I have found it unreliable. I only use it for one-time, low-importance
stuff. For anything important, I rely on either Lyx or StarOffice. With
Kword, I have run into problems with fonts, stability (random crashes), or
unusability. The unusability part wasn't actually kword, but kspread. There
are no manual/howto pages (in one of the latest beta variants I tried) so I
couldn't find any way to make kspread work the way the spreadsheet works in
Excel or Staroffice.
I entered data into two columns with the intent of plotting the data in a
histogram. A very simple task in Staroffice or Excell. Virtually impossible
(so it seems) in kspread. Selecting the cell data and then selecting the
chart icon, and then selecting bar chart does bring up a series of windows
for setting up your chart BUT it has absolutely nothing to do with the data
you just entered, has nothing to do with the data you just highlighted.
Instead, it calls for you to enter the data separately again into a special
graphic spreadsheet - but doing so doesn't do anything useful. The bar chart
doesn't match with the data you entered.
Basically, koffice is very much not ready for general, full-time use. I
would suggest using the way I do...for the occassional one-time letter and
low-importance stuff, using the fully functional Staroffice for real
important stuff (because you can also very nicely export to Word, Excel, etc
which is still not really workable in koffice). I download new koffice
versions as they come available to test but so far, I would never suggest
someone actually rely upon it for their real work.
On Monday 25 June 2001 11:29 am, you wrote:
> I was a star office user for about 2 years and it never did me wrong
> (albeit slowly). I started using koffice around the same time kde2 betas
> were out (october of last year ish) and the whole suite has proved very
> reliable. I did have issuse when embedding from one app to another, but
> that was with a much older version. Personally, i would highly reccomend
> using it, although i couldnt seem to find a word count in kword, everything
> else is top notch.
>
> Tom
>
> > Just taking an informal survey as I consider switching from StarOffice to
> > Kword (the current Kword 1.0 version in LM 8.0, NOT the latest Koffice
> > 1.1 beta). What's your verdict? Is Kword 1.0 reliable? Solid?
> > feature-rich? Are you happy with it? If so, did you switch from
> > StarOffice or another word processing to Kword? I personally like it a
> > great deal but have had little experience with it. So, before I make any
> > commitment to it, it would be good to know what you folks think of it.
