AbiWord 2.8.5

Rated 50/50 by Richardrer1 at Jun 29, 2010

GREAT PROGRAM EASY TO USE There is nothing to complain about

Rated 30/50 by jaynbe at Jul 21, 2010

Still installing Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable-x86 9.0.21022 (2007 version) wich has been updated twice for critical security flaws to version 9.0.30729 (in 2009) The installer doesn't even detect the presence of the latest redistributable installed!

Rated 20/50 by rahmanroni at Aug 9, 2010

If you just need a word processor, its good and fast. Has great potential. Doesn't exactly meet all my need. Boring interface, not as productive. No templates or themes. If you want something free and simple for typing up essays for school and such, go with it. But if you want productivity, MS Office is still king.

Rated 30/50 by gordymor at Aug 31, 2010

When something is free and it helps you do what you need to do it certainly most welcome . this I cannot tell untill I use the program . Above all , its free .

Rated 40/50 by dugger691 at Sep 5, 2010

I recently downloaded and installed AbiWord for a friend, who didn't want to pay $99 for MS Office iin order to create simple Word documents. It does the job, though not as conveniently as Word, in my opinion. 1) I wish one could set ".doc" as the default format for saving files.2) In general, i found AbiWord to be a little more difficult to use than Word, especially for computer novices. Though not perfect, AbiWord is a reasonable free alternative to MS Word.

Rated 30/50 by lolsalad at Sep 13, 2010

Free, basic GUI, easy to use. One of it's pros is it's cons. It's lacking in some ways, though indescribable, and some might say it has a "too" simple user interface.

Rated 50/50 by yahpete at Sep 18, 2010

For something which is free, you can't really bit this program. Sure it may not have the bells and whistles of the microsoft alternative but I certainly don't needs those bells and whistles. There is a compatibility problem with some library computers when I want to print out documents in the format used. Great for free.

Rated 50/50 by bigbiggerben at Oct 24, 2010

a perfect second best to microsoft word ,since it does most things that does. expectation will be low,hence few folk will download it. OR WILL THEY ? I downloaded this from a seperate site,then thought this is too good to be true,so got rid in case it would cause damage to my comp...THEN I READ cnet reveiw and put it back on and that I am very glad that I did.

Rated 40/50 by doyledcurtis at Nov 29, 2010

Easy to use. 22MB of hard drive vs.500MB for OpenOffice. Used OpenOffice 1 year before I tried ABiWord. Used MS Word for about 7 years and Word Perfect for 8 years (15 years total processing complex legal documents in my law practice). As a freeware basic word processor there are no cons except I always change default font to Verdana (very easy on the eyes). I used Arial for many years but I switched to Verdana ab Great for basic word processing.

Rated 40/50 by longcatlis at Dec 17, 2010

Ease of use Nothing at the moment Have only used for minor letters at this stage

Rated 10/50 by zachleigh at Jan 5, 2011

Its free and easy to use as long as you dont want to put hyperlinks in. Hyperlinks make it crash occasionally and sometimes make your documents unreadable by any word processing program on the planet. I just lost two weeks of work because I put a hyperlink in over an apostrophe. That is stupid. Use this program if you want to loose weeks of work.

Rated 50/50 by jbishop2010 at Feb 11, 2011

I like the software, Because its very easy to use. Haven't figured out the hole software yet, but i will in the next feature. I really recommend this program. And the good thing is its free to get and well worth to get. But if it wasn't free its well worth the money. To the people that made this software, great job.

Rated 20/50 by nmgridl at Feb 18, 2011

Free, opens many types. If you uninstall it, the file type still is in file extensions. I was looking for a free basic word processor. Something more than Wordpad, but still pretty basic. I tried AbiWord and TinyWord, and choose TinyWord. Even though I uninstalled AbiWord, it's file type shows up on all my "Save As" menus, and as the default. I just want it to go away.

Rated 10/50 by John PIlge at Feb 21, 2011

It is free. Using WINXP, it would not load a text file, I could not copy and paste from another file to AbiWord, and too often I got the error "Program is not responding." when I checked the Windows Task Manager to see what was taking AbiWord so long to respond. A text editor would work as well.

Rated 20/50 by EXPLORER111 at Feb 23, 2011

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Rated 40/50 by jkizer at Feb 27, 2011

Fast to open, easy to use None to mention.

Rated 40/50 by EyeKnowIt at Mar 15, 2011

Per above, small size, quick start, saves in universally readable format - any wp can read the .abi or you may save in various formats. Excellent for 95% of daily work. Items on tool bars are fixed -cant add or subtract but can choose whether or not a tool bar displays. Slow to save multiple changes to a document. Good substitute for bloat ware, could be slightly more flexible but overall its a keeper!

Rated 50/50 by rebelbuck1 at May 10, 2011

Archives if needed. Once open, formats and prints with ease. Sometimes, slow to open. Updated on May 12, 2011

Rated 50/50 by Datalyss at May 17, 2011

Free; Seems to run well on my 64-bit Windows 7 PC. Haven't found any so far.