Audience
Users searching for an application to read, manage, write and create PDF files
About AbleWord
AbleWord is a very capable word processing application that can read and write the most popular document formats including PDFs. It is fully featured, supports image formatting, tables, headers & footers, and includes spell checking and print preview functions. Best of all it is totally free even for commercial use. There are a few free Word Processing packages available for Windows but none come close to the features offered by AbleWord. It is highly compatible with popular document formats including .DOC & .DOCX but Ableword can also open and save as a PDF which makes it a very useful tool to have. AbleWord very simple to install and use, it is commonly used as a PDF editor and also for converting PDF to Word® but of course, it is also a splendid word processor and supports most of Microsoft Word®'s features. For more information see our getting started guide or online help.
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Platforms Supported
Windows
Training
Documentation
Support
Online
AbleWord Frequently Asked Questions
AbleWord Product Features
PDF Editors
Offline Access
Access Controls / Permissions
Annotations
Commenting / Notes
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Customizable Branding
Delete Pages
Electronic Signature
Forms Management
Full Text Search
Merge / Append
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Rearrange Pages
Rotate Pages
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