Common Word ProcessorsA comparison
MS WordOpen Office Writer
Wordpad
Dean SteichenMay, 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.
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 PowerPoint presentations
MS Office Suite = Open Office Suite
• MS Office = Open Office• Word = Writer• Excel = Calc• PowerPoint = Impress• Access = Base
Questions
Demos?
• MS Word• OpenOffice/LibreOffice Writer• Wordpad