[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's what I want to know: why hasn't someone put out an open source > program that reads .DOC files (any version) and converts them to something > like RTF? That way, we wouldn't need to open some huge program just to see > what they sent us. Maybe similar with .XLS and SYLK. > > Paul M. Foster AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com, GPL) used to ship one that converted DOC to HTML fairly well. But it was integrated with AbiWord a couple of releases ago. I rate AbiWord quite highly. It's about as functional as the Dark Side's "Wordpad" program but has a spelling checker. So simple my Mum could use it, and soooo much faster than loading StarOffice when you just want to do a quick letter or note. It will also read DOC files and let you write something legible out as RTF. Vik :v) -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
