If you're trying to replace Office 2000, AbiWord is a great replacement, and uses fewer resources than OpenOffice. OpenOffice is somewhere in between Office 2000 and 2003, but I find that the templates are sorely lacking in any of the alternatives. If you're trying to find something to work with the Office 2007 .docx files, good luck. Even with Microsoft's "OpenXML" formats, there's little support for it anywhere else. Your best bet with them is to use an online converter like www.zamzar.com or use the offline ODF converter found at http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
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I led you astray. . . that ODF converter is a plugin for Office 2007 to save as ODT files. . . however, Novell has published a plugin for OpenOffice that is supposed to open .docx files and let you save as .docx.
You can get the RPM for that at http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~
OpenOffice.org
You might try OpenOffice.org's Word Processor.
It handles Word documents, looks basically the same and has virtually all the features of MS Word. It runs on GNU/Linux, Mac OSX and Microsoft Windows
Go to OpenOffice.org for more info and/or to download it.
Abi word is another good one
Abi word is another good one for word.
[Edit: Abiword's home]
Many more
OpenOffice.org is probably the best. But it is an Office Suite. A simpler alternative to Word is AbiWord, a part of GnomeOffice.
Check these sites for more:
Wikipedia - List of word processors
OSAlt - Word
Open Source Software for Windows
You can get other OpenSource software at these links.
DOn't forget Kword if you
DOn't forget Kword if you have KDE installed. It's another option
KWord...
KWord doesn't handle .docs like AbiWord and OpenOffice.org do. I personally like OpenOffice.org, but that's up to you.
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Andrew Min
Depending on the version needed. . .
If you're trying to replace Office 2000, AbiWord is a great replacement, and uses fewer resources than OpenOffice. OpenOffice is somewhere in between Office 2000 and 2003, but I find that the templates are sorely lacking in any of the alternatives. If you're trying to find something to work with the Office 2007 .docx files, good luck. Even with Microsoft's "OpenXML" formats, there's little support for it anywhere else. Your best bet with them is to use an online converter like www.zamzar.com or use the offline ODF converter found at http://odf-converter.sourceforge.net/
Please bookmark this thread and let us know how it turns out.
Actually. . .
I led you astray. . . that ODF converter is a plugin for Office 2007 to save as ODT files. . . however, Novell has published a plugin for OpenOffice that is supposed to open .docx files and let you save as .docx.
You can get the RPM for that at http://download.novell.com/SummaryFree.jsp?buildid=ESrjfdE4U58~