KDE has Ksiag as a spreadsheet and Kword.   I haven't really used them, but
they came w/ my distro. and I just open them up one day to see how they
looked.   They look alot like Office 95.   I think the graphics will be
cleaned up some before the official release of KOffice as a whole suite.
As far as functionality they should be the same as Office 97 and are
supposed to be nearly complete.   Enough so that they are useable unless you
are doing lots of macros or funky templates.   See www.kde.org for details.
Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Mark W. <Mark.Smith@umb.com>

>I bought a copy of Star Office 5.1 complete with manual about 2 months ago
>and use it (the Windows version)as my Office program at work. All I have
had
>much to do with is the word processor though. It works well, a little
>different than Office 97 but most files saved in 97 format convert over
>fine. Some document formatting doesn't convert over verywell though. Lines,
>borders and such. It's slow but so is 97.
>Sorry I can't say much about the spreadsheet program. I've only put
together
>a couple of very simple spreadsheets with it.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: mlee@microlink.net [mailto:mlee@microlink.net]
>Sent: Friday, September 03, 1999 8:48 PM
>To: kclug@kclug.org
>Subject: kclug - staroffice
>
>
>i probably missed it the first time around and it's probably
>old news, but sun acquired staroffice and made binaries of the
>suite available for free download.  check
>
>http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/
>or
>http://www.sun.com/products/staroffice/faq.html
>
>for more info.  has anybody downloaded it and tried it yet?
>i'm particulary interested in the spreadsheet application,
>as i have yet to find anything to replace excel (not saying
>nothing's out there, just that i haven't found anything).
>
>matt
>