3 free alternatives to Microsoft Word

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Seguro que muchos de vosotros, aún cuando usáis Windows, habéis tenido problemas con Microsoft Word. Una mala actualización, un malware, quitar archivos accidentalmente, etc … y con el mismo resultado: no poder editar nuestros documentos de texto. Esto es un obstáculo si nos acostumbramos use Microsoft Word and we don't have an alternative to it.

Lo crea o no, es común. Es por ello que siempre es bueno tener una alternativa a esta aplicación tan utilizada y necesaria. Proponemos tres alternativas que son gratuitas y al scope de todos.

LibreOffice

LibreOffice es una suite ofimática absolutamente gratuita que podemos conseguir en su portal Web oficial. Esta suite ofimática tiene una aplicación llamada LibreOffice Writer que no es más que un procesador de textos sin costes pero potente que nos permitirá editar y crear documentos de forma profesional. LibreOffice Writer enables you to do everything Microsoft Word does, except macros.

Unlike Word, LibreOffice programs no nos posibilitan ejecutar macros de Word, algo molesto para muchos pero que hace que nuestro equipo be seguro. Y la ventaja interesante (al menos una de ellas) de LibreOffice Writer es the method of saving in pdf format. LibreOffice has one of the best systems for storing a document in pdf format and it is highly recommended if you work with that format.

Google docs

La alternativa de Google además es interesante, muy interesante. Al mismo tiempo de ser gratis y tener webapps que podemos instalar en Windows para tener un procesador de textos, Google Docs allows us to convert the text to various formats, edit it in a community way and even incorporate it into web pages.

Google Docs doesn't have tools as complex and powerful as Microsoft Word's macros or image editors, but it does have one buen software TTS que nos permitirá transcribir a texto los dictados que hacemos. A curious feature that little by little is gaining more followers. Google Docs cannot be installed, we will need an online connection to edit, but it is cross-platform. We can enter it through this Google web portal.

Dropbox paper

This text editor is recent and not very popular, but it is really good. It is a text editor created by Dropbox, hence its name. There is no native application for this, but in return its web application allows us to work in a community way, in other words, in a group. Dropbox Paper has an advantage over other alternatives and Microsoft Word: its integration with Dropbox.

Paper makes it possible for us to work very well with Dropbox, which means that we can save any document, change or image to the cloud disk and work with Paper. This also happens in Microsoft Word and LibreOffice, but not as well as with Dropbox. Dropbox Paper can be used for free and it supports the most popular text formats.

conclusion

A tool as complete as Microsoft Word is difficult to find. But it is also true that no one uses this tool in its entirety, in other words, there can always be something that we do not use or we only focus on writing text. That is why, in an emergency, any of these three alternatives is good and can get us out of a lot of trouble.

Personally, if I have to select an application, I would stick with LibreOffice Writer: fast, without the need for Internet and functional. If we always have the Internet, it is important to try and use Google Docs. Whatever the case, being free, we will always be able to try them all and choose which one we choose. Don't you think?