[NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access

[Fred James]

I have always installed StarOffice as the user (not root) and never had 
a problem.


MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

> Speaking of Open Office...
> 
> I have it loaded on my Red Hat 7.3 box.  The install is not very 
> friendly, so it seems.
> 
> 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.
> 
> The same problem happened on the Star Office version before they 
> migrated to Open Office.
> 
> I looked through their help files on the open office website, but 
> couldn't find anything that addresses this issue.
> 
> Anyone else have this problem, or am I missing something horribly simple?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Monty
> 
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From:   Tom Woody [SMTP:woody at nfri.com]
>       Sent:   Friday, July 19, 2002 10:12 AM
>       To:     discuss at ntlug.org
>       Subject:        Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and
>       MS-Access
> 
>       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).
> 
>       On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:30:37 -0500
>       "Rengasamy, Samy" <srengasamy at firstam.com> wrote:
> 
>        > A friend of mine wants an alternative to his windoze centric
>        > systems. His office mostly uses MS-Excel and MS-Access.
>        >
>        > I was going to suggest Open Office and Postgresql, on Linux.
>        >
>        > What are your suggestions?
>        >
>        > Thanks,
>        >
>        > Samy Rengasamy.
>        >
> 
> 
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