I use LibreOffice, but actually, would prefer to use OpenOffice.
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You'll get no argument from me over AbiWord. I've complained about it on the forum in the past.slavvo67 wrote:There is a small or portable Open Office floating around somewhere on this message board. You may want to search it out. If I recall, it was a bit older but still was quite solid.
Libre is kind of big and bulky but still a huge improvement over the old ABI Word that was the default (crash) word (crash crash) processor (crash crash crash)....
Any specific reason for an older version, though? (Just curious.) I'm currently using one of the v5 releases of LibreOffice, so I shouldn't have any problems running a recent version of OpenOffice.Semme wrote:Try the 3.2 version here. I recall rufwoof giving it a thumbs up!
Is there anything else out there (that is NOT AbiWordslavvo67 wrote:Well, my thought is that older is generally lighter. Comparing apples and oranges, maybe but Firefox is a perfect example. It has at least doubled in size over the past 5 years or so.
I had the impression that you were looking for a stable word processor without the bulk of Libre. Besides, newer is usually just jammed with features most people seldom use, anyway....
Mostly just personal preference, really. Though, Libre's attempts to look, feel and do some things differently do sometimes lead to munging some of the features (like making it rather difficult to insert a horizontal rule, for example).Can I ask why your preference to Open Office?