Hello Paul and Hans! On 12/13/05, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone that can download and install a 'word processor' could probably > handle downloading and installing OOo.
Paul, I think he means the shear complexity of the suite, not installing it, jsut the huge number of options, feautres, programs, and buttons. On 12/14/05, Hans Borchardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A word processor as a stand-alone product which handles .doc files, has a > spelling checker and is free of the aggravating automation of MS Word would > we very welcome by many and could serve as the "foot in the door" for other > OO products. Could such a product be carved off? Hans, such a program exists. Paul is right is saying that Open Office could be installed in such a way where only the word processing part (Writer) is available. However, it still has a lot of features that beginners might get confused with. A good smarter, faster, easier starting point is called AbiWord. AbiWord is free, open source, downloadable, legally copyable (is copyable a word?), and cross-platform (it runs on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and more). You can grab a copy here: http://www.abiword.com/ AbiWord opens, edits, creates, and saves MS Word documents. It can also do those things to documents created by Open Office in the native OpenDocument format, or WordPerfect files as well. It does spell check, word count, indents, fonts, bold, margins, pictures, all the standard word processing stuff, but it doesn't have all the high-end, potentially confusing features that a full suite does. Hope that helps! -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.net/ Because everyone loves free software!
