Re: Just to be very clear about Office

Chris Swenson <[email protected]>
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Even MS Office doesn't fully support the standard OOXML...

– Chris


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Robert Isaac <[email protected]> wrote:

> > You will find the user interface
> > different.  It is capable of reading and writing microsoft file
> > formats,
>
> OpenOffice still doesn't write OOXML and there is very little macro
> compatibility
> with Excel.
>
> > I dn't know what to do if you want to run Microsoft Office on a Linux
> system.
> > Rumours are that it can be run on Wine to some extent.
>
> Older versions, yes, newer versions not so much.
> Buy a Windows license with the MS Office license and run them in a vm.
>
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