[Sheflug] Office apps

[Steve Tickle <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our MD has just waltzed in and announced that he'd like all but a very few 
PCs running Linux by the end of the year. Hooray!! I hear some of the more 
partizan of you shout. On a serious note though, I have to find a suitable 
alternative to M$ Office. We currently have a couple of machines doing some 
"behind-the-scenes" stuff but all desktop machines are M$ Windoze based.

I haven't looked at Star Office or KOffice for some time so I'd really 
appreciate it if some of you could give me the low-down on how M$ 
compatible these apps are, insofar as being able to read and create M$ 
compatible files.

We don't do anything too fancy with M$ Office, just writing letters, and 
handling the occasional Excel spreadsheet. I'm already a fair way down the 
road towards replicating our Access database with MySQL and PHP.

All help gratefully received, as usual.

Cheers

Steve

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