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free scaled down word replacment
Edvard:
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned OpenOffice? It's pretty fully-featured, but not as big and complex as the later MS Office versions (although it's just about as heavy startup-time wise). Has the advantage that it works reasonably well with MS .doc files (and .docx) as long as they don't use too fancy features.
-f0dder (June 26, 2009, 08:31 AM)
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Perhaps because the request was for "basic word processing".
OpenOffice is still my favorite and the new version is quite nice, but installing it does bring in draw, calc, base, math, etc.
Wait... can't that stuff be selected or deselected at install?
That might be the way to go...
tsaint:
FWIW, a link to an OO / Softmaker Office comparison landed in my inbox this morning.
Its at Infoworld
tomos:
Also good and free: Atlantis Nova.
Nice and free: qjot (from xtort.net).
-criss (July 01, 2009, 06:08 AM)
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Atlantis Nova isnt free - you can get a free version via TrialPay
http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/register.htm
[edit] sorry bout that, see http://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/nova.htm [/edit]
the other one (qjot) sound nice
http://xtort.net/xtort-software/qjot/
Dormouse:
qjot doesn't do tables at all.
Whether it matters depends on whether you use them of course, but I always regard the ability to do tables well as an essential element of a word processor. Lots of note programs do them well too.
elpresi:
For those interested in Softmaker office 2008, there is a killer Ashampoo deal (same as Softmaker):
http://r.ashampoo.com/mailings/1/090410_en.htm for $4.99
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