On Friday 24 May 2002 12:46, you wrote: > There should be features to help such a transfer -- Excel and Lotus > have them, not sure about Gnumeric and Kspread.
On Sat May 25th , you wrote: >Wow, very disappointing! >I did some testing on your 57 kb file on KSpread 1.1 on Mandrake >8.1, on >a 700 MHz machine (AMD) with 256 MB of memory. (With about 280 rows >The file took around 30 seconds to load. >It was easy to convert the file to Gnumeric and comma delimited f>ormat. >I don't have Gnumeric on the machine so I couldn't try it. >I took the comma delimited file to my Windows 95 machine -- 300 >MHz., 64 >MB memory, Excel 97. Loaded the file into Excel, saved it as a >native >Excel file (.xls) -- quit Excel, opened Excel, loaded the .xls file >in >about 1 second. >I did try something else -- I did try two other things: > * I tried importing the comma delimited file back into KSpread, >and >it was significantly faster. It took about 10 seconds of machine >time >to load up, but this consisted of two 5-second periods -- an >intermediate menu comes up halfway through the load to allow you to >specify any necessary options -- you can just hit enter. > * I saved the imported comma delimited file from KSpread as a .ksp >file, and then loaded it -- it took about 14 seconds, and the >difference >between that and the original 30 seconds may be an indication of the >extra time due to colors. Well I do have gnumeric on my machine and I opened the kspread file in kspread and saved as gnumeric file , which I then opened in gnumeric. About 1.5 seconds. However it was not flawless. the 50total,89total,and 200toal columns were duds, every figure gone. I also remade the colour scheme which is not so delightfully sensitive as kspread and does not look so nice, however the saved file reopened in gnumeric in about 1.5seconds. I would say the developers at kde resposible for kspread need to look into this urgently. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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