Abiword is a light-weight word processor that can read and write a large number of document formats, including MS-Word. Due to its small size, Abiword is well suited for use on older hardware, and will run happily on a 486DX with 16MB of RAM, while still letting you edit all the relevant document formats of today. Key features include HTML export, unlimited undo and redo, support for spell checking, styles, columns, tables, images, and bulleted/numbered lists.

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