FC5, Wine and NTFS
Mark Haney
mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Thu Jun 21 12:29:41 UTC 2007
Chris Jones wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> I have a similar setup. I use ntfs-3g to be able to read and write to
>> my NTFS drive, but instead of using MS office, I use Openoffice to read
>> and write my Word/Excel documents. I've had very little trouble in the
>> way of import/formatting problems and most of those were easy to
>> rectify. Maybe this will work for you.
>
> What version of Openoffice are you using ? I think FC5 by default has
> version 1.X, which does have some problems with certain MS documents.
> However, the latest versions, 2.X, are much improved. I've not had any
> compatibility problems since updating.
>
> If you are using 1.X, I would consider updating to 2.X (the latest is
> 2.2 - There are rpms available from the main openoffice web site site).
> You may find you don't need MS office at all ;)
>
> Chris
>
I'm definitely using Oo2, but my boss loves his Excel Spreadsheets and
in some cases his exotic formatting doesn't import correctly. Nothing I
can't fix, so I'm not all that worried about it.
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Mark Haney
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