OpenOffice alternative?

[CJ Kelley]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:13 AM, R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> 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
>
well, i believe you can use winedoors to install windows fonts (arial for
example). but if you want some alternatives here are some off the top of my
head:
-ABI Word
-Koffice
-M$ office (via wine)
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