[ILUG] Small office project

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Chris Higgins wrote:

> >myself) and I know of no linux prog which will open *.xls.
> 
> HUH?
> 
> StarOffice 5.2
> StarOffice 6.0 (beta)
> Applixware
> Kspread
> 
> And that's just what I've got locally !

<somewhat_embarrased>

hmm, I'd actually forgotten staroffice, mainly out of hatred for it.  I
had a copy of v5 from when Sun posted CDs out.  It was almost quicker to
reboot into windows.  I gather it has improved though.  The others I didn't
know of.  cool.

I still maintain that totally ditching windows *initially* may be a bad
plan.  I know that in a rush, I reach for Photoshop ahead of The Gimp,
simply cos I'm more practiced with it and in a hurry I need that.  Hence
'til you really know how to do stuff quickly you need to, I wouldn't 
recommend wiping as you might regret not being abble to reboot back into 
windows for 5 minutes some time.

Gavin