On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:54, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 12:00, you wrote: > > Open office might be abit to slow but what about abiword and Gnumeric? > 1) Too big a departure from what they are used to. New programs give folks who > are not computer oriented the fundamental shudders.
AbiWord worked for my Mum. They shouldn't have any trouble! > 2) Interoperatability. afaik OOo is the only OSS package which is able to make > a half decent crack at interfacing with MS Office on another machine in the > office. AbiWord does well. Sure, no fancy editing features like paragraph numbering and tables, but the rest of it is damned fine. RTF is particularly good between MS Word and AbiWord. Vik :v)
