Claude Jones wrote: > On Thursday June 21 2007 4:53:39 am Gary Stainburn wrote: >> What I want to know is is it possible to use wine to run MS Word and Excel >> from my NTFS formatted Win-XP. Ideally I'd like to be able to update >> documents on the NTFS drive too, but that's not essential. > > If you're saying you want to be booted up in Linux, and be able to run the > executables for Word and Excel that are installed on your WinXP partition, > the answer is no. CXOffice which is the commercial version of Wine, runs $40 > for the basic edition, and does a very nice job of installing Office in > Windows, however. If you must have Office running in Linux, I recommend you > download their demo and check it out for yourself > I have a similar setup. I use ntfs-3g to be able to read and write to my NTFS drive, but instead of using MS office, I use Openoffice to read and write my Word/Excel documents. I've had very little trouble in the way of import/formatting problems and most of those were easy to rectify. Maybe this will work for you. -- Da mihi sis bubulae frustrum assae, solana tuberosa in modo gallico fricta, ac quassum lactatum coagulatum crassum Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
