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AbleWord

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AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write most popular document formats including PDF's.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

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Platforms

  • Windows
4.3 / 5 Avg rating (3)
14likes
3comments
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Features

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  1.  Convert PDF to Word document

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    POX removed AbleWord as alternative to Walling
    about 1 month ago
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    POX added AbleWord as alternative to WebkitWord
    about 2 months ago
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    berkaygediz added AbleWord as alternative to SolidWriting
    3 months ago
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    laszlo000 added AbleWord as alternative to Fileverse
    7 months ago
  • TBayAreaPat reviewed AbleWord  
    10 months ago

    I will keep it for the rave reviews on PDF capabilities since I don't want to test that now, but as far as being word processor or being an alternative to WordPad, it keeps crashing on pasting of formatted text. It's engine seems weak.

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    BarnMTB added AbleWord as alternative to Ivirius Text Editor
    11 months ago
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    POX added AbleWord as alternative to Docs in Proton Drive
    12 months ago
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AbleWord information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.3
  • Alternatives

    54 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 3 comments and reviews about AbleWord, and it has gotten 14 likes

AbleWord was added to AlternativeTo by patrizia on Jan 3, 2014 and this page was last updated Feb 28, 2019.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
TBayAreaPat
Aug 31, 2024
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I will keep it for the rave reviews on PDF capabilities since I don't want to test that now, but as far as being word processor or being an alternative to WordPad, it keeps crashing on pasting of formatted text. It's engine seems weak.

Antiokh
Feb 18, 2019
0

The only free software possible to edit PDF as text

Jeff Witty
Dec 28, 2020

This is one of the "easiest" BUT:

there atleast 4 others: tomahawk (limited), TIA PDF Edit (full), Softmaker FreeOffice, and using free PDF to Word + Free PDF Editor (can only make pfd's, not edit solo)

bodwyn
May 10, 2015
0

Very impressed. Easy to install, worked like a charm to edit text and save as PDF. It's just like typing in a word processing document. Nice!

After looking at lots of reviews, 2nd choice would have been PDFedit.cz (also free, open source), but haven't tried it yet.

Commercially, I'd go for Nuance PDF Converter Pro, or Bluebeam. Nuance is easier for average users, but very capable and good after sales support. Bluebeam is a little pricier, but has some CAD tools for those that need them. PDFXchange gets a lot of positive mentions too (haven't tried it but know people who have) - free version puts a watermark; paid version is cheaper than Nuance.)

99% of features most people actually need to use are in any of these. Adobe is pricey and not needed.

To create/print and manipulate pages, PDF Redirect and PDFSAM work great and are free.

Cons: None found so far (first use only).

[Edited by bodwyn, May 10]

Having now re-edited the PDF I saved, AbleWord seems to have confused what areas to allow me to type in - a bit of a shame - it was doing so well. Easy enough to "insert text frame", but a shame it can't carry on seeing the frames that were in the original.

What is AbleWord?

AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write most popular document formats including PDF's. It is fully featured, supporting image formatting, tables, headers & footers and includes spell checking and print preview functions. Best of all it is totally free even for commercial use.

AbleWord can read and write the following file types: Microsoft Word (doc, docx) Adobe PDF (pdf) Rich Text (rtf) Plain Text (txt) HTML (html, htm)