There is no way to edit pdf files. NotePro can only export to pdf.

Hello dan,
I can't guess What went wrong with your trial to edit any of your Pdfs with Ableword. But It really worked smoothly for me and many probably. Make sure your Pdfs are text based , not scanned pdf . Ableword can't edit any scanned pdf / image based pdf as it doesn't include OCR Technology. To be able to edit a scanned pdf document you will need to use OCR software. See How to Use AbleWord as a PDF Editor .

Edits all the simple pdf's I've tried, including ones I created using Nitro pdf Reader virtual printer from chordie website. Worked a treat in customising other peoples interpretations of a songs arrangment.

Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins work fine.

@JGF: "Please comment only on the software here"

I am sure at least half of us come here strictly for the comments regarding (and links to), alternative programs. Comparing a GAOTD offering to other applications is absolutely appropriate grist for the mill.

Fully agree. Been using it for years.

And how much does Word cost these days? Notepad is inadequate. Something like this program is needed for basic text editing. Personally, I am Word-free for the first time in years, with Libre Office for formal docs and EditPad Lite for simple text. If your needs are straight-forward, a program like this might do very well.

I am looking for a way to swap the current character with the next character.

We often make this typo e.g.

"teh" instead of "the"

"nto" instead of "not"

A rare word processor has this feature built-in.

@ric: "I am looking for a way to swap the current character with the next character"

See my comments above re NoteTab.

Not so with Jarte (read replies to comment 2 above).

Anything I do in Jarte shows up in any other word processor I've used.

@CJ Cotter: "I have a number of text editors similar to this, ..."
There are two categories of editors: text editors and document (for lack of a better word), editors. NotePro is a "document" editor.

Text editors ONLY edit and produce pure text files. The files only contain the document's characters - no formatting info other than line terminators, tabs, spaces and the like. While font choices and alignments are usually available, they apply to the entire document and are not retained as part of the file. One can easily read the raw disk file.

OTOH, "document" editors allow formatting of individual characters, lines, paragraphs, etc but at the expense of embedded format controls that are application specific and make the raw disk file unreadable (such as rtf, dox, htm, etc).

There is a need and place for both.

Libre Office and today's offer, Note Pro, are a completely different kind of shoe. Libre Office is a huge slow bloatware. And a Wordpad replacement like this is usually very fast and easy to handle.
If you're really looking for a good full blown yet fast and easy to use word processor I suggest you try out Softmaker Office. There is a free version available.

LibreOffice Writer is a "word-processor" program with full set of "ms-office" properties, many of them never used by an average user - but that doesent mean that it is a bloatware, it is just unnecessarily complicated for the simpliest tasks. LibreOffice includes also other modules - Excel an Powerpoint alternatives, database, image editor (you dont need to install those if you dont need them).
on the other side of the scale there are notepad alternatives and "programmers editors" working with "text only" files (some of them really sophisticated - there is another set of features not needed for the simply tasks).
this gotd seems to be in the same category as MS Word and LibreOffice Writer - it is just simplier, easier to use, maybe a bit quicker. i believe it is a good choice for many of us, but as a Notepad replacement as well as MS-Word replacement it is too "stupid" for me - i didnt test it, i just looked od the sw description to see that. but maybe for 80% of us it will be a perfectly sufficient word processor.
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LibreOffice is slow? i have poor hw but i dont find it slow - few seconds to start the program (if it is not "pre-loaded") or open a huge file are no problem for me, during the work there are no delays and i am much slower then any sw...

Wow ... does this programme bring back some memories of my early PC days....
Imagine this quote from the help file for example:

"Fortunately, if you have more than 128K of memory and are using DOS 2.0 or higher, you can keep the editor and your text in memory while running the printer program"

U R the Man :) XPMan but this IBM software is NOT free.
PC-Write
Quicksoft 219 First Avenue North, #224
Seattle, WA 98109
$10 (program disk)
$75 (registered copy)

Agreeing with XP-Man 100%. I used/put PCWrite on many PCs at the hospital I worked at as Director. Yes, I paid the shareware fee for each one installed. IBM's editor was about $400 if I remember. Qedit by Semware was another that i grew to use for myself there. To me it was PCWrite on Steroids.

I digress. These old programs are often released into Freeware. This Giveaway seems to be just fine for an editor and being free today is "wunnerful". Thanks. Going Back to the nursing home now... on my Golf Cart.

The program is considered abandonware in that the company that produced it no longer exists, so no idea where you could possibly pay the registration.:-)
The man who wrote it (Bob Wallace founder of Quicksoft) and many other useful programs died in 2002.

The download from the first link I offered appears to fully function.
Would be great if he could be run in a DOS window say as in the UltraEdit, which unfortunately I do not have.

Please note you need to press F1 twice to get the help command and then the down arrow to step through the various function descriptions.

"This copy is different than the Windows command in that blocks can be copied say from the middle of the text page."

Just a note if anyone is interested - MS Word can copy blocks of text too. Simply hold down Alt while marking text and it will copy the marked area. Occasionally useful.

JR.
Well I never knew that, thanks!
Microsoft Word has a superb find and replace function, Word 6 in Windows 3.1 probably being its finest because of the excellence of Word Basic.

Unfortunately, it cannot handle control characters and this is where PC-Write is required.

Are you sure the "block copy" is program specific and not just a MS-DOS window specific mark area then press enter to copy the highlighted region?

