StarOffice 5.2 is a great piece of work. Its problems are bloat and the
integrated desktop (although I've grown used to it over time). Other than that
it is incredibly solid - I've written large documents on it over the period of a
week (i.e. open the entire time) and it never crashed on me.
OpenOffice.org (that's its official name, since somebody has already copyrighted
"OpenOffice") is shaping up to be a fine successor to StarOffice 5.2. I've
always preferred StarOffice to MS Word, and OpenOffice.org is even better.
Release 638C has some stability problems, but otherwise it is almost complete.
Most importantly, it is actually usable. While it is bloated, I assume that this
is because it is still in development.
On Sun, 28 Oct 2001 09:16:58 -0600, Joseph Braddock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Star Office can also save in Word's native format. SO5.2 is pretty good.
> SO6.0 and OpenOffice are very good. Any of the them will also let you
> open/create/save Excel files, too.
>
> Joe
>
> On Sunday 28 October 2001 09:01 am, you wrote:
> > Admin wrote:
> > > Looking for a word processor to use under lm8.0, which needs to be able
> > > to import word documents as well as save in ms word format(if possible).
> > > Any suggestions? Thanks...
> >
> > AbiWord is a good word processor, it will be a great word processor. It
> > is not finished yet. Currently, among other things:
> >
> > It can:
> > -Open many Word files
> > -Save files as .rtf which Word can read
> > -Most "standard" word processing functions
> > -Use styles
> > -Do numbered and bulleted lists (with some bugs or enhancements
> > required, last time I looked)
> >
> > It cannot (yet):
> > -Do tables
> > -Do footnotes
> > -Do outlining
> >
> > I've tried StarOffice but haven't really used it. It seems to include
> > more features than AbiWord at this time. I think it can do tables, I
> > know it can do outlining (with a different UI than Word).
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Randy Kramer
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