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You don't need an Office Suite for textual stuff. You could have tried any of the editors, or even Kile (front end for Latex/Tex).
I use OO too, but actually I find myself using Latex more and more. I like doing 2 column newsletter type things and it is so straight forward to create a .ps, and a .pdf file nicely formatted and ready for printing. I even have my cv done in Latex and .pdf/.ps format, complete with photo.
If your documents are collaborative with others not using Linux, then the story is OO all the way or maybe abiword, but I ain't tried that yet.
Myself I prefer to think about the words and let the program to the formatting. I realized how I hate word-processing, when I started with Linux months and months ago.
Last edited by buttersoft; 02-27-2004 at 01:52 PM.
Myself, I probably use OpenOffice the most, but I also use the KOffice apps and Abiword and Gnumeric as well, depending on what I'm doing.
Some MS Office files work better in one app over another, depending on the formatting. So a lot of times if I don't like how an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document looks in one, I'll open it in another and see if it's any better.
"Efficiency through laziness" is my favorite motto. The less crap I have to do to make things work, the better.
If you just want word processing with good Word compatibility have a look at Textmaker. It costs money but you can try it for free and it is small, simple and lightning fast compared to OO. It is also frames based so good for DTP. If you don't need the latter then Abiword is even smaller and free and very nice.
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