On Friday 22 February 2002 10:31 am, Austad, Jay wrote: > I used to use Applixware about 5 years ago, and it was a sweet product even > back then. I would definitely suggest trying it out. > > The hancom stuff looks OK, but their professional suite just comes with > extra stuff that you can download for free from thekompany.com. > > If I were to blindly pick one though, it would definitely be Applixware. > Each to his own. I tried the Applixware demo -- and though I'd downloaded it fresh from the website, it reported that it had expired ... but did come up. The only problem was that when I tried to open a Word document, it hung (the program, that is, not the system -- thank Ghu for Linux). Right now, for what I do -- fairly vanilla formatting stuff that sometimes needs to be distributed in Word format -- OpenOffice.org seems to work awfully well, although there are a few glitches with some of the finer points of Word-format import and export, which I understand are being addressed in the release version of Star Office 6.0. (OpenOffice.org -- they prefer that it be called that rather than anything else -- is the open source version of Star Office, and seems to have all of the features that I use.)