{"id":532620,"date":"2010-04-18T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-19T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/softwares\/devicky-word.html"},"modified":"2010-04-27T09:43:52","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T13:43:52","slug":"great-free-ms-word-alternative-%e2%80%93-devicky-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/532620","title":{"rendered":"Great Free MS Word Alternative \u2013 DeVicky Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/GreatMSWordReplacementDeVickyWord_10B65\/noword.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border: 0px;\" title=\"no-word\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/GreatMSWordReplacementDeVickyWord_10B65\/noword_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"no-word\" width=\"80\" height=\"60\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a> [<em>Windows Only<\/em>] I don\u2019t have anything against Microsoft Word, except the price. Most businesses will pay the big money that MS wants, but a home user will usually use whatever is already installed on their PC. That does not have to be true. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/techie-buzz.com\/featured\/free-microsoft-word-alternatives.html\" >several free Word alternatives<\/a> that will happily do the same job. I found one free replacement that looks great and will even run quickly on older PCs. It\u2019s called \u201c<em>DeVicky Word<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/GreatMSWordReplacementDeVickyWord_10B65\/devickywordsnapshot01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border: 0px;\" title=\"devicky-word-snapshot01\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.techie-buzz.com\/images\/postimg\/GreatMSWordReplacementDeVickyWord_10B65\/devickywordsnapshot01_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"devicky-word-snapshot01\" width=\"301\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DeVicky Word not only does many of the things that MS Word does, it has a few unique features that make it worth downloading.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of some of the features:<\/p>\n<p>* Bullets and Numbered Lists &#8211; completely customizable<br \/>\n* Character and Paragraph Formatting &#8211; full WYSIWYG<br \/>\n* Document Sections &#8211; add as many sections as you need<br \/>\n* Headers and Footers<br \/>\n* Hypertext Links &#8211; inside and outside links<br \/>\n* Multi-Level Undo \/ Redo<br \/>\n* Page and Document Settings<br \/>\n* Page Columns &#8211; any number of columns<br \/>\n* Printing &#8211; what you see is what you get<br \/>\n* Search and Replace<br \/>\n* Spell Checking<br \/>\n* Tables &#8211; add tables within tables if needed<br \/>\n* Text Frames &#8211; add boxes of text anywhere<br \/>\n* Doc Reader &#8211; listen to you docs<\/p>\n<p>Supported File Formats<\/p>\n<p>* Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Export<br \/>\n* Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) Import<br \/>\n* Adobe Portable Document Format Archive (PDF\/A) Export<br \/>\n* Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)<br \/>\n* Image Formats &#8211; TIFF, WMF, BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF<br \/>\n* Microsoft Office Open XML (DOCX)<br \/>\n* Microsoft Word (DOC)<br \/>\n* Rich Text Format (RTF)<\/p>\n<p>After using it for a short while, I decided that I liked DeVicky better than the Word alternatives I\u2019ve tried in the past. It seems more responsive and launches much quicker than the full featured apps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Download DeVicky Word:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.devvicky.com\/products.php\" >http:\/\/www.devvicky.com\/products.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Techie Buzz Verdict:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I like the full feature set in DeVicky Word, but I mostly enjoy it\u2019s fast launching and quick response while in use. 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Most businesses will pay the big money that MS wants, but a home user will usually use whatever is already installed on their PC. That does not have to be true. 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