Re: Anyone tried Word 97 under Wine in FreeBSD
From: J'm Sm'th (smith.house_at_sbcglobal.clothes.net)
Date: 07/30/05
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Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 15:00:33 GMT
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:38:40 GMT
"Al C." <acanton_nospam@takeout_adams-blake.com_nospam> wrote:
> Has anyone run MS Word 97 with WINE? Maybe using Winetools:
> http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/
>
> I'm looking to switch to FreeBSD but I must have ability to run Word 97. I
> use OO for most things but I get some heavily formatted docs (usually RFP
> and bid requests) from state government and OO 1.x chokes.
>
> Word is a MUST for my business, otherwise I will stick with Linux and
> Crossover Office for the few Word docs I get that OO won't render.
>
> (I'm hoping that the final release of OO2 will have more compatibility with
> Word. The beta is still to buggy for business use.)
I haven't. Our company evaluated SuSe Linux and crossover with Word
97, but really wasn't usable enough for our purposes.
-- J'm Sm'th
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