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 > --- > http://hale.dyndns.org > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Behalf Of Frederic Herman > Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 12:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Large Excel Files > > > 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)? > > > > > >Mike Flannigan > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Redhat-list mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The KnowHow Network Tech Suppot Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Totally Free Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also Find A Technical Discussion Forum on Our Web Site http://www.knowhownet.net What Would You Like to Know? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list