Today imagine working with documentsany direction and level of complexity without the use of computer information processing tools is simply impossible. The era of typewriters is gone. In most cases, if you do not take specific information or calculations, it is necessary to process texts. Consider the most popular and common free programs for working with documents of certain types. Separately, we focus on the test files.
As you know, most userscomputer systems based on the Windows operating system prefer to work with the standard MS Office application package, in which programs are presented almost for all occasions.
However, it is currently possible to find a massalternative developments, which also include programs for working with documents of any type that are not inferior in their functionality to MS Office, and in some cases even exceed it.
In any package, regardless of the developer,There are applications that allow you to create, view and edit text files, spreadsheets, databases, as well as process graphic objects or even multimedia.
First, let's look at the well-known office suite from Microsoft. It is considered to be universal, since the programs for processing documents used in business are most widely represented here.
Неудивительно, что многие разработчики не стали reinvent the wheel and just copied most of the applications, including their counterparts in their own packages. MS Office itself contains several main applications, among which Word, Excel and Access are most often used.
Speaking specifically about text documents, WordIt is the progenitor of the DOC / DOCX format, which today is supported by almost all third-party packages. However, the developers of this software also did not stand aside, and eventually they introduced into their editor the ability to work with formats differing from the standard ones that other developers use by default.
After all, if you look, for example, at the possibility of opening or saving a text document, you can even find support for PDF files here. But more about that later.
Собственно, сам Office можно загрузить и install for free, the only thing that is required is the product activation key. This does not stop anyone, because you can make it with the help of a small utility called KMS Activator. In other free packages there is no such mandatory requirement for activation or registration.
At the dawn of the development of office programs MS Officeoccupied a leading position, because its creators were able to include in a single set of programs for working with documents of completely different types, which allowed us to create a tool for working with them, as they are now called, an “all-in-one” standard.
Still, leadership has been too longIt turned out to be impossible, since quite serious competitors appeared on the market. At first, the Lotus Pro package was such, and a little later another serious development appeared called Open Office. By the way, many experts name this package not only as a direct competitor to Microsoft, but also draw users' attention to the fact that it has some additional tools that the standard MS Office does not have.
But let's focus on text files thatToday are the most common in document flow. For viewing and editing textual information, the most simple, as it seems, applications like Notepad, included in the standard Windows set, can be used. Yes, indeed, in Notepad, you can work exclusively with text, similar to how it was in Norton Commander under DOS systems. Everything here is almost the same, only Notepad has a graphical shell. Needless to say, there is no need to speak about any formatting of the text, design or insertion of additional objects.
But few know what exactly Notepad andprograms for working with text-type documents like it support the syntax of most of the programming languages known today, so programmers and application developers prefer to work with such editors.
Now a few words about the text editor Wordand its analogues. Consider an example when a user has a “clean” system on a computer. If someone does not know, the office suite is not included in the original Windows suite; it must be installed separately. Therefore, many do not even realize that the system has a free program for working with Word documents (it is “embedded” in the system).
This is a WordPad application (Viewer). You can open and view Word files in it, but there are no special possibilities for editing a document. Uncomfortable, of course, but better than nothing.
However, in the absence of Word open suchtext file can be another way. This will help Adobe Reader, Acrobat or Acrobat Reader. Any such program for working with text documents containing graphics allows you to open files of almost any text format or import their contents. Depending on the type of application, the editing options also differ, but even if there is no such tool, you can view the files anyway.
Of course, consider all office-type applications.just impossible. However, even regarding Word documents or text files, it can be noted that working with them can be quite simple. If there is absolutely nothing at hand, you can view these types of files even with the help of the most common web browsers, not to mention saving them with the ability to edit them in “cloud” services. By the way, many of them provide an opportunity to simultaneously make changes that are automatically displayed for all users currently connected to the remote editor on the server.
