Reply #4: OK, I'm sure that does work, but

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like I said, all of the posters on the forum recommend that you don't do it that way.

There are many word processors available for Linux. When comparing them to Word, it depends upon the individual. While it's an excellent word processor (and I won't go into the closed source, proprietary format bit) it just tries to do too much at once, in my opinion. It can't make up it's mind whether it wants to be a word processor, DTP program, calculator, graphics manipulation program and so on.

<rant> I don't need all that extra baggage - basically, if I want to read in the bathroom, I'll bring a book in, not install a fully stocked library and printing press in it :) </rant>


http://www.linux.org/apps/index.html will give you some apps to browse. Office >> Office will list more WPs than Office >> Word Processors BTW