Re: small school: replacements for MS Word and Excel
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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