Nifty Author is a free word processor that allows to view, create, edit documents, and also lets you set password protection so that no one can write or edit your document. It lets you work with multiple documents simultaneously on its interface which makes it more meaningful than some similar word processing software. Thus, you can open more than one document with Nifty Author, can edit them by inserting tables, images, adding hyperlinks, and more. It is one of the useful and completely free word processor and supports multiple file types, like *.rtf, plain text files, *.doc, *.docx, xml, html, ePub, and more.
Above screenshot shows interface of this free word processor which looks quite similar toMS Word and Windows Live Writer.
Key Features Present In This Free Word Processor are:
- A handy word processor that allows to view, create, and edit documents. Supports multiple file types.
- You can open multiple documents together on a single interface.
- Most of the options that you find in MS Word
- are available in this free word processor.
- It allows to protect documents with password. However, it doesn’t protect documents from reading, but nobody can edit your document if password is enabled by you.
- It can also be used, like a simple image converter software, as it allows to convert images while previewing an image. To convert an image, you need to open it with Nifty Author. After this, use Print Preview option available in Home menu. While previewing an image, you can use File option to convert it in another image format.
- Word counter option is also present in it.
- Supports multiple themes that makes it more interesting to work.
How To Work With Nifty Author Word Processor Software?
Nifty Author is 91.1 MB in size and available completely free for personal and commercial use. Download link is present at the end of this article. After installing it to PC, you can open its main interface where you can find menu options, as available in MS Word. Each menu contains multiple options that you can use. Some of its important menus are as follows:
- Home menu: This menu provides some main options. Such as you can open documents to edit, create new document, select font size & style, can use print preview option and much more.
- Insert menu: This menu would be useful for you whenever you have to insert tables, hyperlinks, picture, text box, and header & footer to documents.
- Page Layout menu: Using this menu, you will be able to change background color of active document, can set margins, and page size accordingly.
- Review menu: It is very helpful menu that is used for spelling check and protecting the document. You should use this menu before saving your document. It allows to set password protection in order to disable editing mode for your document.
However, other people will be able to view and copy your document. So, it doesn’t protect documents fully. Read & write password protection should be available here.
Conclusion:
Nifty Author is one of the useful word processor software. It’s user-friendly interface and good features makes it handy for all users. But, password protection for documents is not enough as only writing mode will be restricted. To make the password protection feature more reliable, it should be able to disable reading mode as well.
Similar software: Judoom, SSuite Office WordGraph, iBlune Office, and AbleWord.
