Re: Does Abiword require MSWord to be installed on the system?

AbiWord does not need MS Word in any way at all.

Cheers

Martin

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:41 PM, V S Rawat<vsrawat@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have a "search and replay a list of phrases" working on MS Word. While it
> works, I can't use MS Office (Word/ Excel) for some reasons. If I open a
> file this software is running, or if I do any single change in any Word file
> that was already open, that software stops working and doesn't replace in
> that session any more.
>
> It is a long process, often taking 2-4 hours while that software works on a
> file and I couldn't afford not to be able to work for so long.
>
> So, I needed a software in which I could still work in MS Word files while
> that software works on .doc files.
>
> Then, I searched and found Abiword. I have installed it, though not used it
> till now.
>
> I want to know whether Abiword would work absolutely independently of MS
> Work, whether MS Word is installed or not in the system, so that my that
> software doesn't get any signal from Abiword that I have opened/ changed any
> file in Abiword, on which that software is still working.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Rawat
>
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Received on Tue Sep 8 12:12:28 2009