Re: Problem in importing Word 97 Document


Subject: Re: Problem in importing Word 97 Document
From: Russell P. Sutherland (russ@quist.on.ca)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 07:56:28 CST


In general I have found that the current beta version of
Abiword are not yet ready for production use.

1. Some distributions crash on startup.
2. The MS-Word import functionality is medium to poor
3. The MS-Word feature set is very sparse. E.g.
   no bullet list, numbered lists.

This is not to say the I'm generally down on the product.
Rather that I tried, but at the present time, it is
still not a package that I can use or give to my users
as a Word-like processor for Unix.

For the interim I am forced to use the StarOffice suite.

I await a more stable and featureful release.

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