rumor has it that LarryT wrote: > Dittos to Lee's suggestion to use OpenOffice. The word processor > will do what you want. I learned about Open Office when I had a > problem with my MS Office Suite 97 and MS said they no longer > support that version - they suggested I upgrade to a newer version > - at more than $100 IIRC. No thanks, says I. > > So far, I have used the word processor - called AbiWord 2.4 - and it > works much like Word.
AbiWord is _not_ OpenOffice. It is "competition" to OpenOffice. > They > also have a database, a program similar to Powerpoint, Excel, etc. OpenOffice is a full suite with word proccessor, paint, spreadsheet, draw, and presentation applications. It is available for a number of different platforms and does a rather good job of converting to/from MS Office file formats. > It doesn;t have a deep Help program so all Help is through User > Groups. OpenOffice2 does have a rather good help section. -- Philip, with OpenOffice on three platforms
