Carson Wilcox wrote:
> What I need to do is run M$word and I hate to reboot
> to windows to do it.
> I normally use OpenOffice but have some docs at work
> that simply don't convert well enough to do that.
>
> Any Ideas, and please don't suggest that the company
> switch because that isn't about to happen, not in my
> life time, as much as I'd like it to. At any rate, I'm
> a consultant and will be long gone before they
> consider it.
>
> Carson
>
Codeweavers has a package called "Crossover Office" that is explicitly
designed to run M$ Office under Linux (I think that this is a
specialized version of Wine). You have to pay for Crossover Office
($25?) and then you have to pay for M$ Office. Have you looked at
WordPerfect for Linux? I would expect it to be able to read and write
M$ Office documents (though I don't know for sure). Is there a Beta of
StarOffice 6 that you could try? If it reads and writes the docs that
you need, it might be worth the cash.
--ronan
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