AbiWord AbiWord is a free open-source word-processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for typing papers, letters, reports, and memos. AbiWord is able to read and write all industry-standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, and HTML Web pages. Give your document that professional, scientific, or fun-to-read look using AbiWord's advanced-document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes, and styles to enhance the way your document looks. AbiWord comes in many languages. Make sure your document contains none of those nasty spelling errors by using AbiWord's built-in spelling checker. Dictionaries exist for more than 30 languages.