LTD602 Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 I've always been impressed with OpenOffice, but I recently tried (and switched) to kOffice (newest version) and have been using kWrite quite a bit. I like it, and it has become my #1 wordprocessor. I find the page layout (frame-based) and the menu/toolbar layout simple and attractive. Plus, it is skinned with my KDE icon theme. How do all of you like it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
axel_2078 Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 I haven't yet heard of it. Is it a free program? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted August 23, 2004 Report Share Posted August 23, 2004 I like kwrite but for writing code not docs. Don't you mean kword instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 OO is a more versitile suite, but if you do not need to switch between windows and a good os, then the k office is great. I used it before I used OO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD602 Posted August 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 I meant kWord, actually, lol. Part of the kOffice suite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ac_dispatcher Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 I find myself switching between Kword, OO, and Abiword. Sometimes a *.doc form will open great with one but not so good with the other. But for the sake of it all I use OO as my main Office Suite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 i use kwrite only if i want to write normal letters and the like. it works good for these "simple" tasks. but for my scientific documents, i prefer openoffice. it is more powerful and in a recent test in a well respected computermagazine, it beat all other free and commercial word-processing programs. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 If all I want is to write something simple and then print it directly to a printer, then KWord is fine. But if I want to send a document to someone who only have MS Office (via e-mail or something) then OpenOffice is my main tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTD602 Posted August 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 Interesting responses here . . . . I find that kWord handles large documents beautifully. I'm all for improving kOffice in general, It's a very promising suite, but it's taking quite a while to "grow up." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nocturnes Posted August 24, 2004 Report Share Posted August 24, 2004 I have not used KWord a lot. I do all of my office style work in the gnome suite (Abiword, Gnumeric etc). I did use OO for a while but found it very slow to use (mostly because I only have 128Mb RAM on this machine). Abiword opens quickly, runs smoothly and has all the features I want. Handles .doc like native as well which I appreciate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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