RE: [libreoffice-users] SkyDrve: A Tool for Forensics around MS Office <-> LibreOffice conversion issues

The purpose of my post was to suggest SkyDrive as an economical approach for non-Office/-Windows 
users who have an MS Office document they need to deal with and they need to be able to describe 
their problem to those on this and other lists.  (It is also a way to get around the inability to 
have attachments on posts to this list.)  You can also put ODF documents, text documents, screen 
captures, etc., on SkyDrive, although they can't be edited through the browser.  You can also limit 
permissions on who can see the material and what they can do with it.

I would think SkyDrive is easier to try first before going into more elaborate ways of running MS 
Office on non-Windows/non-Mac platforms (or purchasing it for a Windows platform that may be 
underpowered or even unsupported for the version you'd need).  It also seems to provide a very 
reliable MS Office presentation, and provides warnings when the presentation is limited in some way.

For my forensic work and running of beta releases, I use the Virtual Machine approach myself, 
although my host system is a hot Windows 7 machine for this kind of work.  There are many 
alternative variations, as Tom indicates.

The one line in my post about viewers seems to have derailed folks from my main point: Windows Live 
SkyDrive does not require Windows nor does it require MS Office and it provides in-browser viewing 
of MS Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint (and OneNote).  You can edit also, but not with full 
functionality, so it might not be possible to contrive problematic documents there.  Using SkyDrive 
you can at least see the Office documents that are problematic for you in LibreOffice and show 
other users what the problem is with regard to importing or exporting.  

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk] 
<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/msg05533.html>
Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 00:28
To: users@libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] SkyDrve: A Tool for Forensics around MS Office <-> LibreOffice 
conversion issues

If you need Windows then try Wine first.  The Wine forums describe how to get MS Office working in 
Wine although i am not certain that they include the latest
(2010) release.  If you are on linux then there is also "Play on linux" that gives Wine a prettier 
front-end and some tweaks.  I would try Wine first though.  

[ ... ]

My normal work-around nowadays for seeing how things look in Windows is to email it to my boss and 
ask him what he thinks.  Or i sneakily save it on the network and access it from another machine 
using a login i shouldn't know.  

[ ... ]


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