8 Dec
2003
8 Dec
'03
1:40 p.m.
Are those macros usable or some of them are just virus?
Ask your wife to send a copy of them to Openoffice.org for debugging.
We can improve Openoffice thanks to her ( and the US Navy of course)...
GZS
John Bleichert wrote:
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Mark Knecht wrote:
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On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 07:01, John Bleichert
wrote:
I understand and agree. I was was being facetious when I suggested she
"re-program all those macros in their native macro languages".
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On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 eviltwin69(a)cableone.net wrote:
In my experience this isn't the way the world works. She's probably
receiving Excel spreadsheets from others that already have stuff
embedded that won't work with Linux tools. I ran into this problem big
time when we looked at Star Office and Open Office for work. We couldn't
use either as their compatibility with both Word and Excel wasn't good
enough and broke our compatibility with both our vendors and our
customers.
As someone who runs a business, why would I want to pay someone $600 to
fix 10 documents when I can buy Microsoft's tools for $300 and have
guaranteed compatibility? That's a tough sell...
My wife is the comptroller for a US Navy activity.
She is the ultimate hard-core Excel user ;-) Neither Open Office nor Gnumeric can handle
the macros that she uses.
Jan
Yeah, I bet. That's a difficult switch. Although, to be fair, OO Calc or
Gnumeric would work fine if she chose to re-program all those macros in
their native macro languages ;-) (Does gnumeric have one? I haven't used
it in years)