Thursday, February 21, 2013

Review: Free editor you can open and edit from more than 70 different file formats for free

In our everyday lives, we use a number of different programs, edit the various file types, with whom we work. There are word for .doc files, Excel for .xls files, PowerPoint for presentations, image editing software, video and music player, PDF Viewer, ZIP Expander hex editors, and the list goes on. Most of us have to use a separate program for each of these purposes and never stop to think about. Free editor claims to display and edit all file types listed above, and more, all alone to open.

For .doc files, links, highlighting, free editor contains all the basic formatting options, including tables, etc..

Free editor, as you can gather from the name is completely free to use, according to its support pages, can open and encode and edit by 75 different file types, including Microsoft Office files, other document files, image files, Windows files, and files. I chose to run my tests with simple DOCX and XLSX files and took over editor kidneys free. I was immediately impressed with how easy and responsive, it felt; There were no hang and no waiting, and apart from a strange but harmless error message appeared every time, when I opened a Word 2007 file, I could every file I chose to edit.

For Word documents support all basic editing free editor like formatting, images, links, tables, numbered or bullet lists, search and replace and more. The tables toolbar is very easy to use, and exceeds even the word native table tools. The editor contains also a spell checker, which is a nice touch. While free editor each DOC and DOCX File showed that I it, not it to facts and images that were already in the document.

With Excel files get things not Excel the formula bar a bit more challenging, such as free editor, it makes it is impossible included to use formulas. While you can insert a formula you want, there are no helpful suggestions to help you, and after entering a formula and a result, there is no easy way to know which formula to the cell will be written. Surprisingly, free editor contains advanced options for editing, such as conditional formatting – but without an oversight that so great it is not enough missing formula bar, such as the easy.

Spreadsheet editing in the free editor is not very intuitive, but includes advanced features such as conditional formatting and other customizations of the cell.

However, this is not the only big oversight. When it comes to editing documents, most people tend to use basic shortcuts. and what is fundamental as CTRL + C for copy and CTRL + V for paste? Both these shortcuts are NotSupported in free editor, makes you use shortcut menu or the toolbar buttons that are provided to the copy and paste. Another badly missing shortcut is CTRL + I for italic, was assigned to show the document info. CTRL + B for fat and CTRL + U for underline work, making it even stranger. Other key combinations such as CTRL + F for find, CTRL + H for find and replace, CTRL + P for print and CTRL + S for save work like charm.

There are still over 70 formats, the free editor that but open. Free editor has with image turn very basic editing, resizing and cropping, functionalities, brightness and contrast controls and three basic filters. He also manages open and edit ePub files, EXE files, TXT files, DLL files, BAT files, files like CSS and JS coding (though some lack of syntax-highlighting), and could even open and extract from ZIP and RAR files. It completely fails, but either open PDF or PowerPoint files, despite his claim to support them still managed to open and play several music and video formats to get no mention in the list of supported formats.

Do you remember how free editor so accomodating and easy felt think? It certainly does not, so imagine my surprise, as I checked the RAM usage and it 10 times is higher than Microsoft Word and 5 times higher than Microsoft Excel be discovered, if the exact same documents. In addition, the program prompts do not save changes to save when you close it, so it's very easy to lose your work if you forget. You will lose your changes if you save to the integrated hex editor - no prompt either here.

As an image editor is free editor very easy, but almost any file format can handle.

Free editor's strength lies in its ability, edit many file formats, and in addition, it provides almost perfectly. While the editing features are sometimes rather basic, it can be extremely useful if you are looking for a free way to edit documents, spreadsheets, code, etc. Its built-in hex editor and resource editor are also useful if you want to, and know how to EXE and other system files to get bored.

In comparison with paid options like quick view plus free editor is a fair fight, especially because of its ability to open media files and the attractive price, but are not so useful for companies, which often need to open PDF documents, presentations, etc.. Editor free for the average user provides no real benefits apart from free, and at the end, you're better off with a more specialized program with better features, less finicky.

Note: The download button on the product information page will download the software on your system.

Yaara Lancet

Yaara is a foodie and horse lover biologist who enjoys as a geek as a full-time job.
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