[ale] (MS)Office viewer recommendations

[Ken Cochran]

I'm looking for, say, an OSX analog of what M$ offers for
Windows, read-only, printing would be nice, not (at least not
yet) a full-blown thing like M$Office/OO.o/NeoO.

-kc

>Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:15:36 -0400
>From: "Sean Craig" <seanccraig at gmail.com>
>To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: Re: [ale] (MS)Office viewer recommendations
>
>For windows M$ actually offers free viewers for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
>I do like using OpenOffice.org though it is difficult to print handouts for
>presentations.
>
>Sean C.
>
>On 9/28/07, Evan Pitstick <bikingnerd at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> There has been a lot of talk about OpenOffice. That is what I would use.
>> It has a great cousin for mac called NeoOffice. They are all open/free
>> and are top quality in my opinion.
>>
>> On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:07 -0400, Ken Cochran wrote:
>> > Hi ALErs:
>> >
>> > Any recommendations (good or bad) for (hopefully free) viewers
>> > for MSWord, Excel & maybe Powerpoint for Linux/BSD, MacOSX &
>> > for that matter, Windows itself?  (as in I don't want to run
>> > MSOffice even on Windows? :) Especially need something for
>> > OSX but I'd think that would likely cover Linux & BSD {shrug}.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > -kc