Re: [[newbie] word processing and finance apps]

1999-08-16 Thread Michael Scottaline
pete moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book balancing programs to use for linux? i am used to ms word, so i would like something that has comparable features. also, i tried to run cbb (checkbook balancer) that comes with mandrake 6

Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Ty Mixon
There's Star Office (www.stardivision.com) as an office suite (it's what I use, but it's a bit quirky). And I have Gnucash (www.gnucash.org ?) which is ok, but I miss M$Money 99. Check out www.linuxberg.com and www.freshmeat.org. -- Ty Mixon e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:26147713 >>

Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Rick Fry
The rumor mill reports that Intuit may be working on a Linux version of Quicken and you've got WordPerfect 8 [download version] on one of the 5 disks that came with Mandrake. Original Message Follows anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book balancing prog

Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Ben
You could try staroffice..It's an entire office suite for linux. In fact, if you are familiar with spreadsheets, you could make your own simple check registry. - Original Message - From: pete moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 16, 1999 8:30 PM Subject:

RE: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On 17-Aug-99 pete moss wrote: > anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book > balancing programs to use for linux? i am used to ms word, so i would > like something that has comparable features. also, i tried to run cbb > (checkbook balancer) that comes with mandrake

Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Murray Strome
WordPerfect 8.0 is a reasonably good wordprocessor (and free for LINUX: http://linux.corel.com/linux8/download.htm) -- the only problem I have found so far is that "Search and Replace does not seem to work (no matter what you search for, it says string not found -- anyone any ideas how to fix tha

Re: [newbie] word processing and finance apps

1999-08-16 Thread Dan Brown
From: pete moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > anyone got any suggestions on what word processing or simple check book > balancing programs to use for linux? i am used to ms word, so i would As far as a word processor goes, how about WordPerfect? Version 7 is available for Linux, free for non-comme