Wine and Office

[Jim Cornette]

MJang wrote:
> Dear Jim,
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Cornette" <jim-cornette at columbus.rr.com>
> 
>>Except for Access, what does Office do that Openoffice does not handle.
>>Why run the MSoffice on Linux? Is it valuable or just a contest to see
>>how many win32 programs from Microsoft that you can run?
> 
> 
> While OpenOffice.org Write is now close, it is not adequate for some publishers whose infrastructure is based on MS Word and related
> apps. For example, some publishers have specialty scripts within MS Word that just don't work for OOo Write for Windows, much less
> for OOo Write for Linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike Jang
> 

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)

Jim

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