[TriLUG] StarOffice/OpenOffice

[Janyne Kizer]

StarOffice 5.2 is supported and 5.1 is not, however, I'd probably just
wait a few months for 6.0 to be released.  Then again, Sun has implied
that 6.0 might be a "for pay" product.

"M. Mueller (bhu5nji)" wrote:
> 
> On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:15 pm, you wrote:
> > >In general any distro will work well. The apps are what most folks refer
> > > to when they think of MS compatibility.  Use Abiword for your doc's and
> > > gnumeric for spreadsheets and folks will never know that you aren't
> > > plugged into MS-Office.
> >
> > HA!  From a low level standpoint, Star(/Open)Office 5.2 has FAR better
> > Excel 97+ support then gnumeric.  In fact the gnumeric Excel plugin is
> > based on Excel 95.  (And yet I would know this at a very low level
> > http://poi.sourceforge.net)..
> 
> It's kind of eerie how the document icons are so familiar, at least in 5.1.
> 
> BTW, is it worth the effort to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2?  Switch to Open?
> 
> >
> > -Andy
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