Re: [Sheflug] Re: Office FAQ

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

Hmmm... seems like you're getting Word Processor and integrated Office
Suite a bit confused.

There are several spreadsheets, ranging from teapot (remember viewsheet on
the bbc, anyone?), GNumeric and that KDE one (I forget what its called)

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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On Tue, 23 May 2000, Richard wrote:

> Dear All
> 
> Will Newton wrote:
> 
> > > I used AbiWord recently, TBH I wan't too impressed by the range of features
> > > on offer and frequent screen corruption . It does mostly work though, and
> > > is pretty lightweight.
> > 
> > I don't know exactly what you mean by "recent", but if you tried a version
> > before 0.7.8 I reccomend you look at the latest (0.7.9). It has loads of
> > bug fixes, as well as some fixes for graphical glitches.
> 
> I've got the SuSE 6.4 version of Abiword on my machine and it's a good
> word processor.  Only thing I don't like about it is that there isn't
> a spreadsheet that comes with it.
> 
> I suppose that we'll have to wait until Koffice and Gnome office
> become more mature ?  Koffice is already very good and can be
> downloaded from the KDE site.  But you'll have to do a lot to get it
> to work.  I've tried it and I can see that I'll need most of the KDE2
> stuff and then it might not work on my computer because of the bugs
> that might be in the software.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Richard
> Sheffield UK
> 
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