Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

["Kai Ponte" <kai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> On Monday 14 November 2005 03:17 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:
> 
> > Actually I've yet to run into an issue with spreadsheets. I use them all
> > the time. Most are made in Excel 2000, XP or 2003. I have heard that
> > macros can fuxxor things up with OOo, but I haven't used a macro in a
> > spreadsheet in a long while.
> 
> Do they look good?  That has often been an issue for me.  Sometimes
things 
> "technically" convert, but æsthetically leave much to be desired.  It
would 
> be interesting if someone would conduct a reasonably large-scale test
to see 
> how well OO can play with that other product suite.


Well, here's a small-scale test. I think they look fine, particularly
with OOo 2.0. I've been only using that version for some time, now. It
is - IMO - far and away better looking than 1.3 was.

I have these two files. They are both Excel files created by MS Office.

On Windows XP under Office XP they look like:

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/ScreenShot183.jpg

and 

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/ScreenShot184.jpg

On my laptop (with lower resolution) under OOo 2.0 they look like:

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/xls_in_oo1.jpg

and

http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/suse/xls_in_oo.jpg

Both files are located in that directory (readable) if you wish to browse. 

The second link contains macros, which are recognized in OOo but of
course do not run (they are heavy with VBS).  

I'll eventually put these screen shots into an article I'm writing.

-- 
kai ponte
www.perfectreign.com

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