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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Speaking of Open Office...</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have it loaded on my Red Hat 7.3 box. The install is not very friendly, so it seems.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I install it as root, and under root it works fine. It even shows up in the KDE menu structure. A wonderful thing. However, under the other users I have on the box, nothing works until I copy some obscure dotted file over to the home directory of the various users(I don't know the name of the file. I'm not where the box is.). Also, none of the options are in the KDE menu structure.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The same problem happened on the Star Office version before they migrated to Open Office.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I looked through their help files on the open office website, but couldn't find anything that addresses this issue.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Anyone else have this problem, or am I missing something horribly simple?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks,</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Monty</FONT>
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<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: Tom Woody [SMTP:woody@nfri.com]</FONT></B>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sent: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Friday, July 19, 2002 10:12 AM</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">discuss@ntlug.org</FONT>
<BR><B><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: </FONT></B> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have had good experience with Star Office (on Windows and on Linux). Some features of Excel and Word don't translate very well into Star Office, but otherwise it works very well. It would primarily depend on the features used in the spreadsheets that he would need to work on. I have never installed the DB portion of Star Office (MySQL works perfectly for me).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:30:37 -0500</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">"Rengasamy, Samy" <srengasamy@firstam.com> wrote:</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> A friend of mine wants an alternative to his windoze centric</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> systems. His office mostly uses MS-Excel and MS-Access.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> I was going to suggest Open Office and Postgresql, on Linux.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> What are your suggestions?</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> Thanks,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> Samy Rengasamy.</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> </FONT>
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