AbiWord vs. MS Word, For Now

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday September 1, 2004 @01:51AM from the abiword-is-an-unsung-hero dept.

Gsurface writes "If you have decided that it is time to kill MS Word, then it is time to look for an alternative. Flexbeta.net compares AbiWord, part of a larger project known as AbiSource, with MS Word and asks: is AbiWord a worthy MS Word replacement? Not to ruin the ending but according to the article the only draw back to AbiWord is that it currently does not feature a grammar checker, though a plug-in is in the works." (Also on this front, AbiWord's native Mac OS X version is labeled experimental, but seems to work very nicely.)

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Sadly... by cs02rm0 · 2004-09-01 01:54 · Score: 5, Informative

...these things usually need to be able to work with Word formats and that's fine with AbiWord as long as you keep to text only. Start adding fancy lines and stuff in Word and view it with AbiWord, or vice versa, and things start to fall apart.

Haven't got any complaints with it as a standalone piece of software, I only tend to use about 2% of a word processor's features myself though.