[Discuss] Another happy convert

[John Blomfield]

David Bronaugh wrote:
> Patrick wrote:
>> PPS:    I was surprised to note that Gnumeric handles Excel
>>     spreadsheets just fine, thank you very much.  Hadn't
>>     messed with MS files much myself, or looked for ways to
>>     do it, or needed to, but that was good news.  OpenOffice
>>     is probably still a good idea, though.    
> This would be my cue to shit on gnumeric... :)
>
> I tried to save a spreadsheet recently to a samba share. It failed due 
> to the file being in use or some similar BS.
>
> I then tried to save the file again. CRASH. Data loss.
>
> Overall gnumeric is good, but caveat user here.
>
> At least OpenOffice doesn't do stuff like that.
>
Have any of you tried KOffice lately I find it is much improved of 
late.  I always used to prefer Open Office because of the compatibility 
with MSOffice formats but now KOffice has a lot of the compatibility of 
Open Office.

John Blomfield
> David
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