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On 24/12/10 17:26, Philip Hudson wrote: > QuickBooks for them. How do you get the transfer to FOSS for the school, when they need to have MS Excel to co-operate with QuickBooks to export any spreadsheet or report. QuickBooks does not talk to any spreadsheet or save as 'spreadsheet readable' . It must open MS Excel to export! I believe, unproven but hinted at, from enquiries that the 'annual payment' retainer by MS to QB locks them into exporting only to a MS Excel program on the same computer! One company had FOSS on all systems (mostly Linux) except accounts dept. who had to have a Windows computer and MS Excell to go with their Quickbooks. (Historically they used QB before moving the rest of company to Gnu/Linux FOSS systems and compatability with past record made them keep Quick+Books.) -- Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq