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    Exclamation can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    heres the problem.

    my daddy is doing a computer course (ECDL) and he is being taught in microsoft 2003. in the home computer we have ubuntu and the open office. is there any way to get word and excel to look like windows??

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    Quote Originally Posted by zoeokane View Post
    heres the problem.

    my daddy is doing a computer course (ECDL) and he is being taught in microsoft 2003. in the home computer we have ubuntu and the open office. is there any way to get word and excel to look like windows??
    you want to RUN Microsoft Office in Ubuntu? Is that what ur asking?

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    well yes i suppose.

    or can you get it to look like windows excel + word??

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    What's the purpose of making it look exactly like Microsoft Office ? What he's looking for ? Appearance or functionality ?

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    its just my daddy isnt very good with computers. it confuses him because it all looks different, thats why i was wonderin is there was one that looks like it?

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    You might want to try gnumeric.

    Seriously though, if taking a class that teaches Excel then he needs to use Excel.

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    Quote Originally Posted by zoeokane View Post
    my daddy is doing a computer course (ECDL) and he is being taught in microsoft 2003.
    If you are doing a Microsoft course then it does pretty much limit you to buying their software because, yes, it is the looks and not functionality (ECDL is full of pictures of branded software and "third item down" brand-specific instructions).

    If you didn't require the branded looks, then OpenOffice is an excellent package.

    You can get many Microsoft products running under Wine, including Office.

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    Also you may want to try PlayOnLinux (which is a kind of hack of Wine) or VirtualBox, by which you can install Windows and than MS Office. I recommend you to watch this how-to-video.

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    Re: can you get spreadsheets like microsoft excel 2003 on ubuntu?

    Thanks guys!

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