Re: Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Priit Laes wrote:

> Ühel kenal päeval, L, 2009-06-27 kell 16:30, kirjutas Konstantin
> Tokarev:
> > Hello,
> > Thank you very much for Gnumeric! I started using it about 1.5 years ago (it was 1.8.2 shipped with 
> > Fluxbuntu 7.10) and I think it's the best spreadsheet software in the world!
> > But I also think there's no worthy replacement OpenOffice.org Writer. It would seem very nice if I could 
> > to insert Gnumeric charts and tables directly into Writer. Will it become possible someday?
>
> You could try out Abiword if you want something small and fast...

Abiword may be fine if you want a free-software word processor in
its own right.  But many of us who have to work with
word-processor documents and spreadsheets have to interoperate
with Microsoft Office-using colleagues.  Gnumeric is good at that
task, Abiword is not, by a long way.

Allin Cottrell