Yes, especially with earlier versions. The current release seems better, but I haven't used it that much on the Mac since installing the new version.
--- Rex. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Holt Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:49 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: MS Word lite? 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 >> >> >> >> >> 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> > | 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> | 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>
