There's a Word reader avaiable for download from MS. It's not the same as Quickview. They upgrade it from time to time according to file format, but it's a full-featured read-only MS Word viewer. I haven't tried it for Excel.
-- -j On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Dustin Puryear wrote: > Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 15:19:19 -0500 > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] WINE > > john beamon wrote: > > > The motherload, indeed! Quicken on WINE. Jeez. I opened a Word 2000 doc > > in Abiword a couple days ago. Nautilus actually had a file association, > > so it just required a double-click. Came right up. Time for the world > > to mail a billion cd's back to Redmond. > > > Well, I still use the Windows 98 install for the .dll's needed by wine, > but I'm happy it even works. > > > > we could **READ** them on any OS we wanted. When you think about it, > > sending the editable copy of a company doc around to people who have to > > use the editor to read it is just silly. > > > Actually, you don't need the full Office suite to read those. Windows > comes with a quick reader for most Word and possibly Excel document. I > think they are called "Quick View" readers. > > Regards, Dustin > > ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================ <!-- body="end" --> <hr noshade> <ul> <li><strong>Next message:</strong> John Hebert: "RE: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Previous message:</strong> Dustin Puryear: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>In reply to:</strong> Dustin Puryear: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Next in thread:</strong> John Hebert: "Re: [brluglist] WINE" <li><strong>Messages sorted by:</strong> [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ] </ul> <hr noshade> <small> <em> This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : <em>Thu Sep 06 2001 - 11:10:54 CDT</em> </em> </small> </body> </html>
