On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Kali McLaughlin wrote:

> We have been using Star Office running under Linux to translate M$
> documents with some success. All was well until the latest versions of
> the spreadsheets. Are these Claytons windows programs available in
> Linux?

  "Claytons?"  What's that?  
  Doing a search on http://www.google.com/linux for "Excel 
spreadsheet Clayton" wasn't any help... 2 irrelevant hits.

  If you're asking if there is a version of QuickBooks that 
runs natively in Linux... not yet.  I haven't seen anything 
specific that Excel is porting QuickBooks to Linux, but in 
light of their recent activity, it wouldn't surprise me at 
all:  http://linuxpr.com/releases/4738.html

  I don't know if this is of any help or not, but going to 
the spreadsheet app of Star Office 5.2, and hitting the 
"Save As" button gives me Windows file format options of 

Microsoft Excel 97/2000
Microsoft Excel 95
Microsoft Excel 5.0

  Doing the same thing in OpenOffice 6.4.1 the first option 
now looks like

Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP

  I don't know if that answers your question specifically, 
or if you've tried OpenOffice yet, but it does seem to 
indicate that file format compatibility capabilities are 
being kept current.

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Steve Ackman
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