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

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MontyS at videopost.com wrote:

> 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?
>
Have you tried Open Office 1.0.1 which just came out?  I installed it 
and was surprised that this time, it actually installed under 
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0, and when each user runs setup, it only 
installs the components needed for each user in their home directory, 
but leaves the programs under the /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.0 
directory.  So far, it Seems to work well for me.

--JCR