[Bryn-gwlad] Michelle Baiocchi - open Excel

[tmcd@panix.com]

On Sat, 13 May 2006, Ferguson <ferg620 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> You can download a program called OpenOffice, free, from Sun
> Microsystems.  Their answer to Microsoft's Office.  It will do
> everything Office does, including open Excel, for free.

Well, yes and no.  OpenOffice.org is close to Microsoft Office, but
I've hit different substantial bugs in each of the last three releases
(2.0.[012]).  I use OOo to read files on Linux, and I save an Excel
spreadsheet in ASCII, but I don't edit files in OOo.  It's a pity --
I have hopes that some work will make OOo a drop-in replacement --
but I don't feel I can rely on it yet.

Danielis Lincolnia
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Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com