Writer online word processor, with a look mimicking DOS-based text editors running on a green-phosphor display, makes it easy to create and return to a text file, with no sign-in.

How to Open Word Documents if You Don't Have Word. Microsoft Word is the world's leading word processing application, and documents created in the program are saved in a proprietary format.

Apple includes a free, basic word processing program called TextEdit on all machines running OS X, its computer operating system. Use TextEdit to open Word documents on your Apple computer.

Since then more than 200 people have worked on the open word processor over the years. It’s now down to a core of nearly two dozen, finally bringing the product to fruition.

This powerful little word processor has almost all the features you'd ever need.