Vicki Maye asks:
I would like to download a word processing program for free. I just want the word portion. I have tried to download Open Office and get about halfway and I get an error message. My computer is pretty slow, so I really just need the word portion. Is there a way to do it?
Thanks!
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System: Windows
Tagged: best software, free alternative, free software, word processor
System: Windows
Tagged: best software, free alternative, free software, word processor
21 Answers -
Dimal Chandrasiri
October 12, 2012I can recommend you two products. both free and open source. try them.. I prefer lebre office.
AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com/
LibreOffice
http://www.libreoffice.org/
ha14
October 12, 2012Jarte freeware and there is also Jarte Plus shareware
http://www.jarte.com/
LyX
http://www.lyx.org/
Harish Jonnalagadda
October 12, 2012I have used LibreOffice at work and it works wonders. It has most of the functionality and is very lightweight. Since then, I have moved on to online editing and now use a combination of Google Docs and Zoho Show.
Zoho Show is by far my favorite these days as I just seem to like the minimalistic interface.
Adrian Rea
October 12, 2012Have you considered using an online application from say zoho, googledocs, thinkfree and many more. I think most are free and are better if you decent internet connection. .Worth a look
Rajaa Chowdhury
October 13, 2012Download the Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012 (8.1.0.3375) from http://www.kingsoftstore.com/software/kingsoft-office-freeware . The download size is only 39.1MB.
Alternatively, do not download anything and just use the MS Office Web Apps over the internet, it is again totally free. More details at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/web-apps/ .
Aditya Roy
October 13, 2012Instead of downloading a software, try using google docs/drive.
There are plenty of online substitutes, such as Zoho Writer, Crocodoc,Primary Pad, Edupad, Greendoc.
Sam Kar
October 13, 2012Following are my recommendation:
1. SoftMaker FreeOffice for Windows – no separate word
http://freeoffice.com/en/download/freeofficewindows
2. Kingsoft Writer Free 2012 – separate word
http://www.kingsoftstore.com/download-office
3. AbiWord-separate word
http://www.abisource.com/download/
PS: not all of the above provides ability to open/edit .docx documents
Chris Reich
October 13, 2012Wordgrinder is the smallest word processor I’ve found. It does not even require graphical user interface, meaning it runs in terminal mode or on computers not running a desktop environment.
I highly recommend AbiWord if you need to run in a graphical user interface environment with a mouse. If you’re running Mac OS X, then “Bean” is the preferred choice.
While both OpenOffice and LibreOffice are big downloads, when running any of the individual applications in the suite, only the part of the suite you’re using will be running. For example, while using the LibreWord, your computer will not use any of the code for LibreCalc or any of the other applications.
I hope this helps – Chris Reich; Rochester, New York
Sushil Kathpalia
October 13, 2012If you have good internet speed then try Microsoft online word processor..
Paul Pruitt
October 14, 2012Don’t forget WordPad that is already installed in Windows.
Deekshith Allamaneni
October 14, 2012If OpenOfice and LibreOffice are bulky for you, then “Abiword” is for you.
Adrian Rea
October 15, 2012If you get a chance Vicki, I am sure we would love to hear what you chose to do in the end.
Pwince Khan
October 16, 2012if you are regular internet user then you can choose google docs without downloading and working online
Declan Lopez
October 17, 2012libre office or abiword. you can also use google docs in offline mode if you have a gmail account
Nathan Labbe
October 17, 2012try note++ or notepad++
Irshaad Abdool
October 17, 2012windows live >> Documents >> New word document
howard wolowitz
October 18, 2012why dont you use portable apps?
howard wolowitz
October 18, 2012they are usually small and fast
Dave Rimmer
October 29, 2012I have Kingsoft Writer and it#s quite good and a small download there are a couple of links to it already form a few people, I recommend it.
Vicki Maye
November 5, 2012I really appreciate all the responses I received on the word processing programs.
I decided to download AbiWord. I didn’t have any problems downloading the program.
If I ever have any questions I will definitely come here to get the information.
Thanks again for all the help,
Vicki
Timothy Clark0
December 25, 2012OpenOffice isn’t all that small, but it’s just as good as word!