computer and business environment. When saving a document in Unicode, you can use control characters to help you select the writing direction and layout of text for languages such as Arabic or Hebrew. Types of editors
Text editors- These are programs that allow you to type, store, prepare for printing and print texts. A great variety of these programs have been created, and all of them can be divided into three groups. Text editors of the first group, the simplest editors, reflect everything on the screen, and in the order that is contained in the file, and it can only contain 256 characters, which usually include Latin and Russian letters (lowercase and uppercase), pseudographics, and some additional characters. All this in one simple font, in one line, without any possibility of highlighting headings, writing a mathematical or chemical formula, using special symbols and letters of other alphabets, using fonts of different sizes, inserting an illustration. Of course, such features quickly ceased to satisfy users. Some of the characters were defined as control characters; they were not printed, but they told the printer when to skip a page, when to switch to another font, when to print a character of a different alphabet. However, these unprintable characters clogged the text visible on the screen. That's why text messages arose editors of the second group, which showed on the screen only what would be printed, but also entered the entire Additional information. Often such a file could only be understood in this editor. It became possible to format the text, but illustrating it with drawings and graphs was impossible. And finally, editors of the third group allow you to include not only textual information in the documents you create, but also drawings, photographs, graphs and other objects. Editors of the third group are also commonly called “word processors.” An example of such an editor would be a word processor. WinWORD.The development of editors went not only along the path of increasing the information in the file, but also by improving the interface, the ability to search and replace, work with multiple windows, text formatting, spell checking, etc. appeared. Each subsequent group of editors not only places higher demands on the computer, but also creates larger files. The simplest editors have not lost their importance to this day. First of all, to create texts intended not so much for printing, but for creating various programs and configuration files. Such files should not contain any additional characters that are not visible on the screen. Therefore, programming system editors such as Turbopascal, QuickBasic, etc. simple editors. However, they have a number of special functions related to the launch and operation of programs. The first group of editors includes, for example, the built-in FAR editor, the NotePad editor for WINDOWS, and others.The simplest Notepad editor is Notepad.
Notepad is a simple text editor used to create text (TXT) files or web pages that require no formatting and are no larger than 64 KB in size. Notepad only works with files in ASCII/ANSI/UNICODE (plain text) format. If the file requires text formatting or is larger than 64 KB, you should use the WordPad text editor.To launch Notepad, you can use the main menu: Start, Programs, Accessories. You can learn more about the notepad using the Help menu command.
Typically, a file opened in Notepad is opened in ANSI encoding. If, when opening a text file, a set of unreadable characters is displayed, then the file was created in a different ASCII encoding. To read ASCII files, you can use another font - Terminal. To change the font use the menu command Format-Font.
To insert time and date into a document, select the Date/Time command from the Edit menu. If in the first line of the Notepad document, starting from the first position, enter (capital letters and a period are required):
.LOG
then each time you open this document, Notepad will add the current date and time values according to the computer clock to the end of the file.
By default, Notepad documents are saved as standard ANSI text.
I Practical work. Open Notepad, type in the first line of the .LOG file
- enter the time and date, write down the topic of the lesson, save it under the name Proba.txt on your desktop.
- open the file again, make sure that the current date and time values are inserted at the end of the file.
- save the file under the same name on a floppy disk.
WinWord word processor.
This multifunctional program processing text information. It includes much of what was developed for previous generations of editors: multi-windows, macros, the ability to work with blocks, search and replace. All this is combined with convenient graphical interface and the WINDOWS help system. The WINWORD editor allows you to use a large number of fonts, the size of which can be changed arbitrarily. For each font, you can set the characters to be normal, bold, underlined or italic, and a combination of several features is possible. To write formulas, you can use the introduction of characters in the mode of sub- and superscripts, the insertion of special characters. WINWORD has great capabilities for formatting paragraphs and pages: you can set any line spacing, line alignment, red line, test columns, paper format, margins, page numbering and much more. All formatting options for one paragraph can be saved as a “style” and applied to other paragraphs automatically. A set of document styles can be saved in a “template” file and used for the same type of design of other documents. Moreover, WINWORD provides the user with about a dozen ready-made templates, which can be used to create documents or to develop your own templates. WINWORD provides the user with a variety of automated tools for creating and processing tables, allowing you to quickly, using templates, create a table, fill it out and even use it for calculations (sums, averages and much more) . Numerical data from tables can be presented in the form of diagrams of various shapes. The latest versions (allow you to import and insert into WINWORD documents texts and illustrations created by other programs. Therefore, although WINWORD does not have the ability to build complex, multi-story mathematical formulas, or complex structural chemical formulas, these objects can be created by other programs and “built-in” into a WINWORD document. Many formatting and editing procedures are carried out automatically - AutoFormat, AutoText, etc. The ability to automatic correction spelling errors. In the latest version of WINWORD, an incorrectly typed word is immediately corrected or underlined. Of course, all this is not for nothing: the computer requirement is higher (processor 80486 or more, 4-8 MB random access memory, 80-100 MB on disk, good monitor). A WINWORD document is several times larger than the corresponding text in ASCII codes.Launch WINWORD. Basic window elements
The WINWORD program can be launched through the main menu (usually in the Microsoft Office section of the Programs menu), using a shortcut on the desktop or on the panel quick launch. The program can also be launched by opening a WORD document. The main elements of the WINWORD window:- Header, control buttons Menu bar Toolbar.
