Re: [Sheflug] Office apps

[Harvey Kelly <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,

I really wouldn't go for KOffice: nice idea (KFormula does me a treat)
but it really doesn't have enough features shall we say, and I've found
it quite unstable.

OpenOffice - or the new StarOffice if you've got a few quid for the
added goodies.

Harvey

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:56:41AM +0100, Richard Davies wrote:
> On Monday 01 July 2002 14:37, you wrote:
> 
> My business has used nothing but Star Office since Version 5.2 initially on 
> windoze 98 and for the past couple of years on Mandrake. Currently running 
> 6.0 and have never had any incompatibility problems between it and ms office 
> either importing or exporting files. Open Office is reported to be nearly as 
> good but I have never used it so couldn't comment.
> 
> > 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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> Richard
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