[GLLUG] Crossover office

[eric.hein at us.army.mil]

Great, thanks for the input.  I'll go about setting it up on trial then, and see if it meets her needs.

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From: Mark Szidik/mlc <SzidikM at mlcnet.org>
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:41 am
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Crossover office

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> I use Crossover to run Lotus Notes client - it runs very well - 
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> weeks at a time without a crash.  I have used MS Office XP as 
> well, it
> works more or less as expected, but Access does not work well.   
> In my
> opinion Crossover is a good package, I have been using it for a 
> few years
> and like it more than running VMWare to run Windows Apps under Linux.
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> Greetings all,
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> Is there much experience out there with crossover office packages? 
> My wife
> is an at home medical transcriptionist.  All of her clients 
> require MS
> Office documents, so ditching MS Office is not an option.  I would 
> howeverbe interested in ditching windows on her machine.  The only 
> truly windows
> specific app she uses is MS Office.  Is Crossover Office generally
> considered a quality and easy to use package.  The wife is 
> reluctant to
> change things (more reluctant to learn new things).  I have a laptop
> available to keep her up and running at the status quo during any
> transition as well.
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> any input?
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> Thanks
> Eric
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