[ILUG] Disappointment with OpenOffice

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

<quote who="Timothy Murphy">
> I had to edit a rather large Excel file.
> Following excellent (no pun intended) advice from ILUG,
> I converted the file under Windows to CSV format,
> and edited that under Linux.
> This solved the problem completely.
> When I transferred the file back to Windows
> it came up perfectly in Excel,
> though the formatting commands (centering columns, etc)
> were lost, but they were easily re-installed.
>
> However, I tried editing the .xls file in OpenOffice under Linux,
> and was really quite disappointed with the result.
> In fact I didn't trust the program, and so gave up using it.
>
> For example, when I edited one line in the Excel file,
> another line was also affected, at least in the display.
> And the little text-window at the top
> where one can make changes in cells
> was displaced downwards, so I could only see the tops of letters.
>
> Finally, when I tried to save the file
> I was told it could not be saved in Excel format,
> but only in some special OpenOffice format.
> This didn't really concern me, as I had decided by then
> that I didn't trust the Excel output.
>
> Sad ...

Open Office < > MS Office only seems to work well with simple documents. I
ran into similar issues last year with spreadsheets using formulae.


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