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Originally Posted by cromag
I have used Abiword when I needed to run Linux on very old hardware. Abiword is a good word processor, but it's designed for systems that have limited resources -- there's no reason (I can think of) for having both Abiword and LibreOffice on the same computer. If you can run LibreOffice without problems I'd uninstall Abiword. (If it turns out you do need to have Abiword too, you can always re-install it -- it's free.)
I've never used highlighting but it's entirely possible that a given feature would be implemented differently with two different applications. You can keep Abiword from opening as eschwartz described, but make sure you hit all the word processing formats you might use, like .doc, .docx, etc.
But, honestly, my first recommendation would be to uninstall Abiword and see if that helps.
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Uninstalled AbiWord, cromag, but it opened up a hornet's nest. It seems most, if not all, of the documents made in AbiWord will not open in LO. (see 48 screenshot) So I thought I would hang on to AbiWord if I needed it (because I have a couple of docs just loaded with minutiae that would be hell-ish to re-type), and just do eschwartz's thing of setting the default to LO but there was no place to do that (screenshot 49) so I uninstalled AbiWord. Fortunately the one doc I really need opened in LO. I'm going to make a copy of it, and as soon is feasible get rid of it altogether.
I'm a little nervous about LO now because I, coming over from Windows, do have a lot of .doc files. I'm hoping they'll be okay opening in LO and such. We'll see.