Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +0000, Tyler Smith wrote:
> Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience
> using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? If it is
> possible to produce true, well-formatted .doc files this way then it
> will definitely be an improvement over hunting down a computer running
> Word under MSWindows to check my submissions. But it needs to be
> completely identical to regular Word - if I have to check the
> crossover/wine Word version with native Word I won't have saved any
> time. Is this possible? Any other suggestions regarding producing true
> .doc formats without resorting to installing Windows would be welcome,
> but in this case OpenOffice is definitely not good enough. It's great,
> of course, but not when it comes to exchanging .doc files with
> critical formatting intact.
A couple of years ago, I discovered that the MS Word Viewer worked great
under Wine. If you just want to inspect formatting that would help you, and
it's way lighter-weight than Word itself.
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