They come in hand to the people who do not want to buy Microsoft* Office or download a very large file. Just get one of the many free text editors available out there (small files to download, really).
To make a short story shorter, these are the programs I tested:
Abiword is an Open Source program and it is cross platform – you can run it across many operating systems.
It has many advanced features and yes, it has a portable version , (very useful if you write your blogs or emails on someone else’s computers or in Internet Café’s).
It allows you to convert text to table and tables to text, and it has all the nice, advanced features that Microsoft* Word has and more.
I have been using the portable AbiWord when Microsoft* Word 2000 kept crashing on me and I liked it very much. It is also, very useful when you do not have administrator rights and you cannot install programs (like me at work, good way to trick the admins!).
You can save your documents as txt, doc, mht, html, abw, awt and text.
You can also create web documents with AbiWord.
AngelWriter 3.0
This text editor is very similar to Microsoft* Word as GUI (Graphical User Interface) and features. Even the icons are almost the same as in Windows* Word .
You can insert pictures, links date, time and it has many Paragraph formatting features. Really nice software.
It can save the documents as *rtf, *txt and *htm or *html.
I would recommend it to anyone who needs a Free Clone of Microsoft* Word.
If you like the software you can donate some money to Angelic Software – support small developers.
At first, when I installed Jarte, I thought that the interface was …funny (to put it this way).
Then, when I checked the functionality of the program, I was surprised.
It has a configurable auto save function, a clipboard that can be viewed at any time by clicking on the clipboard icon, a very easy to use interface, it can open, edit and save txt, rtf and doc files and you can open multiple pages in tabs. With the sidebar you can access formatting options easily.
It does not have an option for creating tables or structuring the text differently.
Meanwhile I was writing this article; they (Carolina Road Software) posted a beta 3.0 version. Nicer interface and “clickless operations” (meaning that on mouse over, the menus are displayed.). Not bad at all.
This program looks like a notepad with advanced features and the ability to open *txt, *doc, *rtf and binary files and save *txt and *rtf files.
It has very nice features and the layout is very, very basic.
It can be copied to your USB thumb drive. It does not support very large files (*sad smiley*)
This program has a layout very similar to wordpad. It opens, edits and saves txt and rtf files.
What makes it different?
Auto completion. Type 1 or two letters and a list of words is displayed. Press the key that corresponds to each option (1-0).
In the Help file, there is a Tutorial on how to update your keywords, phrases. I guess this could be helpful for writing repetitive phrases although I would recommend Robotype(download here) for text-expansion programs.
Yeah Write is a program that allows you to create letters, notes, memos, diaries and your own journal.
It has pretty advanced features and it uses tabs and subtabs. This way you can edit your journal, memos and write letters in the same program, just by switching tabs.
However it knows to read rtf and txt files. I opened a doc file and I got a whole bunch of weird looking characters.
It has a free version which “includes 50% of the features” and a full version that costs $19.
Sport Scribe
“Sport Scribe has been developed as a word processor and emailer for use by club secretaries who need a straight forward means to communicate with their members. Of course it can be just as useful for anyone who needs an easy to use word processor. Best of all Sport Scribe is FREE.”
The program has very nice features. Most important (to me at leastJ) it has tables! Yes, the one you can use to create charts. And advanced formatting text options.
It opens, edits and saves rtf, txt and htm, html files. Not bad.
"Delphad is a Freeware Text - and RTF Editor with embedded HTML & Picture Viewer functions.
Delphad supposed to be a Word Pad replacement, because it includes all the word pad features plus plenty of additional functions.
With Delphad you can almost open any file, edit text or rtf, open Word Docs. It includes a term box to store often used phrases for a fast utilization and a file list box for browsing fast through all files of a directory. Delphad can embed OLE objects like Excel or wav files orpictures in a rtf document. Delphad also comes with a WYSIWYG Font box like the one in Word 2000 .
Delphad comes with setup & uninstall support!”
I think this pretty much says it all, the Graphical User Interface, is pretty much like Windows* 98.
Is a WordPad replacement and it is very small. Once installed, you can just copy and paste the files on your USB drive and you have yourself a portable text editor. For its size, I couldn’t ask for more. It opens edits and saves rtf, txt, htm, html and doc files (MS Office* 95-2002).
Tomahawk PDF+ is not only a text editor! It opens excel files, rtf, txt and htm, html files and converts them to pdf files. It will not open but it will save doc files.
If you needed to convert excel files to pdf, here it is. The best free solution!
If you have any suggestions or preferences and you do not see them listed here, leave me a comment. I will make sure to include them.
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