Office Suite Conundrum

[HDave]

I am getting seriously tired of running MS Office in a virtual machine. It's been about 18 months since I tried running in on Wine, so I just checked out WineHQ and CodeWeavers and apparently usability hasn't improved at all.

I keep trying to use OpenOffice but whenever I open PowerPoint presentations they are always kind of messed up. This week, somebody sent me an MS Word file for printing labels for a mail merge and the label template file opened up blank.

Anybody else have any brilliant work arounds or am I still stuck with my MS Office VirtualBox!!

It's really hard to believe that its 2011 and Linux is still missing a world-class Office Suite...

[andymorton]

Have you tried IBM's Lotus Symphony? I definitely prefer it to Open Office.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home

[Hagar Delest]

Please remember that the MS Office file formats have not been designed to be compatible with anything else than MS Office (and even sometimes, new versions of MSO mess up old MSO files...).

That's why the use of standards like ODF is the key point. And for that, you've OOo. The vanilla version id better than the Ubuntu version IMHO.

[HDave]

Have you tried IBM's Lotus Symphony? I definitely prefer it to Open Office.

http://symphony.lotus.com/software/lotus/symphony/home.nsf/home

I haven't...will give it a spin...