I read that as well and found it an interesting discussion. I tried vi for a while, but just couldn't get myself to adopt it. At the same time, I now find myself limited at work to either Notepad or Word XP, neither of which I'm particularly fond of. I tend to use Word in final draft stages, but in times past (previous jobs and at home), I usually find myself using TextPad - a pretty basic text editor with the functions I want (and need) but without the ones that drive me crazy.
I'm hoping they'll let me install it on my work computer ...
I've been happy with the word processor part of Open Office, something I blogged about in August ( http://ghw.wordherders.net/archives/000620.html ) and which I've been using since about last January. In order to share electronic documents for reading, I've just been exporting them as PDFs. It will also save in MS Word format, although I don't know how well this works.
MS Word format doesn't work well at all, I'm afraid. This was *very* frustrating, until I discovered that the native format doesn't have problems saving! Then everything was happy, because (like you) when sharing, I just export as PDF.
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I read that as well and found it an interesting discussion. I tried vi for a while, but just couldn't get myself to adopt it. At the same time, I now find myself limited at work to either Notepad or Word XP, neither of which I'm particularly fond of. I tend to use Word in final draft stages, but in times past (previous jobs and at home), I usually find myself using TextPad - a pretty basic text editor with the functions I want (and need) but without the ones that drive me crazy.
I'm hoping they'll let me install it on my work computer ...
Posted by: Jason | September 25, 2003 9:31 AM
I've been happy with the word processor part of Open Office, something I blogged about in August ( http://ghw.wordherders.net/archives/000620.html ) and which I've been using since about last January. In order to share electronic documents for reading, I've just been exporting them as PDFs. It will also save in MS Word format, although I don't know how well this works.
Posted by: George | September 25, 2003 9:51 AM
Interesting. If I ever replace the hard drive on my bulky useless laptop, I'm installing Linux and Open Office I think...
Posted by: Jason | September 25, 2003 12:26 PM
MS Word format doesn't work well at all, I'm afraid. This was *very* frustrating, until I discovered that the native format doesn't have problems saving! Then everything was happy, because (like you) when sharing, I just export as PDF.
Posted by: vika | September 26, 2003 9:06 AM