Indeed, that's also a problem with AbiWord. I habitually autosave my work-in-progress (as .rtf -- is there any other format for manuscripts?) to a separate FAT32 partition on my USB stick. Best of all worlds

PS I did consider the sfs version of FreeOffice, which is fine if you want the whole thing. But you have to install it to select the components if, say, you just want to install Text Maker with en_gb dictionary.

hi WillE what puppy are you using? as the problem with epdfview is a bug with JWM (joes window manager) that affected some puppies. it affected the fullscreen option on all apps. This shouldn't be a problem in later puppies. also instead of resetting the computer, you can press 'ctrl, left alt and ...

The problem is we aren't an unscrupulous marketing company like Microsoft. We lack the incentive or financial motivation to lie to you. If we were, the minimum specs could change, it might be like this: Minimum specs for Puppy is a 386 computer with 2MB RAM. Pay 89.95 at the register. ~ Well... I h...

Thanks, Burn_IT. I'll give them a try.

BTW, searching this board I note that there's actually an SFS avaiable for Kingston Office at http://www.adrive.com/public/85NbyD/kingston-9-0.sfs

I love my puppy! Unlike the canine variety it generally does as it's told and costs me nothing. Sorted. As a professional writer and musician I use my computer for the basics: word processing, web and email. The Puppy experience is fast and stable. It does what I need and runs like shit off a shovel...