I open word and excel files with Star Office quite often.  I don't know 
about 'large' files, but just small files seems to work fine for me.

Jon

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Jim Hale wrote:

> How about StarOffice? Anyone have experience with that? :)
> 
> We were looking at the possibility of using it at the Hospital to cut
> down on the M$ Licenses that we have to have to stay legal.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jim Hale
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> 
> Have you tried OpenOffice?  I Can't speak about large Excel files, but 
> the current version seems to be very stable and I've had no problems 
> opening MS files.  Check:
> 
> http://www.openoffice.org/
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Flannigan wrote:
> 
> >My brief foray into Linux was more than a year ago.  I installed RedHat
> 
> >version 7.  I left it and returned to Windows when the Excel-like 
> >program in Linux (free version) would not open my large (20,000+ row) 
> >Excel files.  It tried to, but gave an error that I no longer remember.
> 
> >Has anybody had any luck importing large, single worksheet Excel files 
> >that have more than 20,000 records (rows)?
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> >Mike Flannigan
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