Abiword is the default word processor in many versions on Puppy. It is part of the GnomeOffice GNOME Office suite of programs. Not to be be confused with simpler TextEditors text editors like Geany Geany.

LibreOffice may be more suitable if you require an advanced office suite.

AbiWord is capable of many wordprocessing tasks. It can open most industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice, MS Word, WordPerfect, Rich Text Format and HTML. It can save most formats, but can not save in MS Word binary .doc format.

AbiWord is included in most Puppies.

Puppy Menu > Document > Document/Publishing > AbiWord

or

Clicking on Write on the Desktop (when set as default word processor)

Where not included or to update use an appropriate package:

abiword-portable-3.0.0.tar.gz version for Precise and Slacko, packaged by Shinobar.

The library libaspell has been over looked in some Puppy versions. This can be corrected this installing:

libaspell15-0.60.6-10.pet package (thread), more info in the discussion (thread).

Abiword is okay for small documents but becomes unreliable after documents get bigger than about fifteen pages.

It may also problems exporting PDFs

UsingAbiWord Using Abiword - more information about the program.

UsingAbiWordWithPuppy1 Using Abiword with Puppy 1

LibreOffice - suite by the Document Foundation

OpenOffice - suite by Apache

Ooo4Kids - cut down suite for children

OooLight - lightweight word-processor

Official page

Offical plug-in page.

AbiWord Help

Abiword and missing libaspell.so.15

AbiWord 2.8.2

AbiWord 2.8.6 from Debian for Puppy 5

French help for AbiWord 2.8.6

http://www.t2-project.org/packages/abiword.html