For text based format manipulation I find PFE32 Programmers File Editor 32bit, imensly usable for using Find and replace and recording macro's to convert a CSV database table export into say a SQL backup file to regenerate a database from one program using say sqlite3 to ms-access compatible mdb.

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/steveb/cpaap/pfe/pfefiles.htm

It's not intended as a word processor, obviously and is very win32s, windows95 in look and feel but it allowed me to transmogrify many a data file into a format I needed and saved having to write a program to do it for me.
You could simply select the text you want find, including whitspace characters like line feeds, carrige returns and tabs etc and the Find dats field would be auto filled with any special encoding for the white-space characters, one could then fill in the replace data box based on your needs and the encoded white-space charcters...

Ahhh, but does Shift+F3 work? (Case cycle)
And does it capitalise first words in sentences?
Word features I can't do without.

Anyone tried Quark Express before?

Actually, there are. At least one in particular has all that functionality and more. Namely, NoteTab from Fookes Software (freeware and paidware versions available). It is a text editor that has block mode cut & paste, Find & replace for the full ANSI set (including control chars), supports RegEx, builtin column summation, expression evaluation, spell checker, multi-tabbed UI and capitalization (all, title, sentence, invert), to name just a few features. But, most importantly, it includes a scripting language far beyond simple macros that allows one to automate almost any task - not just text editing. It is my second "must have/most used application" - ZTree being the first.
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@TK: "Are you sure the “block copy” is program specific and not just a MS-DOS window specific mark area then press enter to copy the highlighted region?"

In a Windows Shell/DOS console window, a "block copy" functionality is builtin. However, there is no "paste". There is no native support for block editing in Windows programs - any such support is application unique.
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@Phaedron: "And does it capitalize first words in sentences?"

See above regarding Notetab.

How do we get the activation key, please?

Hi, there is no activation key on this occasion Deesap, but if You want to be sure - run 'activate.exe' from Your Download Folder after installing the Software. See what it says in 'help/about' in Prog itself to put Your mind at rest:)

does any one would know how does it compare to notepad++ if at all, are they in different directions?
how about converting codepages ?

"A test to open a .DOC file from my list resulted in an error:"

I was able to open a MsWord (2003) .doc file without any problems.

Nice intension, Ulusse. However, it'll still be appreciated, when/if some co-users still posts alternative in the freeware category ?
Today's offer looks like most organizers, and now I'll give it a try - just to see, if it's any better than my preferred tool for that purpose - Efficient Man's Organizer. I use the portable version : http://www.mansorganizer.com/freeedition.htm

Thanks for the offer to, Chrystal Office Systems and our team behind GAOTD. It can't be our lucky draw each and every day, can it? Greets from a sunny Denmark. Summer has arrived.

While I agree with your sentiments about complaining I find this site an invaluable resource for finding Open Source or free alternatives to programs I might want to use.

In my opignion it is interesting to get ideas of similar software, especially freeware alternatives. I would not like to miss that.
I don't like to depreciate any offers just because someone personally may not use it.

Here is an freeware alternative out of many - AbleWord ( http://www.ableword.net/ ) - It is more than just a word processor which also helps to edit PDF files ( Text Based ) as simply as Word documents .

Couldn't agree more. This needs to be said every so often as remarks have a tendency to wander.

I'm seconding Jahid's recommendation to AbleWord - very capable and ultra-light word processing application to read and write Microsoft Word documents and PDF files: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/word-processor-replacement.htm (Hint: read the comment by paul bucuresti on 25. May 2015, please)
The installer - only 3.5MB! And the best part of it: it's freeware!

Ulysse- It NEVER claims EVER to be the best- only free- sometimes, there are a great many for a short time offers. You need to read licensing.

While we're on the subject in this comment thread, I may as well add Jarte to the mix. It is very powerful and comes in free and Pro versions. This one has a direct tie-in to Nitro PDF so that you can directly save .rtf's and immediately produce a .pdf from the same file without closing the window. You can have multiple files open concurrently, without straining your computer's resources, and can have pictures directly in the text without saving them first onto your hard drive.

Forgot to say, but it should be obvious, Jarte dot com is where you'll find it, if you're interested.

@bart: Jarte is very cool - Thank you!

James, Why are you so quick to criticise?
1: William didn't say that he didn't try it. You're assuming this to be the case.

2: He says he is happy using the 'Lite' version of a different software, which (he also states) is free. I would hardly call this promoting commercial software.
3: If you feel you need to reply, please don't be so rude. What you've said doesn't add to the conversation, and just makes you look petty and angry.

I'm not saying there can't be some polite disagreement in the comments section, but telling someone off just for the sake of it should not happen. Normally, the correct response to a post one doesn't like is to ignore it and move on. (The only reason I'm posting this publicly is because I think we all need to reminded sometimes that the people we reply to are real people, and a little politeness goes a long way.)

As for myself, Thanks for today's offer, GAOTD and Crystal Office Systems. I'll give it a miss this this time though. :)

Interesting. You criticize Gorman for using the word "appear" yet you fail Reading Comprehension 101. He clearly stated he was using a freeware version which you completely passed over - not a "with a price tag" version as you wrongly accused him. And yes, it is completely legitimate for him to pass on something based on specs as is his right and, again, as he clearly stated. That's what specs are for. If the specs for what he already has is no better than what is being offered, why waste the time, risk and effort to DL something else?

@James: I use Edit Pad Lite quite often and consider it an excellent program. As WWG points out, it is free.