[Fsfe-uk] AbiWord

[John Seago]

To Chris Croughton, I extend my apologies and accept his. to those of you 
who have patiently explained the technical points of saving attachments I 
extend my grateful thanks.

I, on the one occasion that I used an attachment, have found that I failed 
to save it in the right format. Strangely enough I have discovered that 
AbiWord will save in 26 formats, including RTF, backwardly compatible RTF, 
and Microsoft formats, including Word .docs. These 26 formats seem to be 
10 more than OpenOffice can save in, I have yet to check if those that 
AbiWord uses, cover those that are present in Open Office, which would 
seem to make AbiWord, as a stand alone word processor, a useful tool for 
those who do not want or need the OpenOffice Suite of applications.

I will write to the e-Government Unit, to discover which formats they can 
open, should I ever use and attachment again. 
-- 
John Seago
GNU/Linux User #219566 http://counter.li.org
AFFS http://www.affs.org.uk/