Re: [PLUG] Win Word through Wine

[Paul <gyoza@comcast.net>]

McLinux wrote:

> I have managed to install wine on my linux box. It could run some of 
> application as WinZip, Trillian (without MSN), Paint, MS Excel, 
> however it could not run Word. Has anyone tried Word through Wine? 
> Some may have question as why not use OpenOffice... I did try this, 
> but the formatting used to get wile  (Official file have to be in word 
> format!) and hence I am looking for this option...

OK, you explained the need to run Word, but what about Paint, WinZip, 
and Excel?  (I don't know what Trillian is.)  I hope you were just 
running Paint as your inital test.
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