Kingsoft Office Suite Free 2012

[william1955]

Today, I installed Kingsoft Office Suite Free and play with it some time.
Sad to say, but in my opinion, this free suite is almost unusable.
There is not possible to apply any formating setting on paragraph level.
All formatting apply to whole document - in my opinion it is crazy.
For example, I select one three lines long paragraph and apply center alignment.
After that whole document become center aligned. And so on.

Best regards
William

[deya]

William; sounds like you installed the latest free version, 8.1.0.3010. If you look at the comparison chart on the page that syntax error linked to you'll see that 'Paragraph Adjustment' isn't supported in the free version. I'm using version 8.1.0.2942, the one that was originally linked to in this thread, and you can adjust paragraphs without moving the whole document with that version.

This goes back to the original concerns expressed on here about the program becoming limited in future versions. Only thing to suggest is that you try and find a download for 8.1.0.2942 but whether you'll have any luck, I don't know.

For what it's worth, on the two machines I'm still running it on I've not had any pop ups or updates, with or without the updater left installed. I still have the original set up file but won't be installing it on anything else. Shame, but I think deep down we all suspected that it was too good to be true. Several other free alterantives though, and Kingsoft Office 2012 does un install easily enough.

[Anupam]

That is quite a stupid limitation in the free version. Its definitely a shame, that they put such restriction.

[william1955]

To: deya
You are right, I installed and test Kingsoft Office Suite Free version 8.1.0.3010
downloaded from Kingsoft www page.

But, I found, that older version 8.1.0.2942 dated 24 September is available on
MajorGeeks.com
I will be able to install it and check everything by a couple of days, but i hope,
everything will be OK with this version.

P.S. dated 24 Sept i.e. without described earlier problem with 1 year full funcionality
period.

Best regards
William

[thaikinh]

Dear,

I am using the latest KS Office 2012 version 8.1.0.3010, and I have no problems in playing with paragraphs, even with the smart adjustment that KS Office 2012 provides.

KS Office has been built with MS Office compatibility in mind, and actually I've tried LibreOffice, OpenOffice and some others, but only KS Office shows the highest compatibility with MS Word files. Especially with complicated word files, the TOC for example, will be messed up even with the newest LibreOffice 3.4.5. But it's fine with KS Office.

If in the future, KS Office supports saving the file in .docx format, that would be perfect.

Yes, I do want to use LibreOffice as an alternative, but since 99% people in my country are using MS Office (legally or illegally), and if they keep sending me the files in MS Office format, I'll have to look for the best compatible software with MS Office anyway.

[George.J]

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showp...3&postcount=70

This post shows that a user has been able to get paragraph adjustment with Kingsoft Office Free for version 8.1.0.3010