AbiWord 2.8.5: Word Processesing Software Like MS-Word

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

Features:

Multi PlatformEnjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use - be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

                InteroperabilityAbiWord 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. Advanced Document LayoutGive your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.
InternationalizationSince not everyone in the world speaks the same language, AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages.
Mail MergeWith AbiWord's Mail Merge capabilities, you can let AbiWord 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.
Extensible Plugin ArchitectureThe main AbiWord program is very small and requires very little resources to run. This allows AbiWord to be used on systems that are not considered "State of the Art" anymore, which comes all too quickly in the IT world.

What's New:
· Editing/Layout
· Fix German smart-quotes (Patrik Fimml)
· Bug 12552: fp_TextRun::itemize() leaks memory (Obin Hickory)
· Bug 12508: Prevent some crashes in recent-files code (Paul Bolle)
· Bug 12346: Pressing TAB removes text in the Windows version (Martin Sevior)
· Collaboration
· Support non-TLS connections for the abicollab service backend (Marc Maurer)
· GUI
· Bump the copyright date to 2010 (sum1)
· Bug 12551: Fix a memory leak in the menu code (Patrik Fimml)
· Windows
· Fix a potential crash in the Windows menu code (Marc Maurer)
· GTK+
· Bug 10377: Fix GTK+ landscape printing (again) (Patrik Fimml)
· Bug 12501: Fix GTK+ build to work without PATH_MAX (e.g. Hurd) (Patrik Fimml, sum1)
· Fix paths to the offline documentation (Patrik Fimml)
· Add an abiword(1) manpage and install it (Patrik Fimml)
· Restore/fix the AbiWidget focus grabbing behaviour (Daniel Drake)
· Prevent selection events to be emitted by the AbiWidget during smart quote operation (Martin Sevior)
· Maemo

Licence: Freeware

Download: AbiWord 2.8.5 (8 MB) | Portable AbiWord 2.8.2 (6.5 MB) |

Create Auto Table of Contents in MS-Word 2007/2010

Microsoft Office! one of the most used Word Processesing Suite in technology world. It allows you to create, manage your word processesing work more easily. It automates you each and every work of yours. Today at Free Software Advisor you'll learn: 

How To Create A table of Contents in MS-Word 2007/2010.

Yes! Microsoft Word gives us the option to automatically create the table of contents of our documents, books, research papers etc... created in Microsoft Word. Here Free Software Advisor will tell you the steps to create auto Table of Contents for your documents etc...

How to Create Auto Table of Contents in MS-Word...

Here I have created a sample document to teach you, How to create an automatic table of contents for your lengthy documents.

Step 1:

Prepare you own document in Microsoft Word.

Step 2:

 Now click on the red highlighted box (style arrow) to open the styles window.

Step 3:

Now assign the styles to your content. Give heading, subheadings styles to your text, as shown in the image below.

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Step 4:

Now click on References tab and then click on the table of contents tab

Now right click on the Automatic Table of Content and select the suitable option where you want to put the table of contents. Usually it is always added at the beginning of the table.

Your Auto table of content is added to the beginning of your document.

 

Step 5:

If you already have added the page numbers to your document, then you can skip this step if you don't have added page numbers follow the following step shown in the image. 

Create Chemistry Equations and Diagrams in Ms-Word

Hello Readers:

No Doubt Microsoft Word is the worlds top leading word processesing software, and provides you the most effective and efficient tools for your text formatting. As earlier, on Free Software Advisor platform you learned about 

How to create Mathematics Equations in Microsoft Word .

How to Insert Quranic Verses and Translation in Microsoft Word.

How to Save Ms-Office files into PDF format.

Today Software Advisor platform brings another especial tool for persons/students/teachers who deal with Chemistry, and prefer Microsoft Word for word processesing. Microsoft Research has recently released a new Ad-in  for word 2007-2010 to deal with chemical formulas and diagrams on the Microsoft Word platform. You easily can convert any Chemical name or formula into its Chemical Diagram, of standard name. You are a student, professor, or a professional chemist, This Chemistry add-in is an effective tool for you. Using this add-in you can easily bring chemistry to your computer. 

