Rex,
Do you find that you have to fiddle with the display/font selection to
get abiword to display correctly on screen?
Bill Holt
On Jan 24, 2006, at 8:21 AM, Rex Baldazo wrote:
> 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: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
> [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
>>
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