- Workspace
- Ruler, sliders can be moved with the mouse, setting fields
- scroll bars (bottom and right)
- Status line - hint line
I Practical work. Launch WORD, understand the purpose of menu sections, the most important buttons on toolbars, and the task area.
WORD help system
If you need help while you work, you can use one of the following resources: Field Enter a question serves for quick access to the help system field To quickly find the answers you need, enter a question in this field. For example, to get saving information, enter: "how to save." Answers are displayed in order of relevance, meaning the most appropriate answer to the question is displayed first.Task pane WINWORD Help, provides other features help system. It can be displayed using the Help menu, WINWORD Help. To select a specific topic, click the Table of Contents link. Additionally, if you are connected to the Internet, the WINWORD Help task pane displays updates to Help topics and templates that most closely match the question you entered, as well as links to training courses, and other resources on the Microsoft Office Online website. Office Assistant- graphic object for quick access to help. To use it, from the Help menu, select the command: Show Assistant. When you click Office Assistant, a field appears where you can enter a question.I Practical work. Try out the help system and Office Assistant.
Setting up WINWORD
The following methods for setting up WORD are usually used:Document display:
- View: Menu View-Normal, View-Page Layout
- Scale: Menu View-Scale
- Turn on/off: Menu View-Toolbar
- Moving: dragging with the mouse;
- Adding buttons: Tools-Settings menu, Commands tab
- Open the Teams tab.
- In the Categories field, select a category for the command you want the button to perform.
- Drag the desired command button from the Commands field to the displayed toolbar
- Tab Are common
- Confirm Conversion (Ability to select a file converter when opening a file created in another application.)
- Remember list from... (Displays the names of the most recently used documents in the File menu. To change the number of documents displayed in the menu, enter a number between 1 and 9 in the files field.)
- Tab Preservation
- Allow quick save. Accelerate document saving by recording only changes made. When you are finished working with the document, clear this check box and save the entire document. Using full save reduces the document file size.
- Autosave every. Automatically creates a copy of a document for recovery at the frequency specified in the minutes field. In this field, enter a number between 1 and 120. If your computer crashes or the power goes out, the AutoSave file will be opened the next time you open Microsoft Word. The autosave file may contain unsaved data that would have been lost due to a crash. Remember that AutoSave is not a replacement for the Save command.
- Tab " Safety»
- Passwords (If you forget or lose your password, you will not be able to open the document.)
- Tab " Spelling»
- Automatically check spelling. Automatically checks spelling as you enter text and marks errors.
I Practical work. Set the document display, view (Page Layout) and scale (100%). Try working with toolbars, add sub- and superscript buttons to them. Check and, if necessary, set WORD operating parameters.
Typing
Before typing text, you can set the font parameters using the Format-Font Menu or the Formatting Panel. This usually sets:- Font type (drop-down list)
- size (- " - " -)
- style ("F", "K", "H")
You can immediately determine paragraph parameters, alignment, indents and line spacing (Format-Paragraph Menu or Formatting Panel.).
When typing text, you need to be able to switch the keyboard layout, enter sub and superscripts and symbols that are not on the keyboard. To insert symbols, use the Insert-Symbol Menu
I Practical work. Set the specified font parameters and type the text (without using graphics and the formula editor):
Courier New, 16, ZH,K - Your name, faculty, group
Arial, 14, N - "1 mole of sulfuric acid (formula) contains six by ten to the twenty-third power (number) of molecules"
Times New Roman, 13.5, Ch - “alpha (symbol)- and beta (symbol)-aminopropionic acids”
- Equation for the reversible reaction of calcium carbonate decomposition (with arrows)
- Reaction equation for the interaction of aluminum sulfate with barium nitrate
- Ionic equation of this reaction
- Type the word “dog” and check the spell checker to highlight and correct errors.
Working with files
Files created in Worde can be saved both in its own format (.doc extension) and in some other formats. Compatibility with other programs and safety from virus infection is ensured by the Rich Text Format (.rtf). The smallest files will be obtained if you save only text (.txt); you can then work with these files in Notepad.Three ways to save:
- Toolbar (floppy disk)
- menu File, Save
- menu File, Save As
The first two methods are identical - they save the file under the current name, in the current directory. The latter is broader; it allows you to assign a storage location for a file, give it a new name, and save it in a different format. The file format is set in the File type field of the save window.
I Practical work. Save the file in the NIT Folder on your desktop under the name Proba1, save it under the name Full Name in different formats (RTF, text, ...). Compare file sizes
Close: three ways
- Ctr-F4
- menu File, Close
- double click by the "X" button
When closing, you may be prompted to save the file (if last changes were not recorded)
I Practical work. Close work file
Open: three ways
- icon (->)
- menu File, Open
- File menu, File list
When opening files of other formats (for example, files in ASCII codes, *.txt), a conversion request is displayed. For ASCII files the answer is "MS-DOS Text"
| => Features of Office 2007.
- Instead of the File menu, a button is used Office. - When you open a document in Microsoft Office Word 2007 that was created in Microsoft Office Word 2003, Word 2002, or Word 2000, compatibility mode is automatically turned on and the title bar of the document window displays " Reduced functionality mode"Enabling compatibility mode ensures that your document does not take advantage of new and enhanced features in Office Word 2007 and users of earlier Microsoft versions Word will be able to edit any part of this document. - Instead of running in Compatibility Mode, you can convert your document to the Office Word 2007 file format. This will allow you to take advantage of the new features in Office Word 2007, but may make the document difficult for users of earlier versions of Microsoft Word to use. |
I Practical work. Open the file Proba1 again (3rd method) open the file Full Name.doc (1st or 2nd method) Open the file Full Name.txt. Compare file contents. When working in Office 2007, convert the document to WORD-2007 format.
