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AbiWord


Abiword is the default word processor in many versions on Puppy. It is part of the GnomeOffice GNOME Office suite of programs. Not to be be confused with simpler TextEditors text editors like Geany Geany.
LibreOffice may be more suitable if you require an advanced office suite.

AbiWord is capable of many wordprocessing tasks. It can open most industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice, MS Word, WordPerfect, Rich Text Format and HTML. It can save most formats, but can not save in MS Word binary .doc format.

Installation
AbiWord is included in most Puppies.
Puppy Menu > Document > Document/Publishing > AbiWord
or
Clicking on Write on the Desktop (when set as default word processor)


Where not included or to update use an appropriate package:
abiword-portable-3.0.0.tar.gz version for Precise and Slacko, packaged by Shinobar.

Missing library
The library libaspell has been over looked in some Puppy versions. This can be corrected this installing:


Limitations
Abiword is okay for small documents but becomes unreliable after documents get bigger than about fifteen pages.

Also on the Wiki
UsingAbiWord Using Abiword - more information about the program.
LibreOffice - suite by the Document Foundation
OpenOffice - suite by Apache
Ooo4Kids - cut down suite for children
OooLight - lightweight word-processor


Forum Topics

References


Categories
CategoryOffice
CategorySoftware
Comments
Comment by 84-75-4-105.dclient.hispeed.ch
2021-01-09 08:03:03
You are right, AbiWord on most older Puppies as default was not a good idea:
When data in a Tree of data are in a far off place, it is is not simple, AbiWord may not find them. It is not good, when AbiWord changes Formats of Text with images mixed. I can not change Text default in defaults.list to libre office.
What can I do?
Martinus 9.1.21
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