[Leaplist] OOo question with large numbers

[Kevin Korb]

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There is a big difference in software selection between people who choose
their own and people who have someone choose for them.  If you are the
latter consider yourself lucky you aren't forced to use Windows or
some other closed source crap and move on.

BTW, I prefer gnumeric and lyx over oocalc and oowriter too.

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:13:27 -0800 (PST)
"Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
> Gnumeric is one of the best spreadsheets ever created.
> It's Excel compatibility was outstanding, and had numerous functions.
> It was clearly written by people who wanted power in their spreadsheets.
> Almost as if some people who used Borland Quattro first wrote it in the
> late '90s.
> 
> It's was also outstanding if you have any legacy, column data.
> At least compared to any other solution at the time of Gnumeric's
> release. Sure, I could crank out awk/sed to do a lot of things, but not
> others. MS Excel couldn't do jack, and most people paid $200-300 for a
> program called "Monarch" (IIRC) to get similar in the late '90s.
> 
> I haven't used Gnumeric in a long time since I have largely just adopted
> Calc. I still prefer LyX for numerous publications (and layout with
> Scribus), but I now just do 50% of my writing in Writer as well.  But it
> was definitely the best tool in the Linux world for many years. 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> 
> Ray, this isn't responsive to your question, but have you ever
> considered using gnumeric? I use gnumeric all the time and love it.
> 
> Whether text documents, presentations, or spreadsheets, I've always had 
> trouble with OO. I'm not saying OO's defective -- maybe it's just
> defective user, but I always use LyX instead of OO Writer, and gnumeric
> instead of OO spreadsheet.
> 


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