Nifty Author for Windows

By Axenicsoft
Free
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Key Details of Nifty Author

Create, format, edit, save, export, and print electronic documents.
Last updated on February 9, 2015
There have been 6 updates
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Clean (it's extremely likely that this software program is clean)

Developer's Description

Create, format, edit, save, export, and print electronic documents.

You can use this free word processor to create, format, edit, save, export and print electronic documents. It's compatible with Microsoft Word and its multi-tab capability allows you to work on multiple documents in the same window.

If you are familiar with Microsoft Word, then you already have the basic skills to use Nifty Author. Its familiar interface makes it easy to work on multiple documents at the same time.

Nifty Author for Windows

By Axenicsoft
Free
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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: February 9, 2015

Latest update: February 9, 2015

Version: 1.3

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows Vista
Windows 8
Windows 7
Windows XP

Additional Requirements: None

POPULARITY

Total Downloads: 362

Downloads Last Week: 1

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3/5

1 User Votes

Great word processor but won't save user preferences
El CapitánJuly 19, 2015
Pros
? Easy to use ? Elegant user interface ? Lots of international dictionaries (over 80 languages/cultures) ? Full-featured for general purpose/personal/creative writing use ? Customizable (fonts, paragraphs, styles, page setup and background, application skins) ? Document protection with passwords ? Multiple documents handled via tabs ? Supports doc, docx, xml, rtf, txt, odt, htm, html, mht, epub formats ? Visual help ? Gratis!
Cons
? Won't save most user preferences ? No user-defined templates ? No PDF export ? No footnotes/endnotes (may affect academic users)
Summary
Office suites are not the way to go if what you want is a dependable word processor. There are some excellent fast & frugal alternatives out there (Jarte, PolyEdit) that come in freeware versions with very modestly priced upgrades for those who might need additional features. They blow WordPad out of the water and give Word a run for its money, which is pretty steep. Nifty Author is a new alternative geared to personal users. It won't do everything MS Word and Libre Office Writer accomplish with aplomb, but most of that stuff are things folks will have no need of outside their office (like mail merge and collaborative work and whatever). Nifty has a severe limitation, though, which cost it 1.5 stars in this review: it won't save the vitally important user preferences. This means you will have to reenter them each time around, which takes several precious minutes doing a boring task best left to the computer. User-defined templates would be a way to overcome this limitation. The other half-star was lost due to no PDF export support. That is also a quick fix for a future version. Footnotes/endnotes are not that big a deal when Zotero is around. Ergo, if templates and PDFs are brought aboard, we'll have a five-star contender in Nifty Author.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Jul 19, 2015<p/>I submitted the above review with Pros and Cons marked with bullets. They were changed to question marks by the dork-bot, which now won't let me correct them.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Jul 19, 2015<p/>I submitted the above review with Pros and Cons marked with bullets. They were changed to question marks by the dork-bot, which now won't let me correct them.<br /><br /><span class='notifyMsg'> Updated </span>on Jul 19, 2015<p/>Dealing with this bot is frustrating.