Business/Word Processing
open source
OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is the open source project through which Sun Microsystems is releasing the technology for the popular StarOffice productivity suite. It is an international office suite that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format. It establishes the necessary facilities to make this open source technology available to the developer community.
freeware
Foxit Reader
Foxit Reader is a free PDF document viewer and printer, with incredible small size, breezing-fast launch speed and amazingly rich feature set. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7.
freeware
PDF-XChange Viewer
PDF-XChange Viewer lets you view PDF files on your computer or online just like other PDF readers can, but with "Typewriter Mode", you can type directly on any PDF page! Now you can fill out forms and add text to PDF documents that you would normally have to print out before you could write on them.
open source
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, memos, etc. It is designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities.
open source
Notepad2
Notepad2 is another small, fast notepad replacement with some unusual features. It includes zoom, rectangular selection, regular expressions, and more.
freeware
EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
freeware
Jarte
Jarte is a compact word processor and WordPad replacement with a unique, easy-to-use interface. Features include the ability to edit Microsoft Word documents, OLE support (the ability to insert pictures and sounds), tabbed document access, a quality spelling checker, page breaks, print previewing, visual header and footer designer, clip history, a reference bar, multilevel undo and redo functionality, and single-click bookmarking. A detailed help file is included.
freeware
Adobe Reader Lite
Adobe Reader Lite is a bloat-free version of the PDF viewer, Adobe Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader is free, and freely distributable, software that lets you view and print Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
shareware ($32}
TextPad
TextPad is a powerful replacement for Notepad, a tool for editing your Web pages, and programming IDE.
shareware ($35}
EditPlus
EditPlus is a Text editor, HTML editor, and programmer's editor. While it can serve as a good replacement for Notepad, it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers.
open source
OpenOffice.org Portable
OpenOffice.org Portable is a fully-functional package of OpenOffice.org optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow you to launch it from the directory of your choice. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more.
open source
AkelPad
AkelPad is an open source editor for plain text. It is designed to be a small and fast.
shareware ($35}
Atlantis Word Processor
Atlantis is a full-featured Word Processor with an innovative approach to document processing. It has been carefully designed with the end-user in mind. When processing text is work enough, the last thing you need is a bloated software with a slow and awkward interface. It is an intuitive user-friendly application and provides all the tools both novice and power users need for their everyday word processing tasks.
open source
Go-OO
Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has impressive features which should be in the official OpenOffice, but for some reason or another aren't, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, Excel VBA macros, Visio diagrams and Word Perfect Graphics support. It also boasts significantly better start times -- at least on our poorly equipped test machine.
freeware
TED Notepad
TED Notepad is a growing freeware text editor, fertile in innovative features, text-processing functions and other advanced tools. All of them on hotkeys; all designed for quick advanced editing and text cold-working. This light-weight portable notepad replacement fits on any USB flash disk and loads instantly with no installation required. Daily writing of notes, lists, scripts or even code can get even easier than you thought.
shareware ($30}
Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter
Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter is accurate and efficient PDF to Word software. User-friendly interface and fast conversion rates allow you to convert PDF to word which are fully formatted by simply few clicks. No Adobe Acrobat needed! Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter is exactly what you want!
Updated Adreamsoft PDF to Word Converter has great improvement on Conversion Quality, Conversion Speed and Conversion Stability. You can get your word document with the layout, format, text contents, and images in...
freeware
GetDiz
GetDiz is a program used to view DIZ and NFO files that are typically found in ZIP files.
freeware
Microsoft Office Suite 2007
The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 2 delivers important customer-requested stability and performance improvements, while incorporating further enhancements to user security. This service pack also includes all of the updates released for the 2007 Office suite prior to December of 2007. You can get a more complete description of SP1, including a list of issues that were fixed, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 936982: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1.
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shareware ($40}
EditPad
EditPad is a syntax coloring text and hex editor with a tabbed interface. It supports Unix and Mac files. You can search and replace across all open files. File comparison and a spell checker are also included.
open source
Scribus
Scribus is an open-source program that brings award-winning professional page layout to Linux/Unix, MacOS X, OS/2 and Windows desktops with a combination of "press-ready" output and new approaches to page layout. Underneath the modern and user friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation.
freeware
SciTE
SciTE is an open scorce text editor that can be both used as an editor of plain text and for an editor for programmming language. Has features like method folds, change languages and many other tools to help you edit your text better.
freeware
EditPad Lite
EditPad Lite is a general-purpose text editor, designed to be small and compact, yet offer all the functionality you expect from a basic text editor.
commercial demo
SoftMaker Office
SoftMaker Office contains a TextMaker (Word), Presentation (Powerpoint), PlanMaker (excel spreadsheets), and BasicMaker (Macro writer). All this in under a size of 45 Megabytes so it can load in an instant. It even comes with a quickstarter, but it may not be needed with the incredible speed of SoftMaker Office. Even with its amazing speeds it still leaves you with the ability to drag and drop arrange icons for a userfriendly interface. If loss of files has you worried about this wonderful product then...
shareware ($40}
EditPad
EditPad is a syntax coloring text and hex editor with a tabbed interface. It supports Unix and Mac files. You can search and replace across all open files. File comparison and a spell checker are also included.