If all you're after is the word processor feature, NeoOffice may be a bit of overkill. For opening just basic MS Word documents, I find AbiWord more than capable:
http://www.abiword.com/download/ Plus it's open source so it's free, and best of all cross-platform so you can have the same software running on your PC and Mac. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry Yeager Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 8:49 PM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: MS Word lite? NeoOffice works pretty well for those times when 'ya just gotten work with the dark side'. (It is free) http://www.neooffice.org/ Jerry On Jan 23, 2006, at 5:14 PM, Stuart Ungar wrote: > I thought someone on here may know the answer to this one. I need MS > Word once in a while, pretty rarely, but still need it at times. Is > there a lite version of MS WOrd? All I can see on the MS site is > Office and I don't want to fork up a few hundred dollars to Mr. Gates. > > BTW, just bought a wireless mouse today. cool! > > -stuart > > > > > Louisville At-home Dads (L.A.D.s) > Bringing together stay-at-home fathers, their children and their > families. > 502-426-5376 > LouisvilleLADS-owner at yahoogroups.com > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be January > | 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> ----------------------------------- Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. In the mean time this next one will have to do: ==================== 'W' Is for wiretap. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
