On May 1, 2005, at 9:04 PM, David Sims wrote: > I just down loaded and installed NeoOffice. The first MS word document > I opened lost much of its formatting( tables disappeared). The second > did not display properly either (images were not displayed properly). > > Any other ideas for a non MS word processor that will preserve the > formatting of a word doc? There is the free and cross-platform AbiWord available from: <http://www.abisource.com/>