[ken in texas]

In any event, save yourself money by using the OpenOffice suite instead of MS Office, regardless of platform. For 99+% of the users, it does everything you need.

I would suggest that it's 99% of home users. For some of us (even at home), the capabilities available via macros and functions in VBA are worth the expense.

[kevkrom]

OpenOffice has macros and functions, too. You'd have to rewrite any existing ones, as while it also uses a form of BASIC, the APIs are soemwhat different, but that's a one-time porting cost.

There's also a repository of OpenOffice macros.