Find and replace dialogue have a cancel button, which doesnt actually cancel anything you have done, and no exit button? :/

Must be them keeping up to the well known standards of Start/turn off computer.

MS works isnt full working software, it is a bundle software to make people think that a pc will be usable for word processing out of the box.

It is a stop gap until people realise they need office.

Works....spit. Horrid stuff. Its exactly as Sweenster said, a way to make you get frustrated and buy Office. I personally prefer Abiword for basic writing as its light, not trying to be a total DTP package, saves in .odf, and free. Please dont tell me youre writing your book in Works..please. :cry:

I use a special writers proggie for that, small, lean and with some aids that no word processor has but the spellchecker isnt good so I use the one in works occasionally. Thing came with my lappy free so I might as well using it cause I paid the Gates tax for it. I really just wanted to find something in a large bit of text and it was the first thing available.

I write letters in OpenOffice, TBH I should do my book spell checking in it but cant be bothered.

Ive tried Abiword and the version I tried is better in Linux than on Windoze.

works isnt worth the disk space TBH, there are so many more worthwhile things you could do with 500MB or however much that M$ bloat takes up these days. Thats got to be good for 250 photos from your Lumix for a start.

I have 240GB internal (2x120GB drives) and another 250GB drive to go in if it gets tight so no worries there

Its also version 8 so only a mere 160mb...?  :shock:

lol star office is free for students lol could always just "say" you were a student lol.

I use that or OOffice. OOffice I have problems with however with regards to compatibility to microsoft office, work and uni all use ms office... so unless I print to pdf all the time, sometimes tables that look fine on my computer, naff up in ms office and vice versa.

Abiword used to be on my laptop. Worked great for just a word processor really low on resources too.

this is the problem of using one of the open source office programs, everyone else uses ms office still.

I have tried to use them but i have to ms office so my files actually work if i do anything other than just plain text.

Tis why they are trying to push the odf file format as a standard ahead of doc as then there is hope that ms will be forced to work in making the standard....

it was never going to happen with ms already owning the monopoly

For book writers theres always .rtf It Works with just about everything

Depends upon the version of MS Works, later versions included Word.

Whenever I exchange a document electronically, I do it via pdf. Mac and Linux both "print" to pdf out of the box. Its rude sending anything else unless its agreed upon. Its a shame MS needs add ons to produce what really is the defactor standard for electronic documents.

Quote from: maximusotterWhenever I exchange a document electronically, I do it via pdf. Mac and Linux both "print" to pdf out of the box. Its rude sending anything else unless its agreed upon. Its a shame MS needs add ons to produce what really is the defactor standard for electronic documents.

Thats fine for documents that only getting edited at one end, not so good when you need to pass documents around the team in a collaborative environment.

Quote from: maximusotterWhenever I exchange a document electronically, I do it via pdf. Mac and Linux both "print" to pdf out of the box. Its rude sending anything else unless its agreed upon. Its a shame MS needs add ons to produce what really is the defactor standard for electronic documents.

PDF is a bloody annoying format.  one of the employment agencies im dealing with only sends stuff out in PDF, and it gets right on my tits.

And I might point out that Microsoft has actually tried to get a PDF export facility put into Windows and Office but Adobe threw a major hissy fit when they did.

Quote from: maximusotterWhenever I exchange a document electronically, I do it via pdf. Mac and Linux both "print" to pdf out of the box. Its rude sending anything else unless its agreed upon. Its a shame MS needs add ons to produce what really is the defactor standard for electronic documents.

Most book publishers prefer rtf to anything else, send them a book in pdf format and they will most likely bin it.