Download the Chemistry Add-in from the following link

Chemistry add-in

After downloading Install it on your system.  Run the following ChemistryAddinforWordBeta2.Setup 

After the installation you'll have the Chemistry tab on your Ms-Word ribbon 2010 as shown below.
(this tutorial is based on Ms-Word 2010)

Now Question arises How to use this add-in in Ms-Word?
Using Chemistry Add-in
Using Chemistry add-in is not a big issue, using this add-in you can insert an already created diagram from chemistry gallery to you documents.

You also can convert any chemical name into it equivalent chemical form. All that you need to do is, simply make a right click on the word and select "Convert to Chemistry Zone" and then click on its name. as shown in image below.

Now if you click the Chemistry Navigator button as shown in image below. You'll see the chemical form  in the sidebar. There you can choose to insert diagram into the document. Some of the Chemicals will be automatically converted to the diagram, but some others may be linked to it in the side bar.

You can also convert a chemical name / formula to it equivalent diagram. Here I used Water(H2O) as an example.
First I converted it to Chemistry Zone. If you have written the H2O formula instead of Water, then by clicking on the Convert to Chemistry Zone, it'll automatically be converted to diagram, If its written water, then you'll need to follow the following step.

Once you have completed the step 1. Click on the View button as shown in the image below.

After Clicking on the view button a new popup window will be opened. There you can choose from any of the available representations of Water. For its Diagram you'll have to choose the 2D option, shown at the top of all available options.

Once you selected the 2D option. The word Water will be converted to its equivalent Chemical Diagram as shown in the image below.

Click To Download Chemistry Add-in

Decrease Ms-Office Auto Recover Interval

Hello Readers:

Office 2010 is one of the best Word Processesing Suite. It has many features, regarding the privacy of your documents, prevention from data loss and many more...

Auto Recovery is a very known and useful feature of Microsoft Office, with the help of which you can keep your data safe from being lost due to th system crash, power failure. This feature automatically saves a temporary based copy of your document at certain time intervals. By default this time interval is set to be 10 minutes. Which is a long duration. 

Today Free Software Advisor will tell you how you can easily  change the Auto Recovery time interval. This is useful if you are having problems like load shedding, power failure due to any other reason, system crash or any other problem. 

To guide you through the whole process I'll be using Microsoft Word 2010, but the same options tab can be found in all the Microsoft Office Applications:

Just Click on the FILE tab on the left upper corner of MS-Word 2010, or 

Office Button of Ms-Word 2007 and click Word options

File > Options

Click on the save tab shown in the left dialog box, and be sure to check the checkbox of "Save AutoRecover Information" as shown in the image below.

Here you can choose the time interval, how often you want Ms-Word to save a temporary copy of your document. 

My Words: 

Don't Choose too small interval, make it 2 or more minutes. Because with this 1 minute interval while working on the large documents it may slow down your computer. Because while working on the large documents and saving your documents every 1 minute will cost your computer in terms of slow processesing.

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Advance Typography in Microsoft Office 2010

Advance Typography in Microsoft Office 2010

Fonts can help your documents stand out and be easier to read, and Office 2010 helps you take your fonts even further with support for OpenType ligatures, stylistic sets, and more.  Here’s a quick look at these new font features in Office 2010.

To use the advance font features in Office Twenty Ten (2010). Open new document and type there some text and follow the steps shown below....

Once you clicked on the font as shown in the image above. Now choose the font named Gabriola as shown in the image below.

Now, Clack on the Advanced tab, to choose from different options in OpenType Features.

You can choose the Ligatures settings as shown below.

At the last Stylistic Sets for you fonts, The drop down button always shows options from 1-20. Mostly fonts include 1 or 2. Gabriola includes up to 7, You can choose 6 or 7.

Once you are done with all of these settings your typed text final face will be like this.

The font ligatures change based on context, so they will automatically change as the text is being typed.  Watch the transition as I typed the word Free Software Advisor in Ms-Word with Gabriola stylistic set 7.

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