[GLLUG] Crossover office

Clay Dowling clay at lazarusid.com
Wed Jul 12 14:41:57 EDT 2006


eric.hein at us.army.mil said:
> Greetings all,
>
> 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
> however be 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.

Make your life easier and use OpenOffice.  It will save to MS Office
format and it generally works better.  The Calc application at least is a
much better Excel than Excel is.

Clay
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