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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
- Date added: April 06, 2005
- Total Downloads: 69,790
- Downloads last week: 25
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 14 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Microsoft Word has become one the most commonly used software programs in the world, but there's always room for improvement. This suite of add-ons makes many of Word's features easier to use, and makes a few helpful tweaks to the interface. It adds a sidebar that offers simple access to many widely used components, such as non-English letters and special characters, bullets, and numbering. It introduces a tab-based navigation system that makes switching among documents more convenient. Several open documents can be saved together as a Workspace, and opened simultaneously with a single click. Individual document operations are equally helpful: the software offers the ability to clean all personal information, such as author, versions, and comments, from a document. It enables users to run up to 20 operations such as saving, printing, and e-mailing, without having to set up complicated macros. We did find one annoying bug: when working with a single document, its tab is displayed over the main program menu. However, in many Word users' minds this will likely be an acceptable price to pay for the genuine convenience offered by this suite of tools.Publisher's description
From Romke Soldaat :WordToys gives you dozens of free utilities that make Word easier to use and more fun to work with. Create unique graphical Favorite Fonts, Favorite Symbols, and Favorite Bullets menus. Navigate like a pro. Insert accented characters. Select the parts your mouse can't reach. Backup while you save. Copy and paste any format. Print to any printer. Adjust formatting to fit text within a certain space. Sort paragraphs in any order.
Version 2.0.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.1 stars out of 14 votes
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: WordToys 2.1
"Makes professional word processing more complicated."
Pros: It works, and does what it offers to do.
Cons: Download it if you like loads of little buttons to click on. It really is a "toy" for people who like to play with word processing. I use Word as part of my job, and found that it doesn't really make life any easier.
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12 out of 13 people found this review helpful
Version: WordToys 2.1
"Looked nice, BUT kept crashing Word! Had to go!"
Pros: The idea and potencial very attractive, began working but crashed out.
I'm on XP and WORD 2K
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: WordToys 2.1
Pros: It's Free
Cons: It doesn't work like it is supposed to and and every time I try to use it, it freezes on me and I have to shut it down.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: WordToys 2.1
"not free only a trial and a short 1 at that"
Pros: great idea
Cons: wrong list- not free
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: WordToys 2.1
Pros: Overall some extremely good tools, but not all!
Cons: When it is first opened, a screen stating that it only lasts for a small period of time, so you have to upgrade because some functions become no longer usable.Yet! in your advert on the download page you state Lcense FREE and unlimited. So some misguidance. IS CNET aware of this!
Regards
brian Bevan
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