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

[Fred James]

One more thought - actually a question as well - I haven't documented 
this so I cannot be sure, but it seems to be that the MS Word/Excel 
documents that I have had trouble with in StarOffice, have come from MAC 
users - is this a common experience with anyone else?


Fred James wrote:

> 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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