have advice on a writing software that works?? I am tired of writing by hand and I am getting more and more accustomed to being on the computer. Don't have alot of money so need to be under a 50.00.
Just use Wordpad. It detects misspellings as well as allowing different font changes and colors. Nothing wrong with it, unless you're looking for something with a dictionary, thesaurus, grammar correction and a spell-checker. In which case, something like Wordperfect (which is what I use) would be-- heh, perfect for you. I am unaware of the cost of the latest version, so you should ascertain that, yourself.
I would just use the program your computer came equipped with. I use Microsoft Word 2007, but anything model works.
I use Microsoft Word but you can also just use Open Office, which is free. Open Office has a program called Writer that pretty much does whatever Word does and can even save documents in Word format if you wish. Good luck.
Ha you beat me to it. I use Open Office. It's on the same scale as Word and in my opinion a little better.
Where can you get open office?? I was looking online and I found WordPerfect Office for 16.00 to 18.00 so I am hoping that I can get it at officeMax or Office Depot or something like that.
I am going to try to download the open office because if I can I would like to keep my costs as low as possible especially now.
Microsoft Word is the standard, and I'd recommend that for the long term. Open Office is supposedly compatible, and probably is upwards of 99% of the time, so if you cannot afford Word at this time, Open Office is probably your best interim choice. I would not recommend a pure text editor like Wordpad for serious writing. You will eventually want to use some of the more advanced features of a real word processing program eventually, e.g. named styles.
I use OpenOffice, but sometime when I get distracted at everything, I use DarkRoom, which is a fullscreen, black background, green font text editor. Stops me from procrastinating.
OpenOffice.org Writer is fine - I'd agree with others who say it may even be a little better than Word. It will read and write MS Word documents fine, the only change I've noticed is little differences in where the page breaks occur. The spell-checker is a little weaker though - just make sure you're careful acting on any mistakes it picks up.
I downloaded the openoffice program. Now, how do I use it?? It does not seem to have any open pages on it to write?
I presume you've managed to install it OK? If not, follow the instructions here: http://download.openoffice.org/common/instructions.html (scroll down to "Comprehensive Installation Instructions" if you need them) There're some free tutorials here ... http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/category_index/wordprocessing.html
