Best Word Processors for Microsoft Word
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This a list of Word Processors that integrate with Microsoft Word. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Microsoft Word. View the products that work with Microsoft Word in the table below.
What are Word Processors for Microsoft Word?
Word processors are software applications that allow users to create, edit, and format written documents. They offer a variety of tools and features, such as spell check, font styles, and page layout options. Word processors are commonly used for tasks such as writing essays, creating business reports, or composing emails. They can also save documents in various file formats for easy sharing and printing. Overall, word processors provide a user-friendly platform for creating and managing written content. Compare and read user reviews of the best Word Processors for Microsoft Word currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Microsoft 365
Microsoft
Microsoft 365 for Individuals is a complete productivity suite that combines powerful applications, secure cloud storage, and AI-driven tools to help users achieve more in their daily lives. It integrates popular apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, and OneDrive, all enhanced with Copilot—Microsoft’s intelligent AI companion. The platform enables seamless collaboration, creativity, and organization across devices, including PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Android. With Microsoft Designer, users can create stunning visuals, while Clipchamp adds professional-grade video editing capabilities. Built-in Microsoft Defender provides advanced security for personal data and devices. Microsoft 365 empowers individuals to imagine, create, and accomplish with greater efficiency and confidence.Starting Price: $9.99/month -
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Ashampoo Office
Ashampoo
Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations effortlessly - and with stunning compatibility! We've all seen Microsoft Office alternatives in the past but never one that is so affordable and fully compatible with Microsoft document formats past and present. An office suite without compromise, without a lengthy training period, Ashampoo Office 8 lets you create documents, spreadsheets and presentations faster than ever before. It's has all the options and comfort you'd expect from a modern Office suite. And Ashampoo Office 8 doesn't save your files in some online cloud service but where they belong: on your PC! You can even install it on a USB flash drive. It's the Office suite you've always wanted! Write is our modern Microsoft Word alternative that lets you create and edit documents of any size, from greeting cards, business letters and brochures to your entire thesis. With miniature page previews and a clickable table of contents, you'll never lose track of your documents!Starting Price: $39.99 one-time payment -
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Microsoft Office 2021
Microsoft
For customers who aren’t ready for the cloud, Office 2021 is the next on-premises version of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access, and Publisher. Create presentations, data models, and reports with tools and capabilities like PowerPoint Morph, new chart types in Excel, and improved inking across apps. Manage your time, email, and contacts more easily with features like Focused Inbox, travel and delivery summary cards in Outlook, and Focus Mode in Word.Starting Price: $249.99 -
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Pages
Apple
Pages is a powerful word processor that lets you create stunning documents, and comes included with most Apple devices. And with real-time collaboration, your team can work together from anywhere, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or using a PC. From the start, Pages places you in the perfect creative environment. It puts all the right tools in all the right places, so it’s easy to choose a look, customize fonts, personalize text styles, and add beautiful graphics. And everyone collaborating on a document has access to the same powerful features. Choose from over 70 beautiful Apple‑designed templates, and customize your reports, letters, and other documents any way you like. And, if you’ve ever dreamed of writing a book or fairy tale, it’s easy to create interactive stories right inside Pages. Track changes, add highlights, and have threaded conversations with your team. Your edits are saved automatically. -
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Calmly Writer
Calmly Writer
Traditional word processors include dozens of options for formatting text, distracting you from what really matters, writing. Calmly Writer is an editor designed to focus on what you want to tell, with a simple, unobtrusive, and easy-to-use user interface. Calmly Writer has been designed to help you focus on writing. As you start typing, all the distracting options disappear from the user interface. The "focus mode" option highlights only the paragraph you are editing at the time. Format your text simply by selecting and clicking on the desired style. If you prefer, you can also do it with keyboard shortcuts or markdown. As long as you do not close a document tab, that document will be opened every time you start the application. If the document was not saved, its backup will be loaded. Calmly Writer displays the number of words and characters written, and allows you to set a target. You can choose between light, dark, dark blue, dune and old-school mode.Starting Price: $11.45 one-time payment -
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TextMaker
SoftMaker
DOCX is the default file format of TextMaker 2021. This lets you skip the annoying import and export. You can open documents created with TextMaker in Microsoft Word, and vice-versa, directly, without conversion. With TextMaker 2021, you can also edit DOC and RTF files, as well as create high-quality PDF files. You can now also create archival PDFs in PDF/A format for the long-term preservation of your documents. SoftMaker Office Professional and NX Universal even enable you to create great-looking e-books in EPUB format. Daily correspondence is handled quickly with TextMaker 2021. Practical time-savers such as the built-in address book, automatic marks for folding pages, and attractive document templates make creating letters, mail merges, labels, and envelopes child's play. Create attractive flyers, invitation cards, and posters in no time at all using the sophisticated desktop-publishing functions of TextMaker, such as its unique object mode, intelligent object guides, etc.Starting Price: $16.50 per year -
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AbleWord
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.Starting Price: Free -
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AbiWord
AbiWord
AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. Our latest stable release is version 3.0.5. It's available in a number of languages and operating systems. AbiWord is usually available from your Linux distribution repository. AbiWord is rapidly becoming a state-of-the-art word processor, with lots of features useful for your daily work, personal needs, or for just some good old typing fun. This tour gives you a quick look into some of AbiWord's highlights. AbiWord has been designed to integrate perfectly with the operating system it runs on. It will take advantage of the functionality provided by the system, such as image loading or printing capabilities. What use is a word processor when you can't share your documents with your friends? AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, etc.Starting Price: Free -
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Jarte
Jarte
