Michael Holt wrote:
> Abiword does a good job of importing MS word, but it's still in it's infancy. I've
> just bought Corel Office 2000 deluxe, and I'm very pleased with it; it imports and
> exports MS 97 / 2000 files as well as most other popular formats.
SO isn't bad, for Linux anyway. Doesn't have the fancier MS Word kind of gui, but can
get the job done, and imports as well as exports MS Word format(s).
Corel WP is based on the older WP and although I haven't checked it out yet, it's
probably a fairly fine app, and there's a free version for at least checking out the
suite, I believe.
WP was the strongest competitor with MS Word for a fair number of years, and always
remained useable. Corel merely took over WP and converted it to Java, although, don't
know if it's still in Java or not.
SO is supposedly buggy on MS platforms, but based on the review I read, these problems
shouldn't occur on Unix or Linux.
There's also Applixware for an office suite, but haven't a clue if it imports/exports
MS Word format(s).
I examined SO last december, MS version, and although I didn't try everything, and the
gui aspect wasn't quite as "refined" as MS Word, I wouldn't hestitate to use this
office suite. I don't care about fancy looking gui's as much as merely the
functionality.
In this respect, I wouldn't refrain from doing work with TeX and LaTeX, as well as
other associated tools or add-ons. TeX produces very nice output.
Otherwise, what's the big mistake you believe to have made? You left that aspect of
your commentary hanging in "guess land", and I haven't a clue what you're referring
to.
mike
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> Mike
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> Emanuele La Rosa wrote:
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> > Maybe you are right but it crashes too many times and it has some bugs.
> > I decided to write my thesis with Staroffice and sill I'm doing it, but now I'm
> > quite sure that I've made a big mistake
> >
> > >Star Office can open and save Word documents without problems. Depending
> > >(maybe) on the version of Word and Star Office. Note: Star Office is free (Not
> > >Open Source, but you don't have to pay for it) and in my opinion as good as MS
> > >Office.
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