Create a new document: three ways
- pictogram (blank sheet)
- menu File, New
The second method displays a dialog box that allows you to select a template to create a document. Some templates are marked with the word “wizard,” which means that in the subsequent dialog you can clarify the parameters of the document being created.
I Practical work. Create a new document, in the first line enter the text: “New document – full name”
Working with windows.
Uses general windowing techniques and commands from the Window Menu.
- Go to the desired window Ctr-F6, Window Menu.
- Collapse and unfold.
- Changes in size and position.
I Practical work. present all documents on the screen simultaneously, in the “Compare side by side” mode two documents
Working with blocks of text.
Once you place a block in the buffer, you can insert as many copies as you like into various documents not only WINWORD but also other programs.
I Practical work. Copy the contents of the Full Name.doc file into a new document and write it as Proba2 in the NIT folder.
- Copy the working files from the NIT folder to a floppy disk. Make sure they are available on the floppy disk. Passing the test with the completed assignment on a floppy disk On a floppy disk: Proba.txt created in a notepad, Full Name.txt, Full Name.rtf, Full Name.doc, Proba2.doc - with the specified content.
We looked at the most popular text editors that can create, open, and edit files. Each program has a unique interface and different functionality. In your choice, focus on the options that meet your needs for working with text.
Microsoft Office 2016, LibreOffice And IBM Lotus Symphony are full-fledged office suites and have a wide range of tools for creating and editing text and tabular data. Of course The most advanced features can be found in application from Microsoft . What is the cost of integration with cloud storage and the ability remote access to large projects from any computer or gadget. On the other hand - quite high system requirements Not every PC can handle it. LibreOffice boasts support for a huge number of formats and an advanced formula editor. Lotus Symphony- to this day a worthy analogue to the two above competitors. Contains a user-friendly interface and supports expansion through plugins. And yet, their number is limited, and the official website has not updated the utility for a long time.
MS Word 2007 And 2010 - excellent and time-tested programs with a developed set of functions. They are distinguished by a high-quality text search system, a spelling and punctuation checker, a built-in translator, and so on. Version 2010 received a more modern interface, support for more formats and the ability to store documents in the cloud. If the latest facts are not of particular importance to you, you can safely use a less resource-demanding computer Word 2007. An almost equally advanced text editor contains the OpenOffice package with its Writer, which is completely free.
AkelPad And Notepad++- fast, lightweight and easy-to-use analogues of the standard Windows notepad. Both programs They are open source, allow you to assign various actions to hotkeys, support multi-level rollback of actions, and contain automation settings. Notepad includes option Reserve copy data and text encryption tool. Akelpad perfectly implements highlighting of unicode strings and other useful features.
It is worth noting that the notepad application is universal: it will be useful for beginners and experienced programmers due to the presence of an integrated development environment, and is used by ordinary users as an advanced version of notepad - a small and fast text editor. No less developed functionality is available in WPS Office Writer, in addition, the utility has a very convenient night mode for people with low vision.
Sublime Text And Adobe Brackets were created as tools for working with different languages programming. They contain good alternative editors for Windows, Macos. The applications are popular among programmers, layout designers and web page developers who are looking for a new free visual editor.
Our review did not include several programs that are also worth paying attention to: EditPad Lite, SoftMaker Office, RJ Texted, Crimson Editor, A tlantis Word Processor, Comodo Edit and TextMaker . The latter supports all versions of MS Word and opens documents in .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm, .doc, .dot, odt, .ott, .sxw, .rtf, .psw, .pwd, .htm, . html, .txt., .tmv, .tmd.
It is important for a writer not to frighten away inspiration. The muse is a capricious creature; she does not tolerate paragraph formatting and rigid wrapping around pictures. This is probably why most reviews of text editors are devoted to Zen applications, which are either unobtrusively low-functional, or have the character of a Teacher urging people to enlightenment with a bamboo stick (remember the editor who started erasing what was written?).
The text editor's capabilities are excellent. Everything you need for normal operation is there. Fonts, headings, paragraph styles, adjusting indents and spacing, autocorrect - it's all there. Inserting various pictures, tables, formulas, footnotes and comments (by the way, comments are very convenient when working together on a document).
Yes, and working together on a document is certainly convenient. Access to documents can be given in two ways: simple, via a link to the document, and access by address Email. Both methods offer to set their own access levels: editing, commenting or reading the document.
The only thing I'm missing here is the ability to hide spaces between pages. I'm used to doing this in Word, and large holes in the text annoy me. By the way, I have not found such a function in any of the editors, except Word and the latest version of Libre Office. Maybe I just didn’t delve so deeply into the settings?
One Drive, Mail.ru and Word Online editor
In addition to paid licensed versions of office programs that are installed on a computer, the guys from Microsoft have also made online versions of their products: Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Of course, the Good Corporation is hot on its heels, we must react!
In terms of functionality, Word Online is significantly inferior to its offline older brother, but all the basic editing and formatting functions are present. Visually, the editor interface is almost the same as in full version Office 2016 or Office 365. Naturally, all classic formats are supported, opened, and saved. Online documents are stored in the Microsoft cloud OneDrive. if you have Account Microsoft (and the advent of Windows 10 you can’t do without such an account), then everything will be saved in OneDrive.
IN mobile devices on Windows Mobile or Windows 10, this package is integrated by default, so you can work with your documents from tablets and smartphones.
