On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:30:57 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone have any intense experience with openoffice, in particular, > the spreadsheet? I used to use StarOffice 5.2 but gave it up in favor > of vi and Excel (running under win4lin). (Obviously, I don't have to > exchange text documents at work, just spreadsheets.) I was never happy > with the spreadsheet in SO. The spreadsheet in staroffice didn't have > built in functions for data analysis, as far as I could find, and was > awkward in other ways, not nearly as nice as Excel. And, I had to have > painless compatibility with Excel. I just got an excel spreadsheel that did all kind of funny lookups via excel functions. I did not expect it to work in OO 1.0. Well, it did. Perfectly. As I understand it, OO 1.0 has most all the excel functions, as well as a BASIC scripting language. I don't know how/if the BASIC matches what people would use in excel, but the functions are supposed to be compatible. -- +============================+===============================+ | Roger Oberholtzer | E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | OPQ Systems AB | WWW: http://www.opq.se/ | | Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 | Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 | | 115 32 Stockholm | Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 | | Sweden | Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 | +============================+===============================+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
