Re: Just to be very clear about Office

To: Robert Isaac <rjisaac@gmail.com>
Cc: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>, debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Just to be very clear about Office
From: Chris Swenson <chris@cswenson.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:42:47 -0600
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Even MS Office doesn't fully support the standard OOXML...

– Chris

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Robert Isaac <rjisaac@gmail.com> wrote:

> You will find the user interface
> different. It is capable of reading and writing microsoft file
> formats,

OpenOffice still doesn't write OOXML and there is very little macro
compatibility
with Excel.

> I dn't know what to do if you want to run Microsoft Office on a Linux system.
> Rumours are that it can be run on Wine to some extent.

Older versions, yes, newer versions not so much.
Buy a Windows license with the MS Office license and run them in a vm.

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References:
- Re: packages requiring ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
  - From: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
- Office
  - From: "elarav" <elarav@ucp.ij.rimed.cu>
- Re: Office
  - From: Adam Stiles <adam@priceengines.co.uk>
- Re: Office
  - From: Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>
- Just to be very clear about Office
  - From: Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>
- Re: Just to be very clear about Office
  - From: Robert Isaac <rjisaac@gmail.com>

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