In addition to working on the Office’s own website, you can also use online Word in Mail.ru Clouds. The developers did not bother creating their own editors (although, they say, in Lately something of our own, Russian, is already being developed), we attached Word, Excel and PowerPoint to the cloud and configured the saving of documents in our storage. Considering that more than half of the Russian-speaking people have mail.ru mail, and the size of the cloud for some (for example, me) is terabytes, the option of working here is very attractive.
Zoho and Zoho Writer
Zoho- cloud service, or a cloud office, which includes CRM, mail and other probably useful business things. Among other things, Zoho allows you to create and edit your own office documents online: texts, tables, presentations.
The software package is similar to the previous ones, in general. The text editor is not much different in functionality from its other brothers: Word Online and Google Docs. Everything you need for formatting and editing text, general access, the ability to download a text document in .docx format.
However, I don’t know anyone who would use this editor and this cloud. At least not among my friends. Meanwhile, the cloud has a free size of 150 GB, which is generally very good. To work in the cloud, registration is required, however, as elsewhere. By the way, you can log in and register using your Google account (which is what I did).
DropboxPaper
And another online service where you can write texts and collaborate with them - DropboxPaper from the most popular one today cloud storage. This is not exactly a full-fledged, sophisticated text editor with a full set of tools; rather, it can be classified as a note editor. Its functionality is very reminiscent of notes on Facebook, or the Sway application that comes with Windows 10 (who uses it anyway?).
From the very beginning, we are offered three templates: brainstorming, meeting notes and project proposal. These are not even templates, but examples of how this service can be used for work. The service itself offers unobtrusive hints while viewing templates. Everything is clear if you know a little English. By the way, everything is in English, there is no Russian localization in the beta version, perhaps everything will be Russified in the final version.
Actually, the editor. Text and other document elements (pictures, tables, lists, checkboxes, etc.) are inserted in separate blocks. A circle with a cross appears to the left of each new block, and by clicking on it we get this simple set of options. On the left it is shown who added this next block. This is very convenient when several people are working on a document. General access provided in the same way as in Google Docs: via a Dropbox account or via a link.
You can add comments to text blocks, like in GoogleDocs, it looks similar:
Text formatting elements are not visible on the main screen and become available only after you select some part of the text:
The image inserted into the text can be moved a little. Naturally, you can also add comments to it. You can insert pictures and files directly from your Dropbox storage, it’s very convenient.
Everything that is created is exported to Word format.docx, the export button is hidden here:
It turns out acceptable. In principle, you can write some texts that are not too complex in structure in this editor, but using it as the main working tool is not very convenient. It's much more useful as a collaboration tool.
Total
These are the alternatives to the Great and Terrible Word that modern reality offers us. In my opinion, a real suitable replacement for the paid Microsoft monster is Libre Office as an offline package and any of the online ones described above, since they are almost the same. I like Google's. You are free to choose whatever you want.
Write to your health, and don’t forget about the harpagrophic dictionary. And you will be happy.
At first I wanted to make a review separately for each category of editors - as an alternative to notepad, MS Office, for code editing and online, but still decided to collect everything in one article. It contains free editors as an alternative to the already familiar and standard notepad and MS word. As always, you can download them from the official website and install them for yourself and try them out. Why pay for paid products when there are such alternatives, sometimes even better than paid analogues. In total, the review turned out to be not a lot, not a little, but 29 editors.
Free alternative editors to replace MS office
1) OpenOffice.org
I think it would be reasonable to put it first on the list, because it is the most popular today.
OpenOffice.org (OOo) is a free office software package designed to replace the well-known Microsoft Office suite of programs at both the format and user interface levels. With OpenOffice.org you can easily download MS-Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), edit them and store them both in the original format and in the OpenOffice.org format.
The OpenOffice.org package can be useful to anyone who needs powerful program with high requirements for security, functionality, flexibility and compatibility, for use in business, government, education and the private sector. One of the useful features of the package is the ability to use it without installation, which allows you to run the program, for example, from a flash drive.
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OpenOffice.org includes the following programs:
OpenOffice.org Writer (a program for working with text documents and a visual HTML editor, similar to Microsoft Word).
- OpenOffice.org Calc (a spreadsheet program similar to Microsoft Excel).
- OpenOffice.org Draw (a program for creating and editing vector graphics).
- OpenOffice.org Impress (a program for preparing small presentations, similar to Microsoft PowerPoint).
- OpenOffice.org Base (database management system - DBMS).
- OpenOffice.org Math (mathematical formula editor).
- System for recording macro commands (macros).
- Startup acceleration tool (using preload).
You can download OpenOffice for free from
2) LibreOffice
The second most popular is this product. The functionality is also excellent.
LibreOffice is a free, independent, open source office suite created as a fork of the OpenOffice.org suite. LibreOffice is free for both private, educational or commercial use. Can be used without any license fees your family, friends, work colleagues, students, employees and so on.
All LibreOffice components work well together and complement each other, providing the user with everything necessary for daily work with documents, data entry, organization and analysis, marketing, presentations and training. LibreOffice is easy to use and can be used without special training by anyone who has already worked with any office programs.
LibreOffice consists of the following parts:
LibreOffice Writer is a program for working with text documents and a visual HTML editor.
- LibreOffice Calc - a program for working with spreadsheets.
- LibreOffice Draw - a program for creating and editing vector graphics.
- LibreOffice Impress - presentation preparation program.
