Koffice is certainly not very good in handling M$word documents, though there is provision for handling word files. So if your primary concern is to keep compatibility with .doc format then stick to OpenOffice.org. But if you can live with the native format of kword for saving documents then it is quite good and is low on resources.
Since the thread started with the heading "New office suite.." I thought people might live with new file formats also Arijit ----- Original Message ----- From: Mandar Mitra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:46:52 +0530 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] new office suite for linux > Dipankar Das wrote: > > Slackware 9 and Koffice is a pretty good combination. > > And really fast. > > Very few works are there that cannot be done with Koffice. > > > How good is Koffice at handling MS Word documents? > > I use OpenOffice only because its input filters for Word and > PPT files are very good. But it is pretty heavy-weight and that > certainly shows on my home machine (P-II). > > I found Abiword entirely unsatisfactory on this count. I don't > use KDE, but if Koffice is really that good and fast, I could > install kdebase/kdelibs/whatever just for koffice. > > What do you think? > > Thanks for any feedback. > Mandar. > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- _______________________________________________ Find what you are looking for with the Lycos Yellow Pages http://r.lycos.com/r/yp_emailfooter/http://yellowpages.lycos.com/default.asp?SRC=lycos10 -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
