On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:34:54 +0200 Came this utterance formulated by ____ ______ to my mailbox:
> > I work with Microsoft Excel 2003 and I have a big database > (calculation of pay-envelope) of my enterprise. But it is so big that > it will crash soon. So I need to choose either Microsoft Excel 2007 or > OpenOffice.org Calc, but I don_t know features and limitation of > OpenOffice.org Calc such as Microsoft Excel 2003/2007. Please, prepare > and make this information to see differences between MS Office Excel > and OpenOffice Calc to do correct choice. It for the whole next year > of my work. > Spreadsheets are not ideal for database use. That is what databases are for. Look at Base instead of Calc. http://www.openoffice.org/product/base.html http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/index.html especially: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/userguide3/0108GS3-GettingStartedWithBase.pdf http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Tutorials -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org