Newbie questions

[Tried to send this a couple of days ago, but never saw it posted to
the list and never got a reply, so I thought I'd try again.]

Hi --

Just downloaded AbiWord 2.2.10 for Mac OS X (10.4) from SourceForge.
The program starts fine and a number of plugins appear to be
installed (9 all together, including HTML, WordPerfect, and OpenOffice).

But I am surprised that I can't open Word files. It doesn't work when
I drag a Word file to the AbiWord icon, nor does it work from within
the app using File -> Open. When I open a file, all I get is a blank
document (as if I can tried to create a new document). The Word files
were written with the Mac version of MS Word 2001 under Mac System 9.1.

I have read in more than one place that the program will import Word
files (which makes a lot of sense), but I must be doing something
wrong. Can anyone help?

FWIW, I seem to be able to save in Word format, and those files open
fine with Word.

Finally, I did download AbiWord 2.4, but found it somewhat unstable
on the Mac, so I switched back to 2.2.10. Has anyone else found this
to be the case?

Barry Wong, bwong@stanfordalumni.org
International Student Ministry
McGill and Concordia Universities

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