[SC.LUG] Abiword, Gnumeric and Openoffice

[Matthew Tolley]

As a long-standing user of documents and spreadsheets using Openoffice, 
I have recently moved to Ubuntu and found Abiword and Gnumeric installed 
as the default programs.

Do they have any advantages in terms of open-ness? (or any other 
advantage?). As far as I can tell Openoffice seems far superior from a 
technical point of view. I like to use open formats wherever possible 
and know that odt and ods are open formats, while abw, for example, is 
not known to me.

While I remember, can someone suggest a program to automate the 
conversion of my remaining .doc and .xls files into open formats?

Best wishes,



Matthew