Word Processor/office suite

[Feztaa]

Hey all, I'm looking for a good word processor. What do y'all use?

[dalee]

For just word processing I use AbbyWord alot. Fast and easy. If I want a "full" office suite I use K-Office. Not quite as fast as Abby, but a heck of a lot better than StarOffice or OpenOffice for me.

dalee

[Feztaa]

I tried Koffice once... I tried to make a table, then I saved the document and when I opened it again, the table was all gone and stuff. Does it still have that problem?

I might look into Abiword.

[TaeShadow]

VIM+LaTeX

If that's too intimidating for you, check out TeXMacs.

And, if even that's too intimidating, then I would go with AbiWord.

don't count out OpenOffice. sure it's huge and bloated but it's very good. and if you have to be able to read/write Word documents then OpenOffice is the best

[boblucci]

staroffice ;D

i dont know why so many people hate this program, it works very well for me.

[cga]

Yes. Learn to use LaTeX and you be able to create top quality documents with ease.

It is no harder to learn than html.

If you must have a WYSIWYG thing, then Star Office is rock solid and feature rich. It imports and exports Word and Excel files with ease.

VIM+LaTeX

If that's too intimidating for you, check out TeXMacs.

And, if even that's too intimidating, then I would go with AbiWord.

[Feztaa]

Heh, I've been meaning to look into LaTeX, but I forgot about it recently... I should look into it again. Could be a worthwhile thing to learn over christmas... Anybody have any good resources for it?

Now I just need to get my printer working...

[TaeShadow]

Heh, I've been meaning to look into LaTeX, but I forgot about it recently... I should look into it again. Could be a worthwhile thing to learn over christmas... Anybody have any good resources for it?

Yes. *Search for "The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX." *It will tell you everything you need to know. *Don't worry, it's not that difficult. *Once you're used to it, it is MUCH easier than Microsoft Word, or any other conventional word processor. *You spend less time worrying about the quirks of your software, and more time worrying about the content of your document.

[Feztaa]

Sounds good, I'll look for that when I get home.

Thanks