MSOffice usage comfort: Wine or VM+Rdesktop?

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
<mihamina at rktmb.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My boss obliges me to use MSword for writing some core business documents.
>
> I have then the choice (duh!) either to:
> - Wine

Generally, it takes wine some time to mature. Until quite recently you
couldn't run Office 2010 under wine at all, and looking at the links
from:
  http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=31
I'd say Office 2010 would still not be pleasant to use on Wine.

If you have to use MS Office, but have flexibility as to which version
you use, you could run an older version. Office 2007 has basic support
in Wine, and has the same format as Office 2010. However, only Office
2000 has "Gold Support" in Crossover office. 2000 *should* be pleasant
to use in Wine and you can use the official compatibility pack to read
2007/2010 files. Using a version 2003 or older has the advantage of
avoiding the new and "improved" ribbon interface. I recall 2000 as
being quite mature. '97 was pretty good too, but it isn't able to run
Heroforge Iirc.

I find the Word compatibility in LO a bit annoying. A form that is 3
pages in Word, shows up as about 3.2 pages in LO.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted