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Surely many of you, even when you use Windows, have had problems with Microsoft Word. A bad update, malware, accidentally deleting files, etc ... and with the same result: not being able to edit our text documents. This is a hindrance if we get used to it use Microsoft Word and we don't have an alternative to it.
Believe it or not, it is common. That is why it is always good to have an alternative to this widely used and necessary application. We propose three alternatives that are free and available to everyone.
LibreOffice
LibreOffice is an absolutely free office suite that we can get on its official website. This office suite has an application called LibreOffice Writer that is nothing more than a free but powerful word processor that will allow us to edit and create documents in a professional way. LibreOffice Writer enables you to do everything Microsoft Word does, except macros.
Unlike Word, LibreOffice programs they do not allow us to execute Word macros, something annoying for many but that makes our equipment safe. And the interesting advantage (at least one of them) of LibreOffice Writer is 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
The Google alternative is also interesting, very interesting. At the same time of being free and having webapps that we can install in Windows to have a word processor, 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 good TTS software that will allow us to transcribe the dictations we make into text. 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?
