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> For most simple editing and writing I use a freeware program called
> Jarte. It's a small program and relatively simple but it can handle
> just about anything and allows you to manipulate Fonts and such and
> you can set it up to save files as PDF or HTML and it can do Spell
> Checking and access a Thesaurus and Dictionary, although some of
> those may also require other small programs on your computer to
> work properly.. I think.  It did at one time but it has improved
> over the years as well. I do know it used the DoPDF program on my
> system to convert to PDF. It can do search and replace as well.

Is Jarte a windows program?

> Because of all that I rarely use a Word Processor program anymore.

I also rarely used one until recently.  I have Libreoffice installed on a
couple of computers.  The spreadsheet program works just fine... as good or
better than Excel... but the word processor not so much.  I was recently
trying to do a few more complicated things to a document and found that it
is severely lacking vs. Word.  I can do the same things but it takes more
hoops to jump through -- complicated enough that it is easy to miss a
step -- it really made me miss Word.

I may have to get an older copy of Word installed on my old Win98SE laptop
and start doing my editing that way.  It was that bad.  :(

I am keeping my eyes open for some other linux alternatives, though.

Mike

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