OpenOffice alternative?

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

R Kimber wrote:
> What alternatives to OpenOffice do people use for a word processor?
>
> I'm struggling with OO.  Since the 8.04 upgrade arial won't appear as
> arial and saved arial documents come up with a bizarre-looking font
> called Albany, which isn't anything like Albany on the font websites
> and which doesn't seem to exist on my machine under that name.
>
> Also, OO wouldn't correctly print a saved letter that had an anchored
> table imported from the OO spreadsheet.  Only the first cell of the
> table was printed.
>
> I tried re-installing, and that did fix other issues that I had.
>
> So, I'm looking for a word processor that "just works" [TM]   :-)
> What do people use?
>
> - Richard
>   

AbiWord and KWord for any RTF documents at home.

However, I use OpenOffice.org at work all the time, with msttcorefonts
installed.  And I do so in a total Microsoft shop.  That is, I'm always
sending/receiving MS Word-formatted docs to all my MS Office
XP/2003-using colleagues, and they don't know the difference.  It works
great.

Yes, I use the OpenOffice.org that comes with the distro, and I've been
doing so since Hoary Hedgehog.  The only time I've ever had a document
look "ugly" when using Arial or Times New Roman is when I *thought* I
had msttcorefonts installed...but didn't.  You might want to verify that
one more time.

--TP