Common Word Processors A comparison MS Word Open

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 – Free Versions Open. Office. org, Libre. Office, Apache Open. Office and others • Wordpad – Part of Windows since Win 95 or even earlier and has been improved in Win 7

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.

A Simple Note - Word

A Simple Note - Writer

A Simple Note - Wordpad

A Letter - Word

A Letter - Writer

A Letter – Libre Writer

A Letter - Wordpad

Documents with Images - Word

Documents with Images - Writer

Documents with Images - Wordpad

Posters - Word

Posters - Writer

Posters – Wordpad

Reports - Word

Reports - Writer

Reports - Wordpad

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 Power. Point presentations

MS Office Suite = Open Office Suite • • • MS Office Word Excel Power. Point Access = = = Open Office Writer Calc Impress Base

Questions

Demos? • MS Word • Open. Office/Libre. Office Writer • Wordpad