Re: about Wine

From: Jonathan McNeil Wong (jonathan_at_donahue.com)
Date: 02/07/05 

Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2005 23:19:10 GMT

Peter H wrote:
> Kevin Nathan wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 23:51:15 GMT
>>Peter H <pete@vicnet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If anyone has been able to get wine going properly and can give us
>>>less experienced users some tips, it would be greatly appreciated.
>>>It's not that I like windows, but I need Excel for compatability with
>>>work and would rather not have to have a disk with windows on it :-)
>>
>>Typing 'wine' has worked for me. I think the config program is
>>'winecfg'.
>>
>>As to Excel compatibility, have you tried OpenOffice.org's 'Calc'? That
>>has worked fine for me, so far -- although it may not work if the
>>spread*** has complicated macros or such . . .
>>
>>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. Both Openoffice and Staroffice are excellent, but for
> more advanced stuff they still can't hack it unfortunately. I may try
> crossover office, but would just love to be able to do it with wine... oh
> well, back to the drawing board

If you have Excel 2000 or higher, you will find that native Wine will
not work very well for you, especialy if your Excel spreadsheets use VBA
or complicated macros. The native Wine support is just not there yet.

For people who must use M$ Office in a production environment, I
recommend Codeweavers' Crossover Office. The software licensing cost is
modest, and Codweavers puts a portion of it back into Wine development.

The OpenOffice suite is coming along, but for people who must
interchange native Office files with clients, it doesn't work well enough. 

-- 
Above intended as general commentary, not specific legal
advice.  Your mileage may vary.
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