Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
Word Perfect works find in my machine. While I was in Redhat,
had d/l it as .tar format. And it just installs perfectly in
Debian too. And I have found a bug or something too.
When I type the word "miniscule" followed by a space, wp8
immediately crashes and disappers from screen. I don't know
if its a bug or something wrong with my installation. Anybody
using wp8, please check this.
Once upon a time, "D. Hoyem" <youto_22554@yahoo.com> found a keyboard. And typed:
>For Word Processing what about Word Perfect 8? There
>is a Linux version and it is free, I'm not sure that
>it will work on Debian though. Its a tar.gz file, not
>sure about the depends.
>--- joe golden <jg1024@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to switch our small (12 machine) NT
>> network over to Linux. Some
>> of the main computer applications at our school are
>> web browsing , word
>> processing and spreadsheets (MS Internet Explorer,
>> Word and Excel).
>>
>> I am running Linux debian 2.2.18pre21 and just
>> updated last week.
>>
>> Netscape makes a great replacement for Internet
>> Explorer.
>>
>> Abiword seems to work OK, but sometimes appears to
>> split lines and I've had
>> problems importing an image into a document. I
>> haven't used Abiword much,
>> but have already seen these problems. What is a
>> better alternative that
>> isn't too bloated. This is the major application we
>> need for the school.
>>
>> For spreadsheets in school, you need to make graphs.
>> Gnumeric seems slick,
>> but last time I checked, *no graphs*. I need
>> graphical representation of
>> data for test scores, etc.
>>
>> Is Star Office the answer? Can the huge Star office
>> package be broken into
>> smaller more manageable parts?
>>
>> Thanks for previous help and thanks in advance,
>> Joe Golden,
>> The Stevens School of Peacham
>>
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