MS office Under Linux
Liloulinx
alilou_linux at yahoo.fr
Tue Dec 26 14:28:43 UTC 2006
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Smith" <phhs80 at gmail.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: MS office Under Linux
> On 12/26/06, Edward Dekkers <edward at tdcs.com.au> wrote:
>> > "Crossover Office" is not free.
>> > I have tryed to install MS-office with Wine but I encontoured a
>> > problem.
>> > Is there any things or an other tool to add in order to solve this
>> > problem.
>> > Liloulinx
>>
>> Two real options if you don't want to pay:
>>
>> 1> Use OpenOffice instead. There's a reason MS Office won't run under
>> Linux very well - it wasn't designed for it. I wouldn't hold your breath
>> waiting for Microsoft to make a "Microsoft Office for Linux".
>>
>> 2> Get a virtual machine emulator for Linux, and install Windows and
>> Office under that.
>
> In case you have a fast enough computer and some spare hard disk
> space, then use VMware server, which is free and works fine:
>
> http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
>
> Paul
>
Yes I think that I will install VMware. It's very heavy but I haven't the
choice. I need MS-Word because OpenOffice doesn't make a symantic checking.
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Liloulinx
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