Re: [PLUG] Win Word through Wine

[Alex Birch <kes@lifesabirch.org>]

Paul wrote:

> 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.

Trillian is like Gaim. I have been using OpenOffice.org for my word 
documents and nobody knows that I'm not using Office 2003.

Kes
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