Open Office and / or Libre Office

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2011/12/7 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> On 7 December 2011 16:49, Bill Stanley <bstanle at wowway.com> wrote:
>>> I too have had buggy issues with openoffice.org and libreoffice.  I
>>> never thought to uninstall the default install and reinstall from the
>>> originals.  I just finally said to hell with it and installed XP in
>>> virtualbox and run M$ Office out of there.
>>
>> Horrors!!!  You heathen.
>>
>> ( Just joking. )
>
> [*Grin*]
>
> I run Word 95 inside TinyXP inside VirtualBox myself - but these days,
> Word 97 works so well under ordinary WINE that I never use the
> VirtualBox version any more.

That's interesting, because I never managed to run Office '97 well in
Windows 98 many years ago…