[NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and MS-Access

[MontyS@videopost.com]

Speaking of Open Office...

I have it loaded on my Red Hat 7.3 box.  The install is not very friendly,
so it seems.

I install it as root, and under root it works fine.  It even shows up in the
KDE menu structure.  A wonderful thing.  However, under the other users I
have on the box, nothing works until I copy some obscure dotted file over to
the home directory of the various users(I don't know the name of the file.
I'm not where the box is.).  Also, none of the options are in the KDE menu
structure.

The same problem happened on the Star Office version before they migrated to
Open Office.

I looked through their help files on the open office website, but couldn't
find anything that addresses this issue.

Anyone else have this problem, or am I missing something horribly simple?

Thanks,

Monty

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Tom Woody [SMTP:woody at nfri.com]
	Sent:	Friday, July 19, 2002 10:12 AM
	To:	discuss at ntlug.org
	Subject:	Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Alternative to MS Excel and
MS-Access

	I have had good experience with Star Office (on Windows and on
Linux).  Some features of Excel and Word don't translate very well into Star
Office, but otherwise it works very well.  It would primarily depend on the
features used in the spreadsheets that he would need to work on.  I have
never installed the DB portion of Star Office (MySQL works perfectly for
me).

	On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:30:37 -0500
	"Rengasamy, Samy" <srengasamy at firstam.com> wrote:

	> A friend of mine wants an alternative to his windoze centric
	> systems. His office mostly uses MS-Excel and MS-Access.
	> 
	> I was going to suggest Open Office and Postgresql, on Linux.
	> 
	> What are your suggestions?
	> 
	> Thanks,
	> 
	> Samy Rengasamy.
	> 


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