Comments on: Friday Finds for 04/25/2008: Other Office Alternatives http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/ Personal commentary on technology with a sprinkling of tech-tips and how-to articles Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:36:14 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bret http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3753 Bret Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:19:43 +0000 http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/#comment-3753 I'm going by what the AbiWord FAQs clearly state in regards to whether they can read and write Word documents (see below): "Presently, can open most Microsoft Word documents well. For further information and a few "quid pro quos", please continue reading. Caveat However, if the document has complicated tables, text boxes, embedded spreadsheets, and so forth, then it might not work as expected. Developing good MS Word filters is a very difficult process, so please bear with us as we work on getting Word documents to open correctly. If you have a Word document which fails to load, please open a Bug and include the document so we can improve the importer. " I’m going by what the AbiWord FAQs clearly state in regards to whether they can read and write Word documents (see below):

“Presently, can open most Microsoft Word documents well. For further information and a few “quid pro quos”, please continue reading.
Caveat

However, if the document has complicated tables, text boxes, embedded spreadsheets, and so forth, then it might not work as expected. Developing good MS Word filters is a very difficult process, so please bear with us as we work on getting Word documents to open correctly. If you have a Word document which fails to load, please open a Bug and include the document so we can improve the importer. “

]]> By: Ryan Pavlik http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3750 Ryan Pavlik Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:38:47 +0000 http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/#comment-3750 I'm not sure what you mean by "however, the proprietary .doc format has limited support" - AbiWord can import nearly every doc file, and if you've found one that has issues, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.abisource.com and attach the file so that we can fix it. Please let me know if you have any issues, or better yet, file a report. Thanks! Ryan AbiWord dev, Windows maintainer I’m not sure what you mean by “however, the proprietary .doc format has limited support” – AbiWord can import nearly every doc file, and if you’ve found one that has issues, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.abisource.com and attach the file so that we can fix it. Please let me know if you have any issues, or better yet, file a report.

Thanks!

Ryan
AbiWord dev, Windows maintainer

]]> By: Bret http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3747 Bret Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:23:32 +0000 http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/#comment-3747 Yeah, the online options are making significant headway in this area of computer; however, call me "old school" but I still prefer locally installed applications. :-) Thanks for the comment Yeah, the online options are making significant headway in this area of computer; however, call me “old school” but I still prefer locally installed applications. :-)

Thanks for the comment

]]> By: LeAnn Rimes http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/comment-page-1/#comment-3743 LeAnn Rimes Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:35:13 +0000 http://www.techtraction.com/2008/04/25/friday-finds-04252008-other-office-alternatives/#comment-3743 Now there are many online version of office apps. Checkout Google Docs and Zoho.com Now there are many online version of office apps. Checkout Google Docs and Zoho.com

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