MS Word is deservedly the most popular text editor in the world. This program finds its application in many areas and will be equally good for home, professional and educational use. Word is just one of the programs included in the Microsoft Office package, which, as you know, is distributed by subscription with an annual or monthly payment.
Actually, it is the cost of a Word subscription that forces many users to look for analogues of this text editor. And today there are many of them, and some of them are not inferior in their capabilities to the full-featured editor from Microsoft. Below we will look at the most worthy Word alternatives.
Note: The order in which programs are described in the text should not be regarded as a rating from worst to best, nor from best to worst; it is simply a list of worthy products with a consideration of their main characteristics.
This is a cross-platform office suite, one of the most popular in the free segment. The product includes approximately the same programs as the Microsoft Office package, even a little more. This is a text editor, a spreadsheet processor, a tool for creating presentations, a database management system, a graphics editor, and a mathematical formula editor.
OpenOffice functionality is more than enough for comfortable work. As for the word processor itself, called Writer, it allows you to create and edit documents, change their design and formatting. As in Word, it supports inserting graphic files and other objects, creating tables, graphs and much more. All this, as expected, is packaged in a simple, clear, conveniently implemented interface. It is also important to note the fact that the program is compatible with Word documents.
Another free and cross-platform office editor with ample opportunities for work. Like OpenOffice Writer, this office suite is well compatible with Microsoft Word formats, according to some users, even to a slightly greater extent. If you believe them, this program also works noticeably faster. Analogs of all components included in the Microsoft Office package are also of interest here, but we are only interested in one of them.
LibreOffice Writer is a word processor that, as befits such a program, supports all the functions and capabilities necessary for comfortable work with text. Here you can configure text styles and format it. It is possible to add images to a document, and you can create and insert tables and columns. There is automatic spell checking and much more.
Here is another office suite, which, like the above analogues, is a free and quite worthy alternative to Microsoft Office. By the way, the program interface is in many ways similar to that of Microsoft's brainchild, however, if you do not take into account the latest versions of the program. If the appearance does not suit you in any way, you can always change it to suit yourself.
The Office Writer word processor supports Word document formats, provides the ability to export documents to PDF and can download file templates from the Internet. As expected, the capabilities of this editor are not limited to just writing and formatting text. Writer supports the insertion of pictures, the creation of tables, mathematical formulas and much more is available, without which today it is impossible to imagine comfortable work with text documents.
And again an office suite, and again a quite worthy analogue to the brainchild of Microsoft. The product includes an application for creating presentations and a word processor, which we will look at. It is noteworthy that the program for working with text is well adapted for touch screens, has a rather attractive graphical interface and a number of other advantages.
In Galligra Gemini, as in all of the above programs, you can insert images and mathematical formulas. There are tools for page layout, standard Word formats DOC and DOCX are supported. The office suite works quite quickly and stably, without loading the system. True, on Windows there are sometimes slight stutters.
An office suite from the world-famous search giant, which, unlike all of the above programs, does not have a desktop version. Google Docs are designed exclusively for working online, in a browser window. This approach is both an advantage and a disadvantage. In addition to a word processor, the package includes tools for creating spreadsheets and presentations. All you need to get started is a Google account.
All software services from the Google Docs package are part of the Google Drive cloud storage, in the environment of which the work takes place. Created documents are saved in real time, constantly synchronized. All of them are in the cloud, and projects can be accessed from any device - through an application or a web browser.
This product is aimed at collaborating with documents, for which it has all the necessary capabilities. Users can share files, leave comments and notes, and edit. If we talk directly about the tools for working with text, there is more than enough for most users.
So we looked at the five most relevant and functionally equal analogues of Microsoft Word. Which one to choose is up to you. Let us remind you that all the products discussed in this article are free.
