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Review

This review applies to version 2.6 The latest version of this software will soon be reviewed by our informers.

AbiWord is a useful word processor similar to MS word, but is rather a cross platform supported application. A good aspect of this software is its interoperability and wide range of platform supported such as MAC OS X, all windows platforms, QNX Neutrino 6.2 meaning almost every other operating system.
Moreover, AbiWord is capable of reading and writing all kinds of standard document types including the Microsoft Word documents, OpenOffice.org documents, WordPerfect documents, RTF, HTML, web pages and lot many others as well.
Along with the usual spellchecker as in case of any word processor, AbiWord comes with multiple language options of over 30+ language dictionaries in it, including the ones like Arabic and Hebrew as well.
It also has impressive Mail Merge capabilities, and possesses an effective command line interface to be used in server environment, making it possible to print or convert documents into any form.
Besides, it has a plug-in system designed to extend the functionality right from Document Importers, Thesaurus, and Image Importers down to a Text Summarizer.
Overall, AbeWord is a good word processing software just lacking certain advanced features of MS word, but multi-platform support is a big plus point.

Multi-platform support, mail merge and enhanced plug-ins

Lacks certain advanced features of MS word

Reviewed by: Nelson Sanchez

Reviewer rating: Editor's rating 4

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	Guest #3644708(beginner) 4 months ago
	version 2.6.8 is the latest stable version version 2.7.5 is the latest beta beta is for beta testers, not for me.

	Guest #4813869(beginner) 4 months ago
	Seems to work fine for a replacement for MS Word, if document format is not too complicated.

	seukumeama(beginner) Last year
	AMAZING NOW I NEVER USE DE OFIICE AGAIN

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