Why then should the mind not climb right out?

I was both impressed and unimpressed with Thinkfree Office.  I haven't come across it before, and it's always good to discover new alternatives to applications.   Compared to Google Docs it has a lot of nice functionality - it looks almost exactly like MS Office, it offers you all the same choice of fonts as you have installed on your machine, and can save directly as PDFs too.  And the HTML notes function is nice, although I do wonder whether it's not a little bit behind the curve, seeing as there are so many web 2.0 tools which make publishing content to the internet so easy already - why would you use their travel template when you could blog instead for example?   However, as many people have said already, it's just so slow!   It took an absolute age to load up the first time, and despite assurances that that was just because it was the first time, it was still not exactly speedy when opening things the second and third and fourth times.   And if that wasn't offputting enough, it was even sluggish when actually using the application, leaving me to have to wait for it to catch up with my typing.   I also found the interface rather unintuitive.   To be honest, these are dealbreakers for me.   It's nice to know that if I do get frustrated with the limited functionality of Google Docs, particularly where presentation is concerned, there is an alternative, but I can't see me using it a lot unless I really do need to overcome that limitation and am prepared to deal with it's slowness.