[TriLUG] StarOffice/OpenOffice

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 12:15 pm, you wrote:
> >In general any distro will work well. The apps are what most folks refer
> > to when they think of MS compatibility.  Use Abiword for your doc's and
> > gnumeric for spreadsheets and folks will never know that you aren't
> > plugged into MS-Office.
>
> HA!  From a low level standpoint, Star(/Open)Office 5.2 has FAR better
> Excel 97+ support then gnumeric.  In fact the gnumeric Excel plugin is
> based on Excel 95.  (And yet I would know this at a very low level
> http://poi.sourceforge.net)..

It's kind of eerie how the document icons are so familiar, at least in 5.1.

BTW, is it worth the effort to upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2?  Switch to Open?

>
> -Andy
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