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From: gnumeric-list-bounces gnome org on behalf of Jim Tarvid
Sent: Fri 7/10/2009 11:17 AM
To: gnumeric-list gnome org
Subject: Fwd: Gnumeric and OpenOffice.org
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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
>
Yeah but some of us need a decent equation editor which MS Word and Open Office lack by a long way :-)
Cheers!
Martin