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------- Additional comments from kke...@openoffice.org Wed Jun 3 19:47:32 +0000 2009 ------- Andrew, ---- If, in the real world, you are trying to use OpenOffice as an Excel substitute, then I recommend that you do not. As I have said time and again, "If you need Excel, use Excel". ---- I know you have said so before, but I find this comment very strange because OpenOffice is primarily and explicitly *advertised* as a Microsoft Office replacement. You see the banner every time you install Java, for instance. If this statement really was true, then the solution actually is very simple: remove the Excel support altogether. According to your statement, it's not needed anyway, and it is broken anyway. But if you leave the Excel support in, then it absolutely *must* work. Reliably. Every time. Re. the second comment: more importantly, I answered philhibbs' question about "how users do it without realizing" I identified what to my knowledge nobody had done before: why this issue arises so frequently in the first place. You can call it a feature or a misfeature or whatever you like. What bothers me most about all this isn't actually the bug itself. What bothers me is the absolute willful unresponsiveness of the OpenOffice team to a very obvious user demand - with the seventh anniversary coming up in a few days - just based on some ivory-tower idea of "Excel is wrong". And then people wonder why Linux on the Desktop isn't taking off. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sc.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sc.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
