[plug] open office

[W.Kenworthy]

In practice - maybe.

Better questions would be does OO do everything I want to do, and how
compatible with excel do I need to be?

I find it reasonably compatible for lightweight use (office type
spreadsheets) - deal with a lot of office docs sent to me.  One "nice"
gotcha last year was when saving in OO it undeleted a whole lot of
history (deleted worksheets) in one file I returned - didnt that cause
some consternation until it was explained!

Gnumeric is somewhat better in many ways as it doesnt try to be an excel
clone.  Things like 64000 columns and usablity are better for what I do.

Basicly, if I am dealing with excel files I will use OOcalc unless I run
into size restrictions, otherwise gnumeric.  I think OO handles some
excel charts and graphics whereas gnumeric doesnt.

I still have to keep access to a copy of excel for some files.  OO2
seems better, but I have not used it as extensively yet.

BillK


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 11:04 +0800, Alex Polglaze wrote:
> G'day All,
> 
> Now here's a question.
> 
> Is Open Office spreadsheet as good as Excel?
> 
> 
> Alex
> _______________________________________________
> PLUG discussion list: plug at plug.org.au
> http://www.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/plug
> Committee e-mail: committee at plug.linux.org.au