Best free word processing program for Win 10?

[belvdr]

Never had to do this myself, but there's a reason to get an office suite if you plan on making up a proposal for funds by someone that will be using MS office to display it. I don't know how well it works now, but in the past, occasionally.... a power-point presentation would end up all black.

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Joel

That's the entire reason PDF exists.

 

[krokus]

+1 in Libre Office, it is the from the team that started Open Office, before OO went more commercial.

 

[MUTNAV]

That's the entire reason PDF exists.

I'm basing that on the "software comments in this diatribe.

Linux and Windows: Why You Need Both

www.randombio.com

Software​

Now, some Linux users say Linux can do anything Windows and Macs can do, if you take the time to find the right programs and learn how to use them. This guy goes so far as to call the complaints that so many people have about Linux ‘lies’. But they aren't.

Take MS Office. I have a grudging admiration for PowerPoint, I dislike MS Word and I loathe Outlook. Even more than that, I detest, execrate, abhor, odium, feel aversion to, misogyny, misopedia Windows networking. (Yes, now Windows broke my thesaurus too.) Yet I use Word and PowerPoint all the time, for one single reason: my documents have to look identical on my screen and on the screen of the government bureaucrat who reads them. If an image disappears when Word renders it (which happened to me just this afternoon) we could lose a grant, or even worse the FDA could halt our clinical trial. Like most people, this is real work we're doing here, and ‘close’ is not close enough.

I don't even try to submit manuscripts in LaTeX any more. I am tired of editors whining that they can't handle it. LaTeX is miles above Word. It could have easily defeated Word. But the attitude among Linuxers was: it is already perfect. It wasn't, and now I can't use it at all. “LaTeX gives us fits!” was how one publisher put it.


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Joel

 

[a417]

I'm basing that on the "software comments in this diatribe.

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Joel

Talk about an agenda there, by that author...

 

[MUTNAV]

Talk about an agenda there, by that author...

I'm not seeing the agenda.

If you take a look at the website, the author doesn't seem to have an agenda, and he does try to be funny about it while pushing some science ideas. Although there are rapid gear shifts between funny and serious without the use of a clutch. It does takes awhile to get used to.

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Joel

 

[Stupidfatkid]

If you don't need a local install of the software, the web based version of the Microsoft Office is free to use.

Free Microsoft 365 Online | Word, Excel, PowerPoint

With Microsoft 365 for the web you can edit and share Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote files on your devices using a web browser.

www.microsoft.com

 

[JustinWHT]

OpenOffice contributions have languasted while LibreOffice is very active.

For a Windows NotePad text editor consider Crimson Editor.

Homepage of Crimson Editor - Free Text Editor, Html Editor, Programmers Editor for Windows

Crimson Editor is a professional source editor for Windows

www.crimsoneditor.com

Unlike all other text editors and word processors, it has a column mode, so when you drag cursor down it doesn't line wrap.

 

[Boombox]

and the best is here WPS office WPS Office®Free All-In-One Office Software

WPS is a good word processor. I use it as a backup to Word.

 

[dlwtrunked]

I prefer LibreOffice, but I use it so infrequently, that I don't recall why. 🙂

Uh, Libre Office is the successor to Open Office which had no updates after 2014. Seems like many do not know this.

LibreOffice vs OpenOffice | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Comparison of LibreOffice and OpenOffice. LibreOffice is the evolution of OpenOffice, with extra features, better Microsoft compatibility, and regular releases.

www.libreoffice.org

 

[KK4JUG]

Six months or so ago, I switched from Open Office to Libre. I wasn't unhappy with Open Office but various online comments prompted me to check out Libre. It was a good move. Libre has more features and seems to run smoother. I don't regret the move.

 

[JustinWHT]

Now, some Linux users say Linux can do anything Windows and Macs can do

 

[Blackswan73]

I use and prefer the forerunner to Open Office, Star Office. Although it is no longer available or supported, it still works well. Does everything I need it to

B.S.

 

[bill4long]

Libre Office very good.

 

[hunterca]

Open Office is Libre renamed and up to date.

 

[JustinWHT]

Open Office is Libre renamed and up to date.

Referring to the Wiki for both, you'll find OO has lagged in contributors and is not up to date.

LO is a forked version of OO. While features and presentation are similar, is not a "renamed" version of OO

 

[KK4JUG]

Open Office is Libre renamed and up to date.

...but improved.

 

[JustinWHT]

...but improved.

If you're saying OO has improved, that's not so; if you're saying LO is an improvement over OO, then you're correct.

Comparing Wiki OpenOffice to Wiki LibreOffice I can't see any suggestions OO has improved in the past decade.

Wiki OpenOffice:
Difficulties maintaining a sufficient number of contributors to keep the project viable have persisted for several years. In January 2015, the project reported a lack of active developers and code contributions. There have been continual problems providing timely fixes to security vulnerabilities since 2015.

Wiki LibreOffice:
It is the most actively developed free and open-source office suite, with approximately 50 times the development activity of Apache OpenOffice.

 

[KK4JUG]

I was saying that Libre Office is an improvement over Open Office.

In reality, Libre developers say it's based on Open Office so I s'pose you could also say it's an improved Open Office. And, I s'pose I can say, "Who the hell cares?"