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Subject: Re: where is a lightweight, simple word processor?
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On Tuesday 06 May 2008 4:09 pm, Murray Stokely wrote:
> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:
> > I have been looking for a simple word processor that supports formatted
> >  text, different fonts and maybe bullet lists. And is close to WYSIWYG. I
> >  don't care about format it can save or import as long as I can find an
> >  intermediate tool to do my conversions. I don't need tables. But if it
> > can plug into another speller that would be nice but not required. Also
> > images not required, but okay. Support for multiple languages would be
> > nice but required right now. I will accept losing formatting attributes
> > when importing. Page breaks would be nice but not required.
>
> ...
>
> >  Maybe some rich format editor can be stripped out of some email client
> > or HTML editor to be a standalone simple light word processor?
>
> Google Docs meets the basic requirements you listed here, but I'm
> guessing you intentionally excluded it for other reasons?  You can
> import HTML files and plain text, Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text
> (.rtf), OpenDocument Text (.odt), StarOffice (.sxw), Microsoft
> PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps), Comma Separated Value (.csv), Microsoft Excel
> (.xls) files, and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods).  Export to the
> above formats or PDF.  Multiple people can edit the documents
> simultaneously and chat about the changes in built in discussion pane,
> etc.  Include dynamic variables from the web in your documents such as
> stock prices and such, etc, etc..

We just did a collaborative project using Google Docs while I was in Europe. 
It worked great for our purposes. I, for one, welcome our Google overlords!

:-P

-matt