On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 15:28 +0100, Liloulinx wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Paul Smith" <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> > To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:51 AM > Subject: Re: MS office Under Linux > > > > On 12/26/06, Edward Dekkers <edward@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > "Crossover Office" is not free. > >> > I have tryed to install MS-office with Wine but I encontoured a > >> > problem. > >> > Is there any things or an other tool to add in order to solve this > >> > problem. > >> > Liloulinx > >> > >> Two real options if you don't want to pay: > >> > >> 1> Use OpenOffice instead. There's a reason MS Office won't run under > >> Linux very well - it wasn't designed for it. I wouldn't hold your breath > >> waiting for Microsoft to make a "Microsoft Office for Linux". > >> > >> 2> Get a virtual machine emulator for Linux, and install Windows and > >> Office under that. > > > > In case you have a fast enough computer and some spare hard disk > > space, then use VMware server, which is free and works fine: > > > > http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ > > > > Paul > > > > Yes I think that I will install VMware. It's very heavy but I haven't the > choice. I need MS-Word because OpenOffice doesn't make a symantic checking. > --- > Liloulinx > I think that there is a grammer checker for OOo that you can install in development. Check the OOo mail list archive for more info or join the OOo mail list and ask there. I used to use a grammer checker in WordPerfect and found that is was more of a pain and took more time than it was worth.