>>We've never bought or isntalled Office at ARS. We've never "HAD" to buy any proprietary software.
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>What do you use instead?
One option I find very attractive is StarOffice. The basic version is free. This one uses its own proprietary format, but it can open (and write to) most versions of MS-Office, up to Office 2000.
If I remember correctly, the URL is
www.sun.com/staroffice.
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
