AbiWord and Gnumeric are very very much lighter but possibly lack some of the functionality you might be looking for
Some old links here ... http://www.abisource.com/~fjf/ http://mac.brothersoft.com/abiword.html http://abiword.en.softonic.com/mac http://gnumeric.darwinports.com/ http://wareseeker.com/free-gnumeric-mac/ I think they are about 20Mb each. Alternatively, why not try google-docs or some other Office Suite that runs on the cloud so they do not need to be installed on your machine? They do require a working internet connection of course. The advantage of LibreOffice or OpenOffice is the fairly advanced features and some conveniences such as being able to set defaults to save as MS formats. I am amazed that certain parts of LibreOffice apparently can't be un-installed without affecting the rest as i am fairly sure i can do that in linux. Good luck and regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Scott Jones <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 26 January, 2011 14:22:18 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Is partial installation possible (Mac)? Disk is cheap. Either upgrade your hard drive or install a second hard drive. On 1/26/2011 7:28 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 26/01/11 12:40, Zangdook a écrit : Hi, > I've just installed LibreOffice on a Mac; I'm a little surprised that I was > not given a choice of which parts I want to install. I have limited disc > space and only require word processor and spreadsheet. Is it possible to do > a partial install, or do I have to take all or nothing? Looking around I > can't see any option of uninstalling some elements and retaining others. No, not that I know of, I am afraid it is all or nothing. Bear in mind that even if you did just want the word processor and spreadsheet functionality, you would not be able to use any of the database functionality that is accessible from these modules, when the Base module is also installed. If you want just a spreadsheet and just a word processor, you would be better off looking at other solutions, at least on the Mac. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
