[Drew]

ppl at school, mostly the teachers, have no idea how to open documents formated by MIcrosoft word or the like, and dont know about any programs to get; and i doubt they would like to shell out $100 for the Office Bundle. SO i need a word proccesor i can get them to so they can quit whining. Is abiword any good?

[WMCoolmon]

It's pretty good, somewhat buggy tho.

OpenOffice is supposedly good too

[Fractux]

I use open office, and I'll vouch for it.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Indeed, open office will read pretty much 95% of the latest MSword formatting etc. and you can edit, convert to PDF and a whole bunch of other rather nifty things.

That and there's no bloody paperclip to make your life one rude interruption after another.
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[Kamikaze]

I use abiword because it's a lighter package (and because Gentoo wants to install OpenOffice in /opt, evil!) and just a word processor (all I need). I've noticed my laptop has some severe issues with the Debian testing abiword package though.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I'm pretty new to Gentoo Kami, what's the beef with OO installing in /opt?
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[Drew]

ok, these are people who barely even know how to use Outlook express; so which one is the easyist to use?

[Kamikaze]

Maeg:
Well, on my setup / is stuck on a relatively small partition.

(output of df -h)
/dev/hda6             274M  252M  8.3M  97%   /
/dev/hdb2             7.4G  7.0G     0       100% /usr

So I prefer things to be stuck in /usr.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Ahhh, got you.

I just went with
64meg hda6 /boot
1gig hda7 /swap
9gig hda8 /root

So everything is in the big partition. Haven't read up enough to know any better at the mo. but it works well on my Thinkpad T21 lappy. Other than a few video playback issues, a problem with sound volume and an APM config problem it's running quite well under both kernel 2.4 and 2.6.

hda1, 2 and 3 are win2k just in case you're wondering.

Drew: Yeah, it's easier than MS office IMHO.
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[übermetroid]

Openoffice works for me...  I just DLed it was very impressed.

[Grey Wolf]

My plan is to use MS Office 2000 Small Business Edition for all eternity.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by Drew
ok, these are people who barely even know how to use Outlook express; so which one is the easyist to use?

If they've used Word they'll have no problem with open office at all. I've not even had to glance at the documentation once yet.

If not well they're probably going to find any word processor equally hard/easy anyway

[varus]

What type of computers do your teachers have, PC or Mac?

I mostly like Open Office, but I've had some trouble with PC -> Mac conversion on it (Open Office documents (created on a PC running it) and saved in Microsoft format will work fine on my home PC, but the Mac version of Microsoft Office freaks out when it tries to open them.  That could be a problem if your school has multiple platforms.

[Fractux]

Well, if you don't have anything too fancy in your document, save in '.rtf', as it pretty portable.

[Drew]

Originally posted by varus
What type of computers do your teachers have, PC or Mac?

I mostly like Open Office, but I've had some trouble with PC -> Mac conversion on it (Open Office documents (created on a PC running it) and saved in Microsoft format will work fine on my home PC, but the Mac version of Microsoft Office freaks out when it tries to open them.  That could be a problem if your school has multiple platforms.

PCs. THe only one that uses a mac is the only one that knows how to use a computer well.

I cant even find how to get abiword to test it. **** that.

[Carl]

errr...notepad?

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by Drew

I cant even find how to get abiword to test it. **** that.

Didn't look very hard eh? http://www.abisource.com/download/

Google is your friend.

[Drew]

Originally posted by Kamikaze


Didn't look very hard eh? http://www.abisource.com/download/

Google is your friend.

Wheres abiwordsetup2.9.exe located smartass. All i can find is the plugins.

[Kamikaze]

http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/abiword/abiword-setup-2.0.8.exe