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

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There should be a file called setup in the
/usr/local/OpenOffice or wherever the final install is. 
Each user shoudl run this, and it will set everything up
so that user can run Star Office appropriately.  That is
the only way to do a network install properly.

Justin
> 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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