On Friday 21 September 2001 16:42, Dr . Sharukh K . R . Pavri . wrote:
> But with my old 8 gb hdd, I had C: & D: both of 2gb each and the rest had
> rh5.2 then 6.1 then 6.2 and now 7.1. No problems here. All this runs on a
> p120 w/ 48 mb ram.
I am out on that.
> I am using abiword b'cos it can open all (or atleast most as I am slowly
> finding out to my dismay) my msword files. It usually smoothly opens most
> word 2000 docs but the formatting sometimes is ugly, it disregards tabs and
> all my columns on some pages appear in one single block of text. Sometimes
> it complains that a word doc is a bogus file and refuses to open it. I
> have to open the file in win and copy paste the text into a new .doc file
> and that opens in abiword.
KWord now a days offers an option to open .doc files. I have checked that. It
gressfully deletes all the formatting in .doc files. Font sizes are retained
but style information like header1 etc. is lost. Indentation is pathetic but
even staroffice chokes on that. Bullets are the first to surrender
indentation. Don't know about tables. But the file is overall readable and
contains enough hints to restore formatting.
The reason I prefer kword is it's a part of complete office suite. Embedding
kspread object and kpresenter etc. are really good stuff and I know, it
works. Besides the concept of frames the it puts on table, is absolutely
fabulous.
I use KDE2.2/KOffice1.1, compiled from sources. Mandrake8.1 is expected next
week. Should be a good choice to go. I am going for it, definitely....
Shridhar
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