Word Processing
You're thinking about writing a book and you want to know which word processing program is the best to use. Microsoft Word is considered the gold standard. That doesn't mean you have to use it. There are plenty of alternatives, both free and paid for. You can check those out by going to google and searching for "best word processor".
Another thing to consider, is the "Office Suite" software. Microsoft has an office suite you have to pay for, Apache OpenOffice is free at https://www.openoffice.org/. OpenOffice does not have as many features as MS Office, but it is very good. If you’ve never used MS Office or MS Word, you might want to start with OpenOffice and see if it suits your needs. Just be aware that OpenOffice does not include an email program, a note-taking program, or included online storage space like MS Office now does. Microsoft now has a package called Office 365 Personal that costs $70 per year (https://products.office.com/en-us/off...). If you agree to this auto-renewed annual payment, you can download every Office program to one PC, including Outlook and OneNote. You’ll be able to run any Office app on one tablet and one phone for free. You’ll get one terabyte (one million megabytes) of free online storage space for use with OneDrive. You’ll get 60 minutes of Skype calls free each month. And, you’ll get free updates and free Microsoft Support for as long as you pay the annual fee. If you’ve ever used Word or Excel before, this is a pretty good deal for software you already know how to use.
Finally, if you are a beginner, you are going to want some help learning how to do things with your word processor of choice. I just went to amazon.com, selected the “books” search section, and typed “openoffice”. Amazon has 452 books about OpenOffice. Then I typed in “microsoft office” in quotes (so I don’t get books about just MS and other books about offices.) There are 14,313 books about MS Office. Or at least search results – I don’t know how many of those are real books! But, at least there is an OpenOffice for Dummies book. That would be a good start if you decide to try the free option. Then there’s YouTube tutorials and other videos. For “openoffice” there are 154,000 videos, for “microsoft office” there are 650,000 videos and for just “microsoft word” there are 582,000 videos.
Another thing to consider, is the "Office Suite" software. Microsoft has an office suite you have to pay for, Apache OpenOffice is free at https://www.openoffice.org/. OpenOffice does not have as many features as MS Office, but it is very good. If you’ve never used MS Office or MS Word, you might want to start with OpenOffice and see if it suits your needs. Just be aware that OpenOffice does not include an email program, a note-taking program, or included online storage space like MS Office now does. Microsoft now has a package called Office 365 Personal that costs $70 per year (https://products.office.com/en-us/off...). If you agree to this auto-renewed annual payment, you can download every Office program to one PC, including Outlook and OneNote. You’ll be able to run any Office app on one tablet and one phone for free. You’ll get one terabyte (one million megabytes) of free online storage space for use with OneDrive. You’ll get 60 minutes of Skype calls free each month. And, you’ll get free updates and free Microsoft Support for as long as you pay the annual fee. If you’ve ever used Word or Excel before, this is a pretty good deal for software you already know how to use.
Finally, if you are a beginner, you are going to want some help learning how to do things with your word processor of choice. I just went to amazon.com, selected the “books” search section, and typed “openoffice”. Amazon has 452 books about OpenOffice. Then I typed in “microsoft office” in quotes (so I don’t get books about just MS and other books about offices.) There are 14,313 books about MS Office. Or at least search results – I don’t know how many of those are real books! But, at least there is an OpenOffice for Dummies book. That would be a good start if you decide to try the free option. Then there’s YouTube tutorials and other videos. For “openoffice” there are 154,000 videos, for “microsoft office” there are 650,000 videos and for just “microsoft word” there are 582,000 videos.
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