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Features

What WordCraft can do today, organised the way Word’s ribbon is. Based on the project’s documentation as of version 0.7.0.

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Writing and formatting

Typing, fonts, paragraphs, styles and lists behave the way Word users expect.

  • Typing with input methods (IME), smart quotes, AutoCorrect and automatic lists
  • Fonts, sizes, colours, highlighting, character spacing, Format Painter and Change Case
  • Alignment, indents you can drag on the ruler, line spacing, tabs with leaders, borders and shading
  • Built-in styles with a live Styles gallery, plus your own styles, style sets and themes
  • Bulleted, numbered and multilevel lists with custom formats
  • Find and replace, including regular expressions
Writing and formatting: Typing, fonts, paragraphs, styles and lists behave the way Word users expect.
Screenshot: WordCraft project, MIT/Apache-2.0.

Insert

Tables, pictures and shapes

Build tables and place pictures, shapes and text boxes on the page.

  • Tables: insert by grid, merge and split cells, table styles with banded rows, header rows that repeat on every page, sorting and formulas
  • Pictures: resize, crop, recolour, brightness and contrast, background removal and rotation
  • Shapes and text boxes, with square, top-and-bottom, behind-text and in-front-of-text wrapping
  • Headers and footers, page numbers, fields and symbols
Tables, pictures and shapes: Build tables and place pictures, shapes and text boxes on the page.
Screenshot: WordCraft project, MIT/Apache-2.0.

Design

Document design

Change the look of the whole document at once.

  • Themes and style sets
  • Paragraph spacing for the whole document
  • Watermarks, page colour and page borders
Document design: Change the look of the whole document at once.
Screenshot: WordCraft project, MIT/Apache-2.0.

Layout

Page layout

Control the page itself.

  • Margins, orientation, paper size and columns
  • Page, column and section breaks
  • Different first-page and odd/even headers and footers
  • Line numbers, automatic hyphenation and drop caps
  • Vertical alignment of text on the page
Page layout: Control the page itself.
Screenshot: WordCraft project, MIT/Apache-2.0.

References

Academic and long documents

The tools a thesis, paper or report needs.

  • Tables of contents
  • Footnotes and endnotes
  • Citations and bibliographies in APA, MLA, Chicago or IEEE style
  • Captions, tables of figures and cross-references
  • Indexes and tables of authorities
Academic and long documents: The tools a thesis, paper or report needs.
Screenshot: WordCraft project, MIT/Apache-2.0.

Mailings

Mail merge

Create personalised letters, envelopes and labels.

  • Mail merge from a CSV file
  • Merge fields, address blocks, greeting lines and rules
  • Preview the results, then finish to a new document
  • Envelopes and labels

Review

Review and collaboration

Edit with other people the way you do in Word.

  • Track changes, with accept and reject
  • Comments in margin balloons or in a pane
  • Compare two documents
  • Spelling and grammar checks as you type (English, plus Polish, Portuguese, Italian and Croatian with a system dictionary)
  • Thesaurus and word count
  • Restrict editing, accessibility checker and document inspector
Review and collaboration: Edit with other people the way you do in Word.
Screenshot: WordCraft project, MIT/Apache-2.0.

View

Views and interface

Read, write and find your way around long documents.

  • Print layout, web layout, draft, read mode and focus mode
  • Navigation pane, rulers and gridlines
  • Zoom to one page, multiple pages or page width
  • Dark mode
  • Interface in 18 languages as of 0.7.0, following your system language

File

Files and formats

Start from a template, open recent documents, and save or export in the format you need.

FormatOpenSave
.docx (Word)YesYes
.doc (Word 97–2003)YesNo
.odt (OpenDocument)YesYes
.rtfYesYes
.htmlYesYes
.md (Markdown)YesYes
.tex (LaTeX)YesYes
.txtYesYes
PDF (selectable text, links, bookmarks)NoYes
PNG page imagesNoYes