- LibreOffice Base - a mechanism for connecting to external DBMSs and a built-in HSQLDB DBMS.
- LibreOffice Math - editor of mathematical formulas.
You can download LibreOffice for free from
3) [R]Software Editor
R]Software Editor is a powerful free text editor that supports all the basic functions of working with text. The program uses a multi-document interface (several documents can be opened simultaneously in one window).
Supported text formats - RVF, RVP, RTF, XML, HTML, TXT, EXE. Insert images in the following formats: BMP, EMF, WMF, ICO, JPG, GIF (including animated), PNG, SWF.
Main features of [R]Software Editor:
Selecting font, size, text color, background color, style, setting spacing, offset, text scale
- Paragraph alignment to the left, right, center and width. Setting paragraph spacing before and after a line, line spacing, setting tab stops. Set a custom border and fill color for a paragraph.
- Creation of bulleted and numbered lists (including multi-level ones).
- Visual work with tables: inserting and deleting rows, columns, merging, splitting cells, setting borders, frames, vertical alignment text in cells. Convert text to tables and tables to text.
- Design of text and images with hypertext links.
- Spell checking using MS Office dictionaries (versions up to 2000) or ISpell.
- Spell checking carried out in background or upon request.
- Customizable autocorrect lists as you type (can be disabled).
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts.
- Function for counting the number of words and the proportion of all words in the document.
- Possibility of transformation BMP images document in JPG format, GIF or PNG.
- Search and replace functions.
- Text encoding conversion functions (from KOI, DOS, ISO).
- Print with preview.
Due to the fact that the official site “died” in 2008 and no new releases are expected, I suggest downloading latest version 1.3.12
from this site. Before that time, they managed to adapt the product to windows versions 98 and XP. I didn’t install it on seven, you can check for yourself how it works on new versions. There is still a Russian language.
4) AbiWord
AbiWord is a fast, free text editor with rich functionality and a clear interface. It can be used as alternative to Microsoft Office for creating, editing and printing simple text and “mixed” (with tables and pictures) documents, and saving them in most popular formats.
The core of the AbiWord program is quite compact and uses little system resources, so it can be used on almost all computers, regardless of their configuration.
Main characteristics of AbiWord:
Full integration into operating system Windows.
- AbiWord supports everything standard types formats: OpenOffice.org, Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, Rich Text Format, HTML and many others...
- Wide functionality programs: text formatting, working with pictures, tables and styles, spell checking...
- Multilingual interface. Ukrainian and Russian languages are also supported.
- Using the spell checking function for Ukrainian and Russian is possible after downloading the corresponding dictionary(s).
- Support command line. AbiWord can be easily integrated with other programs, which can be useful, for example, when creating a large number of documents of the same type.
- To expand the capabilities of the text editor, add-ons (plugins) have been created, with the help of which AbiWord can be “taught” to perform one or another function you need.
You can download AbiWord for free from
Note:
To install the Russian spell check dictionary, download and unpack it into the appropriate directory (by default C:/Program Files/AbiWord/dictionary/ispell). You can also select the required languages when installing the program (in this case, the installer will download and install them on its own.
The program was apparently abandoned in 2010 and now it supports a maximum of Windows XP.
5) Lotus Symphony
IBM Lotus Symphony is a free set of office applications for creating, editing and sharing texts, spreadsheets, presentations and other closed-source documents. It uses OpenOffice.org technologies and the Eclipse platform, a free integrated development environment for modular cross-platform applications, and supports ODF (OpenDocument) standards. Lotus Symphony includes programs such as Symphony Documents, Symphony Presentations, and Symphony Spreadsheet. Symphony can work with different document formats, including those used in MS Office. By default, documents are saved in ODF format. Documents can also be saved from the program in PDF format.
Lotus Symphony features:
- support for VBA scripts
- support for ODF 1.2 standard
- OLE support for Office 2007
- ability to insert OLE, audio and video files
- new gallery clip-art
- ability to create new business cards and labels, new template files
- support for VML images in OOXML files
- support for multiple options to protect spreadsheet and sheet files in the VBA API
- support for addons for downloading a spell check dictionary in 22 languages for Windows, OS users
- better graphical rendering of the object due to improved anti-aliasing
Document editor
- support for native nested tables.
- support for multi-page layout.
- support for autotext function
Spreadsheet editor
New opportunities:
- equation solver
- sheet zoom
Presentation editor
- display images on multiple monitors
- more animation, graphic and text objects, text effects.
- more page layouts.
Charts
- new engine for plotting.
- added diagram types: cylinders, cones, pyramids...
You can download Lotus Symphony for free from
6) SoftMaker FreeOffice
SoftMaker FreeOffice is relatively new and good editor, which can open and edit not only text files, but also presentation and table formats (.doc/docx, xls/xlsx, ppt/pptx).
This package includes the text editor TextMaker, the spreadsheet editor PlanMaker and the presentation program SotMaker Presentations. Also supplied is the Smash utility, which can launch all programs from the system tray.
The interface language is Russian.
Download free editor With . Registration is required to download.
Free alternative editors to replace Notepad
1) AkelPad
Of course, one of the notepad's main competitors.
AkelPad is a small free text editor that can work in both multi-window and regular (one document - one window) mode. It is a very powerful and fast text editor, it has the most necessary functionality that can be expanded with plugins. In addition, it correctly displays pseudo-graphics, and also allows you to customize the font and background.
Using AkelPad, you can even edit files that have a Read-Only attribute, as well as preview files before opening them. Other features of AkelPad include a multi-level system for undoing edits, a list of recently opened files in the program, remembering the code page for a file, the position of the insertion mark, and last line search/replace.
