Phil Jones wrote:
> "Abiword is a free lightweight word processing program under development
> which can read and write Microsoft� Word documents.  It is suitable for
> typing papers, letters, reports, memos, and so forth."
> 
> I think the key word is "lightweight", which means hopefully everyone will 
>understand it has
> the basic features.
> 
> The other key words are "read and write MS Word documents". With luck this should 
>mean that
> everyone will expect it to normally store documents in its own native format, and 
>also be able
> to import / export documents in the MS Word format.

Good, except writing Microsoft Word documents might be misleading as we
can write .rtf, but not native .doc.

Randy Kramer

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