AbiWord

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1 Features

2 Frequently Asked Questions

3 Online Support Forums

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Features

AbiWord http://www.abisource.com/

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks. AbiWord is unique among word processors in its drive to become a fully cross-platform word processor. Our source code is carefully written so that AbiWord will run on virtually any operating system with a minimum of time spent on porting. This combined with our support for internationalization (the ability to run AbiWord in many languages) gives AbiWord a massive potential user-base.

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Frequently Asked Questions

http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/AbiWordFAQ About AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/AbiWordFAQ)

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Online Support Forums

Internet Relay Chat is like an online chat room, except that the chat rooms are called channels instead. You can join Abiword's IRC channel and talk to ask questions that you might have. Usually there are some developers in there who can help answer your questions.

IRC Server: irc.gnome.org
IRC Channel: #abiword

If you are not familiar with IRC, you might try the following resources:

mIRC (http://www.mirc.com/) - Windows IRC client
xchat (http://www.xchat.org/) - Unix and Linux client

The nice thing about IRC is that you can (usually) get answers to your questions immediately, instead of having to wait for the mailing list's turn around time.

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Documentation

Introduction (http://web.mit.edu/abiword_v2.4.5/.share.sun4x_510/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/help/en-US/tutorial/window.html) to the interface. Tutorial (http://web.mit.edu/abiword_v2.4.5/Tutorials/jmp/letter.htm) from MIT about writing a letter with AbiWord

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