[wplug] the best spreadsheet for Linux

Alexandros Papadopoulos apapadop at cmu.edu
Sun Dec 1 20:15:03 EST 2002


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On Sunday 01 December 2002 19:55, Paul Cantalupo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to find the best Excel substitute on Linux. I have many
> spreadsheets containing thousands of rows that I routinely use on
> Windows. I am hoping to convert to Linux but I am finding it hard to
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I think that OpenOffice.org is the best overall substitute for Excel. it 
currently has a 32K line limit for Calc documents though. Its Excel 
import is very decent.

You might also want to try gnumeric 
(http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric) - which I unfortunately 
haven't used.

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