Fwd: Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org

[Jim Tarvid <tarvid ls net>]

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From: Jim Tarvid <tarvid ls net>
Date: Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:16 PM
Subject: Re: Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org
To: Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>


On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Allin Cottrell<cottrell wfu edu> wrote:
> 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

For incoming documents, I often rely on Google.

When I need more than text, I use Kompozer.

When I need more than HTML, I use Prince and boom.css

It's hard to beat R for graphs.

When I spend more time and effort on the tool than on the expression,
I look for another tool.

One incompatibility I found between Gnumeric and Excel was "ceil" and "ceiling".

Jim

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