Office apps (Word and Excel) questions

[Steven Broos]

I tried so many times, and I tried so hard ...
With some people it seems to work perfectly, with some people it doesn't
work at all.
I don't think there is one good walkthrough

Anyway
Finally I purchased the 'commercial product' as you mentioned it.
First I didn't like they were making money out of a GPL-project
but yeah, what would you do :-)

Anyway, I'm really satisfied with the 'commercial product', at least so far.
I just installed it today, and didn't try any tricky things yet.
The basic functionality is working.  So I suppose it's worth it's money
Even MS Access and MS Outlook do their thing, although there are a couple
minor strange things in it.

Only thing I have problems with is IE.  But who needs IE on Linux ? :-)
(I do :/ )

Anyway
If you were thinking about the 'commercial product', and you can't find a
decent solution
I should say, give it a try
I think I'v read on the 'commercial product's' website they offer a complete
refund when you're not satisfied.


wow, I actually replied in a newsgroup :-)
btw guys, thanks for all the help !

Greetings,
Steven



-----Original Message-----
From: wine-users-admin at winehq.com [mailto:wine-users-admin at winehq.com]On
Behalf Of Louis LeBlanc
Sent: donderdag 13 maart 2003 18:28
To: wine-users at winehq.com
Subject: Office apps (Word and Excel) questions


Hey all.  I have an interesting one here.

I'm running wine under FreeBSD, not the linux-emulation version, but
the native version.  I never had a Windows installation to work with
though, and the best I could do was run freecell.  Pretty cool from a
proof of concept point, but not really worth the effort in itself.

What I'm trying to do now is take a spare hard drive and install
Windows 2000 in an NTFS partition on it, then mount that into the
FreeBSD system.  My first bout with the wine docs implied that having
a real installation with all the native libs would make a lot of it
quite a bit smoother.

Now, I know there's a commercial product that will allow Office 2K to
run under Linux (and therefore, probably FreeBSD), but I don't really
want Office, just Word and Excel.  Anyone know if there are any
caveats to this?  Where would one go to get the step by step process
of doing this once the install is available?

TIA

Lou
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