A free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows. A fast-starting, easy-to-use word processor that expands well beyond the WordPad feature set. A small, portable, touch-enabled word processor whose documents are fully compatible with Word and WordPad. Jarte is a WordPad-based, free word processor whose unique interface will make you feel like you are piloting a swift, nimble yacht by comparison. Although Jarte doesn't look anything like the office word processor you are used to, it can handle your word processing tasks with aplomb. If this sounds like the kind of word processor you are looking for then maybe you owe it to yourself to give Jarte a try. The Jarte word processor relieves that problem by including only the features likely to be needed by real people. Jarte is designed for students, writers, small business people, and home users.Starting Price: Free -
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RoughDraft
Richard Salsbury
RoughDraft is a freeware word processor for Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP. Although suitable for general use, it has features specifically designed for creative writing, novels, short stories, articles, plays, and screenplays. It's designed to be as practical as possible, offering all the features you need, but without being complicated or awkward to use. Special modes for plays and screenplays make formatting easy. A side panel that makes common operations quicker and more convenient. Instant backup of all open files to the device of your choice, a very convenient way to make sure you don't lose your work. Automatic creation of cover pages for manuscript submissions with word and page counts. Automatic insertion of user-defined words, for character names or commonly used words. Four extra clipboards for inserting longer phrases or paragraphs. A comprehensive but simple printing system, including a print preview.Starting Price: Free -
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Macro
Macro
In Macro, you can click on any defined term, section, chapter, clause, and more for instant context. Compare files, consolidate edits from multiple Word and PDF files into one version, generate blacklines in bulk, and compare to templates. Generate files from templates; create one or many documents at a time from a spreadsheet. Combine PDF and Word documents. Free with Macro for Windows and Mac. From an IT and support perspective, Macro is most similar to the desktop versions of Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word, with additional enhanced features for financial and legal workflows. This IT documentation proceeds chronologically. Click on any defined term, highlighted in blue, for a popup of the definition as provided within the document, including nested popups that can be used ad nauseum to unravel your document fully.Starting Price: $49 per user per month -
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Synap Office
Synapsoft
Synap Office is a cloud-based web office serviced by Naver Office. You can create and edit documents in various formats such as MS Office, etc. from a web browser without installing an application. Experience document work anytime, anywhere. Compatible with MS Word, save doc, docx, hml formats. Maintains table layout and enables table editing. Support for fonts, paragraph formatting, and headings/ footnotes in different styles. Allows editing of password-set documents. Compatible with MS PowerPoint, screen change, object animation support. Slide template setting and management, 140+ shapes, object editing. Insert image, shape, memo, text. Password-set documents can be edited. Easy questionnaire creation using templates. Free item addition and type selection. Quickly and easily share surveys by URL, e-mail, and blog. View summary in response result graph, and use response data in conjunction with Synap cell. -
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SmartEdit Pro
SmartEdit
SmartEdit Pro is an expanded version of the SmartEdit for Word Add-In. It contains a number of extra features of use to professional editors. We define a professional editor as someone who edits the work of various different writers, often working on multiple books from assorted writers. SmartEdit Pro contains report-generating capabilities that allow you to generate Word and PDF reports based on the results generated by SmartEdit, as well as full report printing functionality. It also allows you to create Projects (one for each writer, book, or genré of the book), and to apply different rules to these projects when running SmartEdit checks. The SmartEdit pro menu toolbar contains all the buttons and options you might be familiar with from SmartEdit for Word, along with the “create report” and “projects” sections. A trial version of SmartEdit Pro is not available, but sample reports are shown and linked for you to download and examine.Starting Price: $139.95 one-time payment -
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Microsoft Office 2024
Microsoft
Microsoft Office 2024 is the latest version of Microsoft's flagship productivity suite, offering enhanced tools for document creation, data analysis, collaboration, and presentation design. This version introduces a more intuitive user interface with streamlined workflows, tighter integration with cloud-based services like OneDrive, and improved real-time collaboration features across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. AI-driven functionalities, such as predictive text, advanced data visualization, and automated design suggestions, have been expanded to boost productivity and efficiency. Microsoft Office 2024 also places a strong emphasis on accessibility, security, and cross-platform compatibility, ensuring seamless experiences across desktop, web, and mobile devices.Starting Price: $149.99 -
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Draft
Draft
You don't need writing software; you need someone's feedback on your writing. You don't need version control software; you need to find all the things you've written without fear. You don't need distraction free text editors; you need to find ways to write more concisely, more clearly. You don't need real time collaboration software; you need a bigger audience for your writing. We're working on Draft to provide what you need. When I share a Google Doc, collaborators overwrite my master copy. It's insanely difficult to accept individual changes they've made. However, when you share your document using Draft, any changes your collaborator makes are on their own copy of the document, and you get to accept or ignore each individual change they make. With Draft, as you go along, you can mark major versions of your work. When you want to compare your old drafts, you have a powerful view to see how your document changed over time. -
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SmartEdit Writer
SmartEdit
SmartEdit Writer, free software for novel and short story writers. A free software to plan your novel, prepare and maintain research material, write your novel scene by scene, and edit chapter by chapter in a modern Windows application that has a similar look and feel to Microsoft Word. Store images & links to websites, all in a handy research section that sits right next to you as you write. Create character profiles, outlines & notes as you work. No more 100,000 word Microsoft documents. Write your novel one scene or chapter at a time. Drag and drop scenes inside your document until it’s just the way you want it. Identify word and phrase over-use, monitor adverbs, crutch words & clichés, and improve sentence structure & punctuation, all using SmartEdit’s editor toolbar. SmartEdit Writer allows you to group your work-in-progress and any research you’ve built up about it into a single project. Add folders, scenes, and notes to your document tree.Starting Price: $77 one-time payment
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