LOW has a very versatile chapter numbering functionality that you can launch by selecting Tools >Chapter Numbering: LOW offers a limited number of shapes, stars, lines, icons, etc. In contrast, LOW does not have much to offer in the images category. Word offers images, icons, cutout people, stickers, and illustrations, all free to use for Office 365 subscribers: MS Word comes with a great collection of images, shapes, icons etc.

Word offers much more elegant text boxes, with great text wrap features to prevent text overrides: But unfortunately, when you insert the text box and start to type in it, it types over itself. In addition, LOW offers a Word-like text box as well through Insert > Text Box. Word sections are not as practical and useful as LOW sections.

If you insert more than one section break marker into the same Word page, your formatting (especially the headers and footers) may start to get out of control. Word inserts sections too but it is mostly to separate different pages. The columns adjust automatically as you add more text into the section. You can really add variety to your page layout through this LOW feature.įor example, here is a 3-column section inserted in the middle of a single-column page by Insert > Section from the main LOW menu: It looks a bit similar to Word text frames but is much more flexible than that. You can insert a section anywhere in the document and change the number of columns, background color, etc. LOW has an interesting feature called sections. This is a feature I use frequently when I create text in Word or LOW. The text templates that LOW offers for new documents are very few and basic templates, nowhere close to what WOrd offers:īoth have a format brush through which you can apply one paragraph style to another. One obvious superiority of Word is the tens of ready-made templates available on every writing topic when you are creating a new Word document: Both are equally capable of generating many pages of decent text. you can use both MS Word or LibreOffice Writer (LOW) with confidence. If all you are doing is writing simple text like a letter, memo, article, etc. LibreOffice Writer is a part of the LibreOffice suite that you can download for free.

NOTE: MS Word is a part of MS Office suite that you need to pay for. Comparison of MS Word with LibreOffice Writer reveals many con and pro features for both text editors.

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