[GLLUG] Crossover office

[Caleb Cushing]

in all fairness access doesn't work that well on windows ;-)

On 7/12/06, eric.hein at us.army.mil <eric.hein at us.army.mil> wrote:
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> 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.
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> > 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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