Anyone know any good Open Source word processor?

Nor am I. I'd go as far as saying there is no link.

Don't we have a torie candidate on here who rides a fixed condor? Hardly progressive.

and, going by the 'what do you do' thread, a shitload of people whose line of work is anything but progressive.

and we all probably support sweatshop labour, as most bike parts are made in the far east in hovels by children wearing rags.

yes, true.

i think i better curb my rant there and then... everyone seems really nice and friendly and caring, which is important in this world we live in.

eeehhhh Nor am I. I'd go as far as saying there is no link.

Don't we have a torie candidate on here who rides a fixed condor? Hardly progressive.

I'm pretty sure that Mouse isn't ACTUALLY a tori candidate. It was just the amusing caption he put under his (pretty preppy) photo.

Man,this shit is f *cking priceless!

well put it this way, im not politically apathetic, i just choose to display and take part in political activities which are outside the mainstream of politics, an area of politics i despise and have utter contempt for. as for riding fixed, it feels faster than any other bike iv ridden, is a lot more fun and although it has plenty of space for upgrading and such, i find there is alot less maintenance compared to my geared road bike. also i think the asthetics of the bike itself are very nice as well. as for the mac, well i suppose i was bought in by the whole design of it, and everything i do on it could be done on any other machine, but oh well. the open source stuff all links back to my view that as a society we would all be a lot better off if we all shared skills and such so that we could all work on programs and such together and cooperate to make things better rather than having a few people competing and copy writing everything and everyone else suffereing as a result of other those peoples greed.

Like I said,priceless!

eeehhhh Pages is alright, it's more suited to desktop publishing.

I use gulp MS Office on a student license. The Mac version is far better than the Windows one, although I'm dreading Office 2008.

Although if you're writing long documents use LaTeX...

http://www.tug.org/mactex/

Takes a while to get used to but very powerful.

+1, stick it through TextMate and it's a monster. It isn't for everyone, though. But I got into it just by writing letters, and it looks a lot better than anything else can produce.

I am completely apathetic :).

... I mean :|

fair enough. :|

OpenOffice is bad on Mac.... really slow. NeoOffice (Mac specific version of openoffice) is better, but it's like using a shit program circa 1990! Pages all the way, there are serial numbers all over the place for iWork. And it's designed to be used with OS X and the new iWork is optimised for Leopard especially.

Yeah, that's what I found. Hence why I use Office for Mac.

stompy [quote]eeehhhh Pages is alright, it's more suited to desktop publishing.

I use gulp MS Office on a student license. The Mac version is far better than the Windows one, although I'm dreading Office 2008.

Although if you're writing long documents use LaTeX...

http://www.tug.org/mactex/

Takes a while to get used to but very powerful.

+1, stick it through TextMate and it's a monster. It isn't for everyone, though. But I got into it just by writing letters, and it looks a lot better than anything else can produce.[/quote]

Exactly. Typesetting should be done by typesetters not the authors. The mathematical features are simply amazing compared to the shite "Microsoft Equation editor" - along with the cross-referencing too.

asm I am completely apathetic :).

... I mean :|

BUt yeah whatever I'm off to do nothing

:-|

All,

I have a laptop which doesn't have Microsoft Word or Excel.

Is there any way I can obtain these packages without forking out a small fortune for them ?

Thanks.

Do you need full versions? If not, but you want to be strictly legal then perhaps this Works 8 would do?
Microsoft Works 8: Amazon.co.uk: Software

Or just use Open Office instead, of course.

Why not go open source. OpenOffice, or its cousin Libreoffice should do all that you want.

Yes, use LibreOffice. Does all you need and is constantly getting better.

Just use LibreOffice or Google Docs.

Or, you know... go pay for the Microsoft stuff.

Neooffice works pretty well for Mac.

Support for Office 2003 ends next year.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx

I'm not copyright/patient lawyer but I think although this doesn't make it licence free, MS will no longer be monitoring usage.

There are plenty of copies of Microsoft Office kicking about online, if you were so inclined.

If you are employed by a company that is signed up to the home use deal you can get a legal copy from MS for just a few quid.

All,

Thanks for your help. I am dragging myself into the 21st century by changing over from a desktop to a laptop. The desktop has Word and Excel but the laptop doesn't and I use an external hard-drive so I need to be able to view documents in Word format on a laptap which doesn't have Word.

So, I suppose my question is, which software will allow my laptop to open documents which are in Word format ?

Google Docs opens all Word formats, can save as Word too.

It's 100% free.

Just open a @gmail.com account and access Google Docs.

You can even sync a folder (using Google Drive) such that all Microsoft office formats (except for Access) automatically appear in Google Docs and can be viewed, edited, printed from there.