Main features of AkelPad:
Single window mode (SDI), multi window mode (MDI).
- Full support for Unicode strings on Unicode systems (NT/2000/XP/2003).
- Work with Unicode encodings (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8).
- Works with any code page installed in the system.
- Work with DOS/Windows and Unix line feed formats (including saving).
- Preview of opening files.
- Correct display of pseudographics.
- Editing files with the “Read Only” attribute.
- Warning when trying to open a binary file.
- Multi-level rollback of actions.
- Search/replace text strings, escape sequences.
- Remembering the file encoding.
- Remembering the position of the carriage in the file.
- List of recently opened files.
- Plugin support (syntax highlighting, auto-completion, script launch, keyboard macros).
- Support for language modules.
You can download AkelPad for free from
2) EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is a compact, user-friendly editor that has all the necessary characteristics for a text editor and additional functions. Allows you to open several files at the same time, without limiting the size and line length. Between open files You can switch using bookmarks, so there is no inconvenience from working with numerous windows.
Key features of EditPad Lite:
Can be installed on USB disk or other portable device.
- Search and Replace function works in all open files.
- Unlimited number of undo and redo actions. Cancel changes even after saving.
- Editing and converting ASCII, ANSI and Unicode files.
- Creation available text files not only in European, but also in eastern languages.
- Editing structured text files, saving part of the text on disk and inserting the file into the current content.
- Preview function, setting print font, margins, footers, etc.
- Option “on top of windows”.
- Warning when closing an unsaved file.
- Supports ISO-8859 code pages, as well as most DOS, KOI8 and EBCDIC.
- Select settings - move words to new line, line numbering and auto-indentation separately for each file type.
- Define your own file types.
The only drawback is that there is no Russian language.
You can download EditPad Lite for free from
3) EmEditor
EmEditor main features:
Working with large files (up to 500 GB)
- Ability to underline and highlight commands of various programming languages
- Creation of javascript or VBScript macros
- Pseudo-multi-window interface will make it easier to work with several files at the same time
- Support for drag"n"drop, Unicode and all popular text formats is fully implemented.
- In principle, even Word document will open, albeit with loss of formatting
- Automatically convert entered URLs and e-mail addresses into hyperlinks.
The general impression is spoiled only by the shareware status of the program, which provides only 30 days of free use of EmEditor...
You can download EmEditor for free from
4) ListEdit
I didn’t know where to take it, because... it may be suitable for developers as well. Please keep this in mind.
Maybe, best description EmEditor - “Notepad modified to the smallest detail.” After all, you see, a simple but compact text editor is needed quite often - for example, for personal notes or more serious things like programming and Web design. Another thing is that the standard Notepad, due to the limitation on the size of the edited file (no more than 64 KB) and poor functionality, is not suitable for this role in any way.
All necessary functions for working with text are provided:
- vertical bookmark panels and text line numbering;
- use of bookmarks in the text with the ability to save them after closing the document;
- opening large files;
- unlimited cancellation and return of changes in the text;
- automatic indentation when entering new lines of text;
- advanced search and replace capabilities in text, using the search-replace panel instead of the search-replace dialog box;
- use a list of substitutions to quickly insert frequently used text;
- built-in file file manager with features:
- opening files in the current folder, opening history and Favorites;
- filtering and sorting the list of files to open;
- Slideshow mode of opened files;
- support for Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-7 encodings and all encodings available in your Windows (WIN, DOS, MAC, KOI8, ISO and others);
- customizable auto-detection of encodings;
- support and auto-detection RTF files;
- recoding of both the entire text and selected fragments;
- checking spelling and grammar using Microsoft Word dictionaries;
- spell checking both in the entire text and in selected fragments;
- viewing and editing web pages ( HTML files);
- viewing web images (GIF, JPG, PNG files);
- setting the font, color and background separately for editing mode and viewing mode;
- use of numerous configurations (additional ini files) of the program depending on the extensions of the files being opened;
- expanded possibilities for using multisubstitutions in text (customizable list of multisubstitutions, support for macro substitutions, implementation of symbol transliteration, etc.);
- operations of sorting selected lines of text and other operations on lines (paragraphs);
- management of open program windows, including:
- opening the current file in a new program window;
- opening the file in a new program window (in any way + pressing the key);
- closing or collapsing all open windows programs;
- support for Windows XP visual style;
- use as an external plugin for Total Commander to view files by key or edit files by key ;
- Drag & drop ability to edit text and open files;
- display of hyperlinks in the text;
- Microsoft IntelliMouse support;
- the ability to display a standard Shell Context Menu for a file opened in the program (just like in Explorer);
- remembering the history of search strings and replacement of occurrences in the text;
- quick file printing from the command line (key "/p");
- insert mode HTML text(Format HTML) from the clipboard;
- auto-insert text mode from the clipboard;
- support for end-to-end navigation tools (back and forth) for opening in current session work with files (including hyperlinks), regardless of which built-in program window - editor or browser you are currently in. Editor-viewer of text and WEB files (web pages and web images). The program can be used as a plugin for viewing or editing files in Total(Windows) Commander.
5) PolyEdit
A wonderful competitor to AbiWord from developers from the ex-USSR. Like its ideological inspirer (that is, WinWord), PolyEdit is primarily focused on high-quality design and formatting of text. Integration with the system is also not forgotten: tables, drawings, clipart, objects from various Windows applications - all this is inserted into the PolyEdit document in the blink of an eye. There is also an automatic spell check for Russian and English languages, and even a special “smart” module for monitoring the contents of the clipboard, auto text format (in RTF or ASCII) and much, much more.
