OpenOffice Substitutes

[Derek Broughton]

Merv Curley wrote:

> On Monday 10 October 2005 22:47, Irena and Richard Jenkins wrote:
>>
>>  I have no complaints about the software that is provided ... but I
>> wonder if adopting KOffice would be a better substitute for
>> OpenOffice (as provided). 
>>
>> On another machine I have tried Abiword ... but I wonder what
>> others think of the current version of KOffice??
> 
> I would say use the smallest, least featured writer that gets the job
> done.  For a simple note,  Kate,  If you need simple WYSIWYG then
> KOffice or whatever.  If you need the import filters of OpenOffice or
> some other feature only it has, then use it, slow as it might be.

I can't comment on the current KOffice, but at my last check it wasn't
nearly good enough for "office" use.  Whereas, OO2 works well enough for me
to use it in an MS Office environment.

> It is more convenient if all your files are standard format and when
> Koffice can write Open Document like OpenOffice2, all will be dandy.

It won't be dandy until MS decides to support Open Document.
-- 
derek