On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 17:02, Arjuna Anandanatha wrote: > ///All you need to do is buy Microsoft Office X (latest version, of > course) and you'll have near 100% compatibility between your Excel > and Word documents on both platforms.
...or use any flavor of the free Open Office suite which is often more compatible with some versions of Microsoft Office files than Microsoft Office itself. As someone said before NeoOffice is a good choice. The original Open Office it derives from is quite heavier as it must load a version of the X Windows system when it starts.