Hal Pomeranz has been waxing poetic about it as well.



Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

 % We had an employee that used Crossover office for dealing with M$  
 % formatted files.  It worked well.  He had only good things to say  
 % about it.
 % 
 % Jim
 % 
 % On Feb 12, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Bob Miller wrote:
 % 
 % > Jeff Newton wrote:
 % >
 % >> Now, if I leave (an idea, I'm considering) Linux on it, I would  
 % >> want it to
 % >> be able to do power point presentations with things I do at work  
 % >> as well
 % >> use it for writing as well. I know and have been told can do these  
 % >> both in
 % >> Win98 and XP, but linux?
 % >
 % > You can use OpenOffice.org to create presentations, and you can even
 % > save them in PowerPoint format.  You may not be able to use other
 % > people's PowerPoint presentations in some cases.
 % >
 % > You can install Crossover Office, a commercial version of WINE, and
 % > run PowerPoint itself.  Hal Pomeranz delivered his DNS presentation to
 % > the Corvallis LUG that way last week, and he says it works very well
 % > for him.
 % >
 % > -- 
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