[TriLUG] New user seeking advice\help

[Cristobal Palmer]

Pallavi,

I definitely recommend you look into OpenOffice.org (
http://www.openoffice.org/ ), but in the meantime it sounds like you
want to buy CrossOver Office ( http://www.codeweavers.com/ ), since
that _should_ let you use your addins.

It sounds like it would take a fair amount of work for you to
transition to OpenOffice, but--imho--the benefits will outweigh the
costs. It's a one-time investment of time and energy, and there are no
recurring software upgrade costs once you've made the transition.

I also recommend Ubuntu ( http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ ). They'll even
ship you a CD set for free! ( https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ )

-CMP

On 1/24/06, argotera <argotera at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Mike,
>   thank you,  I  use excel and various addins like solver  ,treeplan etc for regression analysis and  business modeling.
>
>   regards
>   Pallavi
>
>
> Mike Parkhurst <Mike.Parkhurst at samsys.com> wrote:  On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 02:58 -0800, argotera wrote:
>
> Do you need MS Word and Excel, or do you need to open .doc and .xls
> files, or do you just need a good editor and spreadsheet?  The reason I
> ask is because it is not trivial to get Word or Excel running under
> Linux.  However, many Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu include office
> applications that can open most .doc and .xls files as well as native
> file types.
>
> Mike
>
> >  Hi All:)
> >
> >  I want to switch from windows to Linux, the two things i use most are  word and excel especially excel please recommend which linux  distribution would be best suited . I use an IBM T43.
> >
> >   your help is really appreciated.
> >
> >   thanks and regards
> >   Pallavi
> >
> >
> >
> > adios n  ayez un jour magnifique
> > Pallavi
> >
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