Oddly enough for a mid-level editor, PolyEdit can also work with binary files and launches them for execution immediately after editing. An intuitive and user-friendly Word-style interface completes the picture. The toolbar contains all the most relevant functions - starting with the spacing between lines in a paragraph and ending with quick drawing of tables. Well, the built-in email client will allow you to immediately send your work to the recipient.
By and large, all that is missing is a drawing panel for creating simple shapes and flowcharts, as well as a module for correcting text typed in the “wrong” layout
Key features of PolyEdit:
Allows you to encrypt and compress your documents for secure and fast transmission over the Internet
- carry out pre-print preview and break the text into columns
- insert OLE objects, pictures, tables and special characters
- check spelling
- create your own document archives with a hierarchical structure
- edit program texts with syntax highlighting
- to Work with various formats and encodings: RTF, ETF, MS Word 6.0/95/97/2000/XP/2003/2007, MS Excel, MS Write, WordPerfect, OEM (DOS), ANSI (Windows), Unicode, UTF-8, Mac, Unix .
In addition, the program's capabilities can be significantly expanded using additional modules (plug-ins)
OS - maximum Windows XP
For Russian users, the program is registered for free - you need to enter the word Gift in the key field for version v.5.4 - for version 6 (portable) this key is not suitable.
You can download PolyEdit for free from
The Russian language is in the same place, but lower. If you don't want to look -
6) Metapad
A small and fast text editor that can serve as a replacement for the standard Notepad. Supports two types of fonts with hot switching, link highlighting, bookmarks, two customizable external viewers, ten hot text fragments for insertion.
Overall, Metapad includes all the features of Notepad. For this reason, it is at least no worse than the standard one Windows tool. However, you will have to separately download the Russification of the interface, and also work a little while mastering the new application.
7) MioPad
The simple text editor MioPad is focused primarily on working with plain text. The program is a single executable module and does not require installation on the system. Nothing is written in.
The MioPad toolbar cannot be customized in any way. You can only work with one document. When you try to open a second file, you are prompted to save the first one. It will be unloaded from memory. However, the text editor remembers the names of previously opened files and adds them to its history. It also stores the position of the cursor at the time the document was closed.
The program automatically recognizes all encodings using the Cyrillic alphabet. It is possible to save UTF-8 documents. Additionally, you can open DOC document, RTF or HTML and convert it to plain text. There is also the possibility of transliterating texts, which allows you to use the document on computers where the Cyrillic alphabet is not installed. For example, you can convert text to Latin, send a letter to a friend living far abroad, and then return the document to its original form. Dispatch emails possible from a text editor. The message creation window is called up mail client installed on the system by default. The text of the letter is the current document.
If there is a keyboard layout error, you can select a piece of text and perform the conversion. There is no point in typing the text again. It is possible to check spelling. This requires MS Word installed on the system. The check starts from the current cursor position to the end of the document.
To make it easier to navigate through documents, it is convenient to use bookmarks. Their number is not limited. In other programs, it is worth recalling that, most often, you can create no more than ten of them. MioPad doesn't just set a bookmark, remembering the cursor position. The entire line is also copied. By opening the bookmarks window, you can see not only all marked positions, but also quickly navigate through them. The entire list of bookmarks can be saved to a file and then used again. The Bookmarks window has two permanent buttons for quickly moving to the position where you started reading the document when opening a file, as well as to the point where you were before you started navigating through bookmarks. In addition, MioPad supports the creation of tables of contents of texts.
The program supports text compaction by removing unnecessary line breaks, spaces, and tab characters. String sorting is also possible. It is usually used to process lists. Sorting is carried out either over the entire document, or only over its selected part.
MioPad has the ability to connect dictionaries to explain the meanings of specific words and to translate them from unfamiliar languages. By default, the word under the cursor is processed. A dictionary is an external text file, each line of which is a combination of the spelling of a word and its meaning, interpretation, or translation.
The use of synonyms is allowed, that is, one word can be assigned several descriptions.
The text editor contains a powerful scientific calculator. It receives either the selected text fragment or part of the current line up to the cursor. This depends on whether there is an equal sign in this string.
The MioPad Help system consists of two text files. One of them states general issues related to the operation of the application, and the other document is detailed description built-in calculator.
You can download MioPad for free from
8) Notepad X
The compact text editor Notepad X is positioned as a replacement for Notepad. We can agree with this, because the program, on the one hand, does not boast an abundance of possibilities, but on the other hand, it has an attractive appearance and a pleasant interface. In other words, the text editor is aimed at the common user, in the good sense of the word.
The program installs without asking any questions, but refuses to run on an unprepared Windows system. What should her preparation consist of? On official page project you can read that the application requires .Net Framework 2.0 installed on the system. After meeting such requirements, everything falls into place, the text editor starts up and starts working.
Notepad X allows you to work with several documents at the same time, switching between them using tabs. Toolbars have a popular design used in many Windows applications. Many main menu items have icons next to them. This is rare for text editors; they usually do without such generous beauties. This is probably done for the sake of saving resource consumption, for the sake of reducing the size of the distribution kit, because positioning as a replacement for Notepad forces you to try not to swell too much compared to the standard application of the system, a real baby, a crumb.
