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Common Word Processors A comparison. MS Word Open Office Writer Wordpad. Dean Steichen May, 2013. Word Processors Compared. MS Word – usually part of MS Office Suite $$$ Open Office Writer – part of Open Office Suite
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Common Word ProcessorsA comparison MS Word Open Office Writer Wordpad Dean Steichen May, 2013
Word Processors Compared • MS Word – usually part of MS Office Suite $$$ • Open Office Writer – part of Open Office Suite • Free Versions OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice, Apache OpenOffice and others • Wordpad – Part of Windows since Win 95 or even earlier and has been improved in Win7
Common Uses • Notes to friends and acquaintances • More formal letters • Documents with images like Holiday Letters • Posters • Reports with tables • Others
File Formats Supported • MS Word 2007, 2010, …. • DOCX (default), DOC (Word ‘97-2003 versions) • RTF, PDF, ODT, XMS, TXT, XML, others • OO – Writer (Apache Open Office Version) • ODF (default), DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT, XML, others • Wordpad (Win 7 version) • RTF (default), ODT, TXT, XML
Implications? • Open Office Writer is a free alternative to MS Word for most users. • Open Office Writer can create pdf versions of documents like Word 2007 and newer can. • Open Office Writer is a more powerful and flexible alternative to Wordpad. • Wordpad is less complex and can do most things users want to do.
Open Office is not just Word Processing • Open Office provides the ability to: • Read and Write MS Word documents • Read and Write Excel Spreadsheets • Read and Write PowerPoint presentations
MS Office Suite = Open Office Suite • MS Office = Open Office • Word = Writer • Excel = Calc • PowerPoint = Impress • Access = Base
Demos? • MS Word • OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer • Wordpad