OpenOffice Alternative: KWord 1.6, Dec 11, 2007

OpenOffice is the darling of the FOSS office suites, and it is a nice suite. It's cross-platform, and OpenOffice Writer is a first-rate word processor with a lot of advanced features. But it's not the only good option for Linux users: Abiword and KWord are excellent lightweight word processors with good feature sets, and both are licensed under the GPL. All three are wonderful. In this two-part series we're going to dig into KWord 1.6, and mine some of its hidden jewels.

It's been three years since OpenOffice.org was launched: today is our birthday. To honor this day and the community who are making OpenOffice.org success, we have arranged a series of pages focusing on interviews and OpenOffice.org's push to schools, which is led by Ian Lynch of the Marketing Project.