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I install it through Wine Windows Program Loader rather than Playonlinux. I used Playonlinux for games.
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You can double click it or right click and have easy access to the Microsoft Office Document.
But I recommend to you to used Libre Office which is default of Ubuntu and it's easier to use and have plenty nice feature compared to Microsoft Office. ...
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Many thanks, it works fine and it is really fantastic.
Just a little update for the shortcut script to make it work perfectly :
$(echo "$@" | sed -e 's:/*/:\\\:g')
instead of $(echo "$@" | sed -e 's:/*/:\:g')
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LibreOffice is, uhm, not very famous for interoperability with Microsoft Office.
I recommend for your project using FreeOffice by SoftMaker. It's free, very fast, needs only 57MB disk space, and shows brilliant compatibilty to Microsoft Office.
If you don't want to have the Microsoft Office files of your group messed up, and you want them to open your ...
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There'll never play along, my suggestion is, if you have to use MS Office for work, USE IT, don't waste your time and energy, I tried once and never worked out. Play on Linux can run Office 2007 with some limitations.
If the documents are simple text documents (Single page), in LibreOffice use .doc format, and avoid anything else but arial 10. Don't use ...
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From being semi-active in the LibreOffice support areas, I have seen numerous references to .docx, .pptx and .xlsx (the MS Office 2007+ versions) having a few problems currently, and that for best collaboration with MS users, the original formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt) should be used, as the exporting techniques used provide greater compatibility than .docx, ...
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You should be able to move these files to Ubuntu, but a lot will depend on the the files and your skills. Like all projects, you should think carefully about what your future requirements will be.
Using LibreOffice to an mdb file to an odb file
You said the files were "way back on Windows XP", so presumably they are mdb files. Access used mdb as the file ...
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I have found saving my libre office docs in the older ms word 97 format works best, it gives the .doc extension instead of the 2007 .docx extension.
same thing with powerpoint ppt instead of the pptx
in libre office I set the options to save in that format by default.
I have ms office 2007 at work and don't seem to have a problem going back and forth with ...
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