On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Jonas Norlander <<a href="mailto:jonorland@gmail.com">jonorland@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 2008/6/12 Scott <<a href="mailto:slewin@bmts.com">slewin@bmts.com</a>>: > Hi, <div class="Ih2E3d">> > as a home user I use a spread sheet and word processor on occasion, but > when I use them I only need the most common features. Using open office > feels like using a Ferrari when all I need is a Echo. Does anybody know > of a good, lighter, spreadsheet and word processor program out there. > </div>> -- > Your friend, > Scott > Hi! You also got IBM Lotus Symphony. Perhaps it's to overkill and bloated for you but it looks OK. It's available in many language and for both Windows and Linux. You can find it at <a href="http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa" target="_blank">http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.jspa</a> / Jonas </blockquote></div> And stuff like Celtx for play/scrip/movie writing or you could, if you just write text check into Vim, Emac, Kate or maybe Scribus if you are writing and want to send PDFs. I think in many ways PDF is a good way around these problems. -- Douglas E Knapp <a href="http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page">http://sf-journey-creations.wikispot.org/Front_Page</a>