Excluding dictionaries, Wordz is really compact at just under 2Mb. Wordz is also 100% portable and can be either installed onto a flash drive or just copied across and run from there.

Something which really lacks in WordPad is Spell Checking and Live Spell Checking and I have addressed these issues in Wordz. Portability and speed.

I am 13 year old and I wrote Wordz primarily for my friends at school who did not have access to Microsoft Office at home and were using WordPad as an alternative. I set out to create an application which is more feature rich than Windows WordPad.

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Microsoft Office Word Viewer is a handy tool that lets you view or print any Microsoft Word document quickly, without having to install Microsoft Office in its entirety.

After a simple install process, run Microsoft Office Word Viewer and you're presented with an Open File dialog window. Remember: you can't create, change or save any document in Microsoft Office Word Viewer. Select your chosen file (the viewer supports DOCX files via a converter, as well as older DOC and other formats).

Upon opening your document, you'll see that Microsoft Office Word Viewer displays just as it would in the original Microsoft Word, only without any of the editing tools. This means that you can see editorial notes and changes, if they have been tracked on the document. Additionally, you may access the file's properties window which will display statistics and authorship information, along with other details.

While you cannot export or save any document from Microsoft Office Word Viewer, you do have two options for obtaining a copy of the text. You may either print the document (which works just as well as printing from the full version of Word), and you're also allowed to copy the text and paste it into another application.

In all, Microsoft Office Word Viewer 2007 is a small and useful free download for viewing Microsoft Word documents. While it has no editing functions, it lets you read documents from any version of Microsoft Word with ease.

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Using doPDF is piece of cake. All you need to do is open a document in Microsoft Word, WordPad, Notepad or any other text editing software, choose the Print command and set doPDF as your default printer.

doPDF will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer. The whole process takes less than a minute and you'll be amazed at how accurate the PDF version of your document is.

Another way to use doPDF is from the program’s own interface. Select the file you want to convert to PDF and hit the Create button to make it happen. On the downside, this option doesn’t let you configure conversion options such as page size, orientation and resolution.

doPDF is one of the easiest and fastest ways to convert your documents to PDF for free.

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Also, PDF to DOC supports converting the password-protected PDF files and specifying page range to convert.

Key Features: Friendly interface, small, accurate, and fast. Working without Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Supports converting PDF files to Word (*.doc) and WordPad (*.rtf) documents both. Retains the original text, images, format and layout in the output doc/rtf files. Supports converting PDF files in batch mode. Supports converting the password-protected PDF files. Supports specifying page range to convert.

The uses who need to convert PDF file to Word format for editing may need this program.

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Also, PDF to X supports converting the password-protected PDF files and specifying page range to convert (for DOC, RTF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, PCX, TGA files), and supports converting the PDF files that have some restrictions, such as Content Copying, Saving as Text, Page Extraction, Printing are not allowed (for HTML and TXT files).

Key Features: Supports converting PDF documents to Word (*.DOC), WordPad (*.RTF), HTML, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, PCX, TGA and TXT files. Friendly interface, small, accurate, and fast. Works in batch mode. Works without Adobe Acrobat or Adobe Reader. Retains the original text, images, format and layout in the output files as much as possible. Supports converting the password-protected PDF files (for DOC, RTF, JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIF, PCX, TGA formats). And so on.

If you want to edit the PDF files in Word or WordPad, publish PDF content as HTML web pages on the web, capture PDF documents, let your documents management system supports PDF search or want to extract the text from PDF files, it might be useful.

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Includes the recommended Microsoft methods. Has a previous file version client within the same interface. Works as an add-in facilitating faster batch like operation. Is freeware.

This is meant for an average user of Excel that has a corrupt file who would like to explore all free options before trying demos of the commercial Excel recovery methods.

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If you're a big fan of Wordpad but wish it was a little more advanced, then without doubt, TextPipe Pro is for you.

With TextPipe Pro you can specify all your text processing needs through one application rather than having to remember and manage several text editors, command line tools, custom scripts and Word and Excel macros. In a nutshell, TextPipe Pro basically makes it fast and easy to convert, transform and re-form data in text files including HTML and XML documents. Probably the most outstanding feature of TextPipe Pro is that it is very fast and can handle files of unlimited size. TextPipe Pro is also remarkably efficient at handling multiple tasks simultaneously. The advantage of this is that you only need to learn how to use one tool rather than several to do multiple tasks. For those that have invested a lot of money or are planning to invest a lot of money in an editor, it's also a much cheaper solution. If the developers claims are right, it certainly packs an impressive punch when it comes to making corrections. They report that in a recent speed trial, TextPipe Pro made the same number of changes to a document in seconds that took MS Word hours.

A very powerful all in one text editor, cleansing and conversion tool although it will only come into it's own if you're dealing with very large documents and tasks.

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NotePro has a clean, attractive interface that puts nearly all the options you'll need right on the well-designed button bar. NotePro handles standard text files, and also creates and saves Rich Text Format, Word, Windows Write, and HTML files used by Microsoft Word and other word-processors. You can have multiple documents open at one time.

