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[–] gataloca@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A good alternative is abiword. Don't know if it exists on Windows tho.

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[–] Brkdncr@artemis.camp 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I get it. MS has a “free” rich text editor, it’s Word online. You can easily install any other simple rich text editor (is abiword still a thing?) on Windows. Wordpad probably has minimal usage.

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[–] Zoldyck 7 points 1 year ago

Oh for fucks sake

You can add it back to the library from an older edition, and it will run fine if you want it badly enough.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Install Linux, use whatever the hell you like

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[–] elshanerino@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

eh, there's plenty of tools out there like notepad++, atom, obsidian, etc.

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[–] gnuplusmatt@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago

how will I read the instructions a vendor sent me for a windows server that is a word doc because who knows? Oh no... Anyway

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