OpenOffice efficacy - Originally Re: [wplug] Win4Lin Qs

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Monday 28 April 2003 09:27, Paul G Cantalupo wrote:
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> So, before I dive into OpenOffice, can you tell me the types of
> Excel files that you work with in OpenOffice and really, how well does it
> exactly preserve the original spreadsheet? Is there any tweaking involved
> on your part? Anybody else want to weigh in on this?

Since it's impossible (and probably illegal by now - cheers DMCA) to 
reverse-engineer a file format without having the specifications, there will 
always be discrepancies between the M$-Excel rendering and the OpenOffice.org 
hacks to mimic Excel's behavior.

For not-too-complex spreadsheets, things work fine with no tweaking. But when 
"advanced" features of Excel are used, OpenOffice can not always render them 
properly. And we all have Microsoft to thank for working hard to make sure 
that such incompatibilities are here to stay... 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/03/13/1611244

-A
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