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G'day Doug,

In article <ApZa9.17581$MC2.54260@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, 
"Techno-Aussie" <keep.it@the.groups> wrote:
>Just thought I'd let you all know I installed cross over office on a
>Mandrake 7.3 (KDE) system today and apart from a few small hassles... I was
>able to install and use MS Office 2000 on the PC.
>
>Somehow I think Mandrake is NOT the ideal distro for CX because the
>instructions refer to features it does not have! I'm so impressed with this
>installation, I think I'll see how it performs with other flavours of Linux.
>I have at least one client (with 16 PCs) who will be most please to get out
>of the Windows merry go round.
>
>Internet Explorer on Linux? Yes... Well it works OK but the menues have only
>one branch.
>Outlook? Seems to like it OK too!
>
>Excel is the big one and I'm please to say opened a huge data mining
>workbook I simply can't do without (crashes everything but Excel) and it
>works flawlessly.

Why would you even attempt to do "data mining" with a bloody 
spreadsheet?  Isn't that what database programs are for?

>Word... Well I can do without this but for those who can't, it does
>everything I asked ot to do. Import spreadsheets, images and open docs on
>the win_c drive... Even saved them back to the FAT drive. I'm impressed.
>Has anybody else tried Crossover Office?
>Doug


Cheers, Phred.

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