In addition to working with plain text, Notepad X has the ability to work with RTF. These tools are primitive, and it cannot be said that a text editor can even replace WordPad. However, for creating fairly simple documents with font style, lists and images, Notepad X is quite suitable.
Another feature is that it works with the BBCode format. It is used on forums and is also intended for complex text formatting. Notepad X features the ability to quickly insert multiple BBCode tags.
The text editor can change letter cases, number lines, and rename documents. The list of most frequently used files is created using favorites. In order to add a new document to it, you must first save it to HDD. Working window applications can smoothly change transparency. After installing and launching the application, a new icon appears in the Windows system tray, which allows the text editor to perform basic operations with files without having to open the application's working window.
Notepad X is convenient for preparing simple texts and documents that use not very complex styling. Additionally, the text editor can be used to create forum posts that use BBCode formatting.
You can download Notepad X for free from
Free editors for developers
1) Notepad++
Notepad++ is a free text file editor with syntax support for a large number of programming languages. The program has a wide range of options and is characterized by minimal consumption of processor resources.
Among the advanced options of Notepad++ are the option to highlight text and the ability to collapse blocks according to the syntax of the programming language. The user can independently determine the syntax of the programming language. It is possible to customize the backlight mode. Directives and programming language operators can be highlighted in color.
Notepad++ provides the ability to simultaneously view and edit multiple documents. You can also view and edit the same document in two display windows in different places. Changes to a document in one viewport will be automatically moved to the second viewport (i.e. you are editing one document that has a clone in the second viewport).
Other Notepad++ features:
Auto-completion of the typed word.
- Ability to create your own list API functions(or download it from the download page).
- Support regular expressions Search/Replace.
- Full support for dragging text fragments.
- Dynamically changing viewing windows.
- Automatic detection file status (notification that a file has been changed or deleted by another program - with the ability to reload the file or delete it from the program).
- Zooming in and out (zooming).
- Supports a large number of languages.
- The program listing can be printed in color - just as you see on the screen in the editing window.
- Notes about the document.
- Highlighting brackets when editing text.
- Recording a macro and executing it.
You can download Notepad++ for free from
2) PSPad
PSPad is a compact tool with simple controls and powerful code editor capabilities, necessary for working simultaneously with different programming languages (including PHP, Perl, HTML and Java) and working with text data.
PSPad has a powerful graphical user interface that allows you to work with projects, work on multiple documents simultaneously in tabbed mode (MDI), search and replace in files, compare texts with multi-colored highlighting of differences. Other useful features include saving screen sessions, and the ability to edit files directly from the web server.
Key features of PSPad:
Macro support: recording, saving and loading.
- Templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates).
- Templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-DOS, Perl.
- User-defined highlighting styles for exotic syntaxes.
- Auto-correction.
- Smart built-in HTML preview using IE and Mozilla.
- Full-fledged HEX editor.
- Challenge external programs, separately for each development environment.
- An external compiler with output interception, a log window and a log parser for each environment creates the “IDE” effect.
- Color syntax highlighting for printing and preview before printing.
- Integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML.
- Built-in free version of the TopStyle Lite CSS editor.
- Export highlight code to RTF formats, HTML, TeX c. file or clipboard.
- Vertical selection, bookmarks, labels, line numbering.
- Reformatting and compression of HTML code, changing the case of words, tags and letters.
- Sorting rows with the ability to sort by a given column, with the option to remove duplicates.
- A table of ASCII characters with matching HTML mnemonics.
- Code navigator for Pascal, INI, HTML, XML, PHP.
- Spell check.
- Built-in web browser with Apache support.
- Illumination of paired brackets.
Attention: To install spell check dictionaries, download the desired language. After downloading, unpack the file into a directory Spell(usually C:/Program Files/PSPad editor/Spell). Then, go to the Settings/Spelling Options menu and select one of the installed dictionaries. You may need to create a Spell directory in your program folder if it doesn't already exist.
You can download PSPad for free from
3) Bluefish
Bluefish is a powerful free text editor aimed primarily at programmers and web developers. It has a lot of features to make writing websites, scripts and code easier. Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, has a simple and easy-to-learn interface, and can be integrated with external programs.
Like other modern text editors, Bluefish has customizable syntax highlighting, supports tabs, can automatically complete HTML tags, recognizes a large number of encodings, and has a huge number of other useful features.
Key properties of Bluefish:
Powerful search and replace tools that allow you to use regular expressions.
- Spell checking of HTML pages.
- Built-in help information for various programming languages
- Collapsible code blocks.
- Unlimited number for canceling and returning completed actions.
- Highlighting the beginning and end of tags for the corresponding blocks.
- Auto-completion and automatic closing of tags for many programming languages.
- Multilingual interface.
- Recursive opening of files.
- User-configurable toolbar for quick access to frequently used functions.
The site has a lot of links not for Windows, but I found the latest version, although x32, but it will even work on Windows 8, free download GNU Emacs
GNU Emacs (more often called simply Emacs) is a cross-platform text editor designed primarily for programmers. One of its notable features is the ability to expand functionality. For example, you can turn it into a scheduler or debugger. Another one interesting feature- line-by-line comparison of the contents of two files.
6) Crimson Editor
It is a lightweight text editor for Windows with support for many languages. Using the macro function, you can record the execution of similar actions. There is a built-in FTP client. Not a bad solution for Windows users.
9) Komodo Edit
Komodo Edit is a free cross-platform text editor created by ActiveState. Built on the popular Komodo IDE. Has very convenient manager a projector that will help you organize your work. Many developers use it as a layout editor.
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