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From: Joshua Lokken <joshua@twobirds.us>
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Subject: Re: MS Excel/Word compatible ports?
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* Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> [2004-04-13 06:41]:
> I know, I know, I could probably find the answer to this question myself, but I
> thought I'd save myself the time and trouble.  :-)

Looks like someone already pointed out the flaw in that logic ;)

 
> Does anyone know of any ports in the ports collection that can read/write/edit
> MS Excel/Word files?  I need this for a project I've been assigned at work.
> 

I didn't see it mentioned yet, but AbiWord2 handles .docs.  It is
considerably smaller (everything's considerably smaller) than OO, but
doesn't include the full suite, just Word.

/usr/ports/editors/AbiWord2

HTH,

-- 
Joshua

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