nightcrawler1089 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I'm using NeoOffice until Windows Office goes Intel, but it takes a long time to open up (I'm assuming that will change once I get more RAM, but still...)Anyone know of a tiny app that can open and edit (and save) .doc files fairly well? I suppose by tiny, I really mean an application that will open up quickly.Thanks!-NCP.S: Now that I look at it, TextEdit isn't half-bad. Are there any others? Link to post
gnomexp 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Hahaha... ha... aaah. I have no clue. >_<I just use Office. It loads quick enough and is so feature rich, I don't have to worry about other stuff. Plus, I'm just now getting into EndnoteX for research papers. My text editor of choice is TextMate. Link to post
liquidplasmaflow 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Pages? It's pretty quick for me. Link to post
nightcrawler1089 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Ah, sorry, I should have made this clear--it needs to be freeware. Pages might be quick, but I haven't shelled out the money for iWork (and the same goes for Office--otherwise, it probably would be snappy). Thanks for your suggestions, guys! -NC Link to post
Ellada 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 though it is based more toward web design etc smultron is ok and free... i guess that is what ytou are looking for if you said textedit was somewhat something you look for :> Link to post
testos 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I didn't even know you went mac...How about OpenOffice, there's an osx port. Link to post
bh2 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I must say TextEdit looks pretty good for smallish .docs. Link to post
nightcrawler1089 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 I didn't even know you went mac... How about OpenOffice, there's an osx port. Yep, nearly a month ago by now! NeoOffice is similar to OpenOffice--I assume they're both large enough to take a sufficiently long time to load. I must say TextEdit looks pretty good for smallish .docs. Yeah, I hadn't tried it for opening .doc files because I assumed it was like WordPad (for Windows)--a bunch of garbled symbols. I tried it at about the same time I created this thread, and it really works excellently! Bold, italics, etc.--I tried opening a file that already had columns, and those opened fine. It just couldn't save back to columns, but I still think that's pretty impressive. I have a feeling I'll be sticking with TextEdit . Thanks everyone, -NC Link to post
TheBigB 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 i dunno if there's an osx port but abiword is pretty fast Link to post
Converse 0 Posted September 17, 2006 Report Share Posted September 17, 2006 Yep, Abiword is out for OSX.http://www.abisource.com/download/ Link to post
ZTL 0 Posted September 18, 2006 Report Share Posted September 18, 2006 Hm, looks like someone already suggested TextEdit. But yeah, it can open and [i think] export to .doc. Link to post
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