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Original von carlwill

I use thunderbird as an email client and was wondering if any apps in KDE have the ability to open and read Excel / Word attachments if sent to my Fedora Core 2 machine?

Thanks for any info...

IMHO the most mature Open Source office suite is OpenOffice (not a KDE app, you find it at http://www.openoffice.org ).
But there's also koffice that's coming along nicely ( http://www.koffice.org ). I think you will find both packaged in your distro.

or use wine, and install microsofts own free wordvieuwer from www.microsoft.com - works flawless, here.

The is a project named cuckooo that allows Open Office to be embedded in konqueror. So in theory it's possible to take the power of Open Office to view a Word, Excel file or any other file.

I never tryed it and I don't expect it to be fast. From the time you click a file to the time it is shown. Open Office as a reputation of beeing HEAVY and have a slow start.
In fact I suppost that Crossover Office with Word installed should be equaly fast.

if not faster. I'm trying to use Microsoft's Word Viewer (free download from their website). it runs nice under wine. but I cant use it to open files with "open file with..". it needs to be provided with the name like "Y:\test.doc". Y can be mounted (in wine) as for example the desktop. but KDE's open file system gives (of course) /home/superstoned/Desktop/test.doc, which doesnt work... anyone knows how to fix this?

I guess that you need to build some script to do the conversion.

Just an idea I cannot test. Search in wine files for a program called "winepath.exe". If it exists it may help.