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Lets AI agents edit Word files with tracked changes and nothing else touched
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Track changes, styles and mail merge are the reasons teams never leave Word, and this is a free native app that keeps them rather than quietly dropping them.
WordCraft is the ArtCraft team's word processor, written in Rust and shipped at v0.5.0 for macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and the browser. Mac builds are signed; Linux arrives as AppImage, Flatpak, deb and rpm. It reads and writes .docx, handles odt, rtf, html and markdown, and exports PDF. The team counts about 88 per cent of Word's ribbon present, then publishes its own lower estimate of readiness: roughly 60 per cent of the way to replacing Word. The gaps are listed, not buried — charts and SmartArt do not survive a round trip, printing is not native, and it calls itself alpha.
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