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Offer 2 of its own data recovery methods and a client for recovering previous versions of files that even works with Vista Home Basic and Premium where recovery of previous version of files stored in the snapshots from restore points is not normally available.

1. It's freeware. 2. It offers easy ways to run through Microsoft's recommended methods for recovery. Other commercial programs don't do this. 3. It provides methods of its own. 4. It has a previous file version client.

Low income average user with a corrupt Excel file. Perhaps a user from the third world on a limited budget or students from the West who cannot afford commercial software.

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- Save As Arabic HTML files- Virtual Keyboard to show the Arabic keyboard, and when you click on shift, it shows the keys with shift (Arabic Tashkil - Punctuation)Requirements - Internet Explorer 5.

5 or more

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Do you need the processing power of Microsoft Word but don't have hundreds of dollars to pay for the Office package itself?

Jarte may be your answer. It's a free word processor based on Microsoft WordPad's word processing engine. It's extremely fast and easy to use. In a way it acts more like WordPad on steroids, adding tons of useful features to the basic word processor. It's very portable - it can fit on a USB stick - and yet it can open any document compatible with Word and WordPad.

Believe it not, Microsoft is continually upgrading the simple WordPad editing engine, although WordPad itself hasn't changed. never know it by examining WordPad. Jarte however takes advantage of these changes and has evolved to take advantage of the new useful features that Microsoft have added. These include tabbed document windows for easy access to open documents, larger buttons for the most commonly used functions, instant dictionary and thesaurus word look-up and a free spell check and text search tools that do not impose themselves on top of the text you are trying to edit.

There are many new features in Jaxtr that make it a superb option for those that can't afford or access Word but need it's processing power.

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What this program does is automatically check the spelling as you type in a word. There won't be any need to press on any hot key in order to perform this function.

The program acts like the average spellcheck program you have with any Windows application, but with additional features to speed up your editing process.

AutoSpell Complete Check provides suggested words to replace any misspelled word. The program works on not just words but with sentences and paragraphs to check if your sentence sounds logical.

AutoSpell Complete Check works on other web applications like Yahoo Instant Messaging, MSN Instant Messaging, fax applications, development tools from Delphi, Sourcesafe, Wise Set Up and Visual Basic C ++, Excel, Exchange, FrontPage, Microsoft Mail and News, NotePad, Outlook, Outlook Express, WordPad, Works, Word, accounting software and more.

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These operations include the standard Cut, Copy, Delete and Rename operations if they are appropriate, and will often include other operations which are specific to the type of object that was clicked on.

SOCKShell expands and enhances the Windows Explorer context menu by adding a number of new predefined options and allowing you to add any number of your own options, both to the main context menu and to the SOCKShell submenu.

The predefined options include: Analyse Pascal source code - Report on the number of lines, classes, functions, procedures etc. Explore in a new window - Open a new copy of Windows Explorer in the selected folder Copy the full path - Copy the full path of the selected item(s) to the Windows Clipboard Edit with Wordpad - Edit the selected file with Windows Wordpad Edit with Notepad - Edit the selected file with Windows Notepad Open a Command Prompt - Open a Windows Command prompt in the selected folder Set file attributes - Set the attributes of the selected file(s) and folder(s) Set file date and time - Set the date and time of the selected file(s) and folder(s)Of particular interest to programmers is the 'Analyse Pascal source code; option, which will process a single file or folder, or a whole directory tree, and produce a report of the total number of characters, lines, blank lines, comments, classes, functions, procedures and other information.

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FeaturesWorks with Windows 95, 98, NT 4, and 2000. Simple and unobtrusive - WinTabs places itself into unused part of window title bar. Simple installation and uninstallation.

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Wicked`s Net Author allows you to code your own webpage with ease using auto-complete and with colour coding. In case of power failure or machine failure while you are working on your webpage, you can easily restore your webpage to the point when your computer fails.

Wicked`s Lazy typer provide you mixed functions from both notepad and wordpad, allowing you use one program for both jobs. Wicked`s System Locker allows you to lock your computer with a press of a button to prevent intruders from viewing your work or using your computer while you are away.

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You`re no longer need to know XML, EXTREME DMOZ Extractor will display the data in rows and columns like a spreadsheet. You can browse and navigate the data easily.

EXTREME DMOZ Extractor was designed in a web developer mind. We know that you do not only need to see the data, but also need to process the data.

You may need to filter the data, split that large file into a smaller file so you can open it in wordpad or MS Excel, or convert to your own data format to be used by other software such as INDEXU.

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1. Powered by Microsoft Word-like rich-text tools, DailyPIM is quite helpful in keeping notes, recipes, famous quotations, tables, pictures, Web-links,and even entire pages from the Internet.

2. With access to the import and export to Word and WordPad (RTF),HTML,TXT. DailyPIM has functions such as search and replacement,paragraph formatting,compact storage of graphical images,and working with tables.

3. DailyPIM has unique and comprehensive plan alarm settings,multitude of predefined contacts fields, and the function of checking Email,making CHM file and changing interface skins.

4. DailyPIM provides the security for your data. It also provides the backup/restore solutions within the software. Welcome to the world of DailyPIM!

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