AbiWord

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word and is rapidly becoming a state of the art Word Processor. It has lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. It is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives it a massive potential user-base. Is part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation.

The goal of the project was the development of a cross-platform, Open Source office suite beginning with AbiWord, the projects word processor. Has been created by a worldwide group of volunteers and currently supports many languages and operating systems. Is GNU Free Software, which means that you will always have the freedom to use it, make copies of it, and improve it. You are encouraged to make use of these freedoms and share the program with your family and friends!

Features:
Multi Platform . Interoperable with MS Word, RTF, OpenOffice, WordPerfect . Advanced Document Layout . Multi language versions . Mail Merge . Extensible Plugin Architecture.

What use is a Word Processor when you can't share your documents with your friends? Is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

Do you also hate writing tens of thousands form letters by hand? With AbiWord's Mail Merge capabilities, you can let automate that job for you. Special fields inserted into a template document can automatically be replaced with data coming from a variety of sources, such as Relational Databases, Comma Separated Text files or Tabbed Text files.

You can process text documents .Can edit,write or modify text spreadsheets.Supports print and a lot of settings for the layout .Also,can insert table,rows,convert table to text customize list and make zoom for the page view.