Posted March 9th, 2007 in Software

AbiWord

I never thought that there was a program out there that could switch me off of the Open Office Suite, specifiably Writer. Open Office Writer worked just fine for me. It was exactly like Microsoft Office Word. Since I had to use Word for school and work I felt completely at home in Writer.

That was until I was flipping through the December 2006 Linux Journal and scanning over their best of 2006 awards. To my surprise Open Office Writer didn’t win best word processor, AbiWord did. I had heard of AbiWord before on the Ubuntu Forums but never thought much of it. Seeing it win an award from Linux Journal made me reconsider this under dog. As soon as I got home that night I set about downloading and installing AbiWord.

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