[Wine] Re: Office 2007 is a half ass work'n

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mrchaos101  If you plan is migrating off windows starting in wine emulating MS office is the complete wrong way to get there.

You will find unless you use VBA macros openoffice calc is basically 100 percent compad with MS Office Excel.   Even then there are good documents out there to migrate macros from MS Office Excel to ODS/OpenOffice.  So removing that dependency.

These document storage issues really should be sorted out on windows not as part of the migration to linux.  Ie Openoffice or librioffice deployed on the windows machine as starting point.

Access most items using access should be migrated before starting the migration to Linux.  Option include many front ends for postgresql and mysql.  http://www.glom.org  springs to mind.  Kexi is also good even that it install on windows makes quite a bit of harddrive go by by since it installs with the the complete koffice and there is a quite major image processing program in there.