Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 19:20, BruceG wrote:
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> From: "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
> To: "Debian-User" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 7:26 PM
> Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama
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> > On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 16:58, BruceG wrote:
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Mike Dresser" <mdresser_l@windsormachine.com>
> > > To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:45 PM
> > > Subject: Re: Free-lance - office move stuff-o-rama
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, BruceG wrote:
[snip]
> Yeah, OOo for Windows might be a great start! I burned an OOo 1.1.0 RC2 CD.
> Will need to burn a new CD, and maybe pick up a user's guide.
>
> Right now they use Corel Office Suite (Word Perfect) for the bulletin, and
> MS Office Suite for other apps. I didn't count licenses, but did do the
> story about there needing to be one license for each copy installed, and all
> licenses need to be stored and easily accessible by one (and only one)
> person. I think OOo is a great fit for most of their requirements, and it
> does fit into the sneakernet way of installing apps.
>
> A good test would be to install OOo on one of the PC's, or even on a kiosk
> PC - then try to open docs. Unfortunately there isn't currently a Word
> Perfect filter for OOo.
StarOffice is supposed to have good WP filters. Also, I've heard
that there's an OOo WP-filter project on sourceforge.
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