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| "it was okay" I could use the program easily but when you are on it for a long time it will randomly shut down the program which is not good if you have not saved. And doesn't help when you are on a time limit. Also you cannot save as a .doc or .wps file which is inconvenient when you have to upload a document from a different location and program
by: student
| 3 | 2008-06-15 |
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| " We begin to look with suspicions and certain contempt to MS Office Word 2003 and - oh my Sweet Lord" As an "Open Source" project, AbiWord begins to arrive to the maturity, and as alternative in front of the processors of words that we know, the doubts about their functions and productivity go already vanishing. It begins to like us and, frankly, from the version 2.5.2, we have used it with so much frequency that, the truth, we begin to look with suspicions and certain contempt to MS Office Word 2003 and OpenOffice 2.4, too.
AbiWord 2.6.3 confirms, for example, that the .odt - more compressed than that of OpenOffice - it is now the best alternative before the classic compressed .rtf.
The new design of the logo, the splash and the icons of the .exe ones are among the most excellent characteristics in AbiWord.
Equally, if you prefer it, now it can install it in the pendrive like a portable one.
Something more, it has substantially improved the speed of opening of files and the plugin impexp that it allows it to try efficiently with such formats as pdb, doc/dot, wp/wpd, .602, OpenXML, etc.
It is still pending its great problem: To be on the edge of an infarction, rallentando to the system and excessively committing the RAM and to the processor, when it has to open bigger files to the 250 KB. We have trust that this will be overcome when the version 3 - in which good people of AbiSource are already working - arrives us.
by: Dr. Nemo
| 4 | 2008-05-13 |
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| "Excellent!" Works under XP with win 98 word files, something Microsoft XP fails miserably on.
Like all the other bloatware produced by MS usually does.
Have noticed opensource seems to work when MS fails.... Are opensource authors smarter? Or is MS trying to build their empire on greed and control?
by: Junk Buster
| 5 | 2008-05-05 |
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| "good for home use" good for home use and lets face it, its free. microsoft is bloated compared to this and its a good alternative.
by: hoppy
| 4 | 2008-04-24 |
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| "very slow" I found that it had most features i needed, but when working on a 44 page document was slow
by: cheap
| 3 | 2008-04-16 |
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| "Great!" This software is really great and fulfills all your needs for everyday letter writing! Good alternative to bloated office packages.
by: Wohlduftende Muschi
| 5 | 2008-04-03 |
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| "Great program!" i loved this program! does not take alot of diskspace and is quite stable! recomended to anybody wishing a word processor and does not want all the microsoft mumbo-jumbo.
by: Neogs
| 5 | 2008-02-02 |
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| "works great" I have Office 2003 that takes a lot of disc space for programs I never use, access, exell, etc. I tried abiword and love it!! I does everything I need!
by: roscoe
| 5 | 2007-08-28 |
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| "usefull" I use openoffice also, but this software is much faster en lighter!
When I have to change more documents this is my choice
by: joeres
| 5 | 2007-08-21 |
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| "Ouch!" The runt of the litter...but it'll work in a pinch.
by: Glenn
| 3 | 2007-08-16 |
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| "Does the job" I like OpenOffice better though.
by: Deluge
| 5 | 2007-05-02 |
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| "Horrible" Crashes constantly. Not user friendly. I am convinced this program was designed to punish people who are too cheap to pay for software.
by: BAV
| 1 | 2007-04-18 |
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| "Awsome" thank you for get this free software
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| 5 | 2007-02-24 |
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| "Excillent" A very good lightweight word processor.
by: Surfer
| 5 | 2007-02-07 |
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| "Not that good!" The newer versions are a huge improvement over older ones, but it still doesn't display docs every time. Then again, there's a lot of doc versions too! And they cause probs in many apps. Lack of a preview in a WP is totaly unthinkable to me. What are these guys thinking of?
by: alberteinstein
| 3 | 2006-08-08 |
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