Re: Abiword and other word processors

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Ruth A. Kramer wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:32:27 -0500
> From: Ruth A. Kramer <rhkramer@fast.net>
> To: William A. Henslee <wahoo@hal-pc.org>, abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Re: Abiword and other word processors
>
>
> William A. Henslee wrote:
> > (edited) I have a question that is either not
> > answered by the ABiword FAQ or I?m not enough of a computer geek to
> > understand the answers. I?m downloading the latest version as I type
> > so perhaps the answers will be manifest when I install it ?but maybe
> > not.
> >
> > I understand that Abiword can read and open documents from MS Word and
> > Word Perfect. Can my friends open my Abiword created documents in
> > those formats as well (providing I save as?)? Is there a ?save as? for
> > Word Perfect document format?
>
> Bill,

> Please see
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/FaqOtherFormatsExported.
> Please add to or modify that page as you gain additional information.

Microsoft Word does not understand native Abiword documents (the ones with
the .abw extension) but if as you suggest you use "Save As" and
make sure to save as type: Microsoft Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format
(.rtf) then Microsoft Word should have no problem opening those documents.

Although abiword does not include an option to save as Word Perfect
format, Word Perfect should also be able to open those formats (.doc and
.rtf) perfectly well and without any problem.

Hope that helps (if it does please let us know and if you can please try
to help improve the FAQ by adding the information I have provided).

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Thu Nov 18 20:56:55 2004