I recently installed Kubuntu on my wife's laptop. She's used to Windows, and I want to make her transition as seamless as possible. Plasma is nice as is, and it felt similar enough to Windows for her to be happy with. One thing she was concerned about was her ability to use MSOffice on Linux, as she's required to use it for her school assignments. My suggestion was that she try using Office 365 online for a little while, and if she didn't like it we would look into getting her a new computer. I would like to make it feel like she's just opening another application when she opens up Office 365 online. Is there a way to write a script and associate it with a desktop/taskbar icon or start menu selection to have a browser open up signed in and directly into Excel/Word/whatever she needs, and minimize the browser decorations (i.e. tab area, url-area etc.) The hope is to get her as close to feeling like she's using the native desktop application as possible.
I've installed MS Office 2007 in Ubuntu 12.04 using Wine 1.4 with no problems, and it works fine with the English Language. However, I need to use it to work with Arabic and Hebrew, and it doesn't work when I switch to a Hebrew or Arabic keyboard. The typing gets reversed.
I saw an earlier post for something similar, but it is closed and I think it was for the earlier Wine 1.3. Supposedly Wine 1.4 has added RTL -- is there a way to get it working?
I'm a web developer, but new to linux. I am currently running ubuntu 11.10 with a gnome shell and wine (I think 1.3). I've installed microsoft office 2007, and worked through a small issue with powerpoint not running. So one little issue left, I can't save files, and I can't open files.
I've checked all over the various forums, and haven't found a solution yet. I haven't yet tried to completely uninstall wine and start from scratch (I haven't done that because I've actually got photoshop working, whoo!)
Anyways, would truly appreciate some help.
Can I open Microsoft Word and Excel files with Ubuntu?
I am doing some marking that requires me to open .docx file created using Microsoft Office 2007+. OpenOffice doesn't seem to be doing a good job for it, so far, hid all the images in the documents. Any idea if there is a program that is guaranteed to open .docx file correctly? Please pay attention to the word "guaranteed", because otherwise I might not be fair to the students.