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#Programs equivalent to microsoft word upgrade#

The Starter Edition has no time limits or advertising, but it is a good example of what I call “teaserware”–software that shows the menu items and buttons for features available only in a commercial upgrade (in this case, the paid version is $100). It provides most of the standard desktop publishing features, such as master pages, column flow, and easy ways to place, move, and lock text boxes and images.

If you want that kind of fine control over positioning and output, one alternative to look at is PagePlus Starter Edition, which is free. Microsoft Word has a lot of layout options, but it isn’t really a desktop publishing program. “When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like your thumb,” or so the saying goes. When I tried it in, I saw some errors in the layout all of the text and images were present, though, and things were just a bit misaligned.) is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux/Unix systems, making it useful in cross-platform situations. (I have a test document containing complex formatting with every bell and whistle that Word offers.

The interface is closer to pre-2003 Office, with standard menu bars instead of ribbons, and for the most part it can open Word 2007 documents. This article focuses mainly on programs that offer a significantly different function set, interface, or purpose than Word, but we would be negligent not to mention the free, an open-source office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, database, and more) that provides functionality roughly equivalent to that of Microsoft Office at a 100 percent price reduction.