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Sorry about that. I haven't installed Abiword personally. Surprising that's the case with changing the default Save As in Abiword. I guess that's the potential downside to something that's scaled down.
I suspect you will get lots of help here with the LibreOffice Suite of office products since it's the default package. What I wrote yesterday will change your default Save As options if you're interested.
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08-19-2015, 01:22 AM
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Hi Colin,
That Abiword change is pretty easy to do via a text editor. First right-click and open up the containing folder 'usr/share/abiword' as Administrator. Once in the folder right-click System Profile and open in a text editor. Then paste in the desired default saving format as per that page you linked to (I used .rtf), and Save. Done.
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I use TED and forgetta about it. It handles rtf files right out of the box and is a lightweight install also.
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That Abiword change is pretty easy to do via a text editor. First right-click and open up the containing folder 'usr/share/abiword' as Administrator. Once in the folder right-click System Profile and open in a text editor. Then paste in the desired default saving format as per that page you linked to (I used .rtf), and Save. Done.
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Awesome, Colin. You're very welcome! I think Abi will give you more options than Wordpad.
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Do these things such as Wine, Vm , Vbox, require having windoze installed on the same HDD , such as in Dual Boot config ?thanks,, daryl
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Wine is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several operating systems, such as Linux, Mac OSX, & BSD. It can be installed via Lite Software (
Menu, System, Lite Software).
https://www.winehq.org/about/
VM is a virtual machine, a software computer.
Vbox is short for Virtualbox. It is used to create software based computers, ie. virtual computers. It can also be installed via Lite Software. You can install Virtualbox onto Linux Lite, and install other operating systems into a virtual machine within Virtualbox.
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Wine itself has no licensing issues that I know of. Running Windows itself in a virtual machines, though, does. I'm not sure if using the oem Windows license attached to the original hardware will work when Windows is in a VM.
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Hello!
Actually, the WordPad that comes with Windows 7 is quite a powerful little program. It reads and saves documents in many formats, including Office's .docx format...
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To N4RPS,
I take it that would be the "Office Open XML Document" Save as type?
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