Wine and Office

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003, Jim Cornette wrote:

> Thank for a rational reason why you would still want to use MSOffice on 
> Linux.
> Is there any bugs submitted to openoffice to get the script processing 
> resolved? (win32 or Linux)

That's hardly one bug ;-)

OpenOffice works fairly well for non-complex MS files. It doesn't handle
complex MS templates, or complex Word / Excel / PowerPoint files well. For
each of those, you have to submit the file separately (assuming its a file
whose contents even can be submitted in a bug report), then OOo tells you
they'll not have time to even try to fix it before the 2.0 beta (not meant
as a flame -- that just seems to be the reality)

If you have a large mass of existing files in a proprietary format, you're 
still stuck needing the proprietary software to work with them.

Ditto if you have complex templates you need to use because the person / 
company you're writing for needs the text in a specific format.

later,
chris