I don't agree open office calc is pretty much identical to excel, before I retired the only major difference I found was the number of rows in excel was much bigger, and even that may have changed in the 10 years since, I never now need to have millions of rows in a spreadsheet. Even when I did have the need it was because people were using excel in ways that they should not have done.
On Mon, 3 May 2021, at 14:34, Brian Barker wrote: > At 13:09 03/05/2021 +0100, Brian Barnard wrote: > >Subject: Excel equivalent > > It is a mistake to think that any software product is the equivalent > of any other. OpenOffice's spreadsheet function ("Calc") is not > offered as an equivalent of Microsoft Excel. It would be equally > unhelpful to approach Microsoft Excel as an equivalent of OpenOffice. > > >In your spreadsheet handler ... > > Er, it's OpenOffice's, not mine. > > >... I recently tried to edit a column of literals (all numeric) but > >your find and replace would not replace the characters that I > >entered with the new ones. In the same column were alphabetic > >literals and I could replace these with no problem. > > I cannot reproduce this. If you are handling literals which happen to > be entirely numeric, you should presumably take care to ensure that > they are stored in Text and not Number format. This is a matter of > knowing how to design a spreadsheet and how to enter and save values, > not about the facilities available. But in any case, I see that Find > & Replace will process individual digits even in numerical values, > even toggling values between Number and Text format as necessary. So > I do not see your difficulty and you may have to be clearer about > exactly what doesn't work for you. > > >As a result of this I have had to buy Office 2019 and uninstall Open Office > > Well, you are perfectly entitled to make such a decision - and you > are welcome to do so. But this is surely not a result of your failure > to solve your problem in OpenOffice. And if you are happy using > Microsoft Office, I'm not sure what help you are requesting from the > OpenOffice Users list. (And you don't have to remove OpenOffice in > order to install and use Microsoft Office anyway.) > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Best Regards Robin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org