Miles Fidelman wrote:
Thanks for getting us out of that thread. Yes, that's what we're dealing with here. She use's Word at the office. I suppose she could send an RTF home, but that's not really a good solution. She also isn't allowed to install software on her machine for security reasons, so getting her to use other software at work is impossible. I can't even send her certain types of attachments because they get filtered out by her mail server.Ron Johnson wrote:Just to add another voice. Some of us have to exchange documents with people who use Word - particularly in work settings, and features like change tracking, integrating data from excel, and such are important. Yes, you can do a lot of that in Open Office, but it never works that cleanly. (I just left a company where half the company uses Word, the other half uses OO, and pulling documents together always turns out to be incredibly painful).What do you need in a WP? Academic features (formal citations, embedded graphics, TOC, index, etc), movie/theater formating, something I haven't thought of?
Personally, I don't need all of the features in either Word or Writer, and as was suggested earlier, I might do with just a good text editor. From what I have seen of Kword, it looks good. I've spent so much time lately studying about GNU/Linux that I have had no time to write anything more than e-mails, and that brings us back to the IceDove/Thunderbird issue that started this.
What it boils down to is that I use GNU/Linux all the time. She uses it when she wants to surf, but if she needs to do work, she reboots into Windows and uses Word and Excel (in Dutch). I can't handle the Dutch version of either one of them, so I was using OO on the Windows side long before I made the full time switch to Linux.
We can live with this situation with the word processing, but the e-mail is frustrating. I wonder if anyone can port IceDove to use QT instead of GTK. The dialog boxes annoy me. I managed to get IceWeasel to use the KDE File Dialog, but I don't know how to get IceDove to do it. I also don't like how it forgets which format to show the messages in.
We all have pet peeves. Joe