KOffice vs. OpenOffice

[claydoh]

On Sunday 28 September 2008 5:52:06 pm Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> I've read in Kubuntu's website about the new koffice beta released. Ever
> since i started using linux, i've been using openoffice, and i think
> it's a very nice suite, definitely better than Microsoft Office. but
> what about this koffice? i've never seen it or tried it yet. anything
> special about it? any more functionality? i guess it would behave better
> in KDE since it's designed using qt (if i'm not mistaken), so it would
> look and behave better than gtk apps, but anything fancy about it?
>
> Thanks in advance
Koffice is nice  enough, and much 'lighter' but it isn't quite as powerful as 
OOo, My wife likes the simplicity (of appearance) of Kword as compared to OOo 
or MS word,  for example. I don't think  the MS office compatibility isn't as 
strong as it is in OOo, but that may be improved in version 2.  I am 
downloading the new beta for KOffice 2 as I type to check it out. I don't have 
many MS docs around, but I do have a couple Excel spreadsheets that I 
converted to opendocument format and still have to originals somewhere so I 
can compare.

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Clay Weber