I found that with both version 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 of OpenOffice the basic
spreadsheet used cells that were incredibly small and the text size was equally
small to fit the cells. This led me to have to reformat the sheet prior to use
so that I could see what I was doing.
I have therefore reverted to version 3.4.1 which does not have this "problem".
Furthermore this version has an constant SUM function at the bottom of the
screen which automatically shows the total of whichever cells have been
selected. I find this very useful.
I will watch for future versions to see if the above have been remedied.
A. Roske