.BZABW File Extension

AbiWord is an open-source word processor developed by members of the AbiSource community. AbiSource only actively develops the Linux version (since version 3) of AbiWord, while older versions of the application are also available for Windows and macOS.

Since ABW documents store information in the XML standard, they may grow large. To reduce the size of an ABW document, AbiWord allows you to compress it with Bzip2 compression.

NOTE: Various versions of AbiWord may also compress ABW files with gzip compression, resulting in a .ZABW file.

You can open BZABW files with AbiSource AbiWord (multiplatform). To open a ZABW file, select File → Open.

AbiWord can convert BZABW files to various file types, including the following formats:

• .DOCX - Microsoft Word Document
• .DOC - Microsoft Word Document (Legacy)
• .ODT - OpenDocument Text Document
• .RTF - Rich Text Format
• .TXT - Plain Text
• .HTML - HTML Webpage
• .MHTML - MIME HTML Archive
• .ABW - AbiWord Document
• .AWT - AbiWord Template