I tried all three Open Source suites a year or so ago. Kingsoft, being from China, has the charming option to set how you want your text to read: left-to-right, right-to-left, or top-to-bottom!
All three work well and are strong enough for industrial use. You will definitely run into differences in the rendering of complex documents. But Microsoft, with their love for proprietary complexity, is the main problem here, and you can avoid most of that by generating your documents in Kingsoft (or whatever) and saving them as .doc files. I ended up staying with OpenOffice, but the others work fine. NOTE: All of these word processors have an option to set the default file format. Set it to .doc and you'll have no problems sending to others. Dan Covill San Diego > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 17:15:15 +0000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [NF] Free office suite > > MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > > On Tue, February 25, 2014 9:30 am, Peter Cushing wrote: > > > >> Following on from the discussion of office suites, we have just started > >> to test this suite with a few users. > >> > >> http://www.kingsoftstore.co.uk/kingsoft-office-freeware.html > >> <snip> > >> > > What's wrong with using LibreOffice or OpenOffice? > > > > > Nothing wrong with it but this one is definitely smaller for the install > and this one definitely looks more like office. > You have file / print preview instead of page preview also also > file/page setup instead of format /page. Not really looked at anything > complicated but looks to be good for home use where your parents just > want to do the odd document and don't need all the bells and whistles. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
