what is an .abw file
ABW files are documents crated by AbiWord, a free word processing software. ABW files can contain formated text, images, tables and more advanced formating. DOC is a word processing file created by Microsoft. This files format turns a plain-text format into a formatted document. It supports almost all the Operating Systems. It can contain large amount of text, data, charts, table, image etc. It can contain rich text format (RTF) and HTML texts also.
A file with the ABW file extension is an AbiWord Document file. Similar to Microsoft Word's DOCX format, the AbiWord word processor software uses the XML-based ABW file format to store rich text, images, tables, etc. AbiWord ABW files can be opened with the free AbiWord word processing program.