Re: DOS v Win encoding/MSW Paranoia (AbiWord)

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Bill, you might want to have a look at AbiWord. It's an open source
Word-like app that claims:

"AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types,
such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect
documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more."

The nice thing for you is that there's a "portable" version; It runs
from a single .exe file...no need to install to test it.

I have little use for "fancy" editors, but when I need one this is what
I use.

http://portableapps.com/apps/office/abiword_portable

http://www.abiword.com



-----Original Message----- From: Bill Troop

Many thanks for this - - I will investigate.

Another question. I am on Vista SP1. Will installing Office 2003 do
something to wreck my computer? Or will it execute its programs when
asked, then stop, and get out of the way when closed. What I'm asking
is if there is something it just 'does' to a computer . . . . I _do_
need to have at least MSW on hand to do the occasional edit for
others, for example my _completely_ computer-illiterate wife who has
things typed for her in MSW format which then need to be transmitted
on to publishing people who expect that format.

I THOUGHT Google Docs would solve all my problems, but lovely as it
is, it doesn't honour pre-existing tabs . . . . and that's for the
moment a deal-breaker.