A friend of mine bought a brand new netbook last month. But as with most netbooks
, the Microsoft Office
Programs installed therein are only for a given trial period - 60 days if I am not mistaken - unless the user buys a licensed Microsoft Office.
, the Microsoft Office Programs installed therein are only for a given trial period - 60 days if I am not mistaken - unless the user buys a licensed Microsoft Office.Nonetheless, if one does not want to shed out some dough for Microsoft Office programs, there are some options. One of which is AbiWord. AbiWord is a free word processing program, similar to Microsoft Office. (There are also other free office programs to serve as substitute for PowerPoint and Excel among others, but for the purpose of this post, let us only focus on AbiWord.)
programs, there are some options. One of which is AbiWord. AbiWord is a free word processing program, similar to Microsoft Office. (There are also other free office programs to serve as substitute for PowerPoint and Excel among others, but for the purpose of this post, let us only focus on AbiWord.)
AbiWord can read and write "all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more."It also provides several layouts and styles to give your document a more appealing or professional look, as the case may be. Likewise, the software supports different languages, so wherever you are in the world and whatever language you speak, you are most likely to find this software very useful.
AbiWord also has a Mail Merge feature and Extensible Plugin Architecture - that is, there are plugins you can download and install to increase the functionality of AbiWord. One example of plugin is Thesaurus.
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