I use Star Office pretty regularly to read and edit such files. Two problems I have noticed are: 1. If you save the xls document with Star Office, you will have random format glitches when you return to Excel. For example, random boxes might be outlined on one or two sides or shaded. These are easily fixed. More troublesome are font incompatibilities, such as I have had with Greek letters. 2. I think Star Office is supposed to be able to convert tab-separated text to spreadsheet format as Excel does. I have so far never accomplished this. Star Office has invariable opened such files as word processor documents. Otherwise, it's very much like using Excel and perfect for viewing Excel-generated documents. Steve -- On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:55:40 Francesco wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to 'wordview' which can look at ms excel spreadsheets?
TIA
Francesco
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Hi, Regarding item 2 below to open a tab delimited or csv file follow the following procedure. Choose File Open from the menu. Then at the bottom of the dialog box you will see "File Type". This normally defaults to "All", use the drop down list to select "Text - txt - csv (StarCalc)". This will open the file in StarCalc rather than StarWriter. Hope this helps. Graham Smith ______________________________________ On 01-Feb-2000 steveaux@my-Deja.com wrote:
I use Star Office pretty regularly to read and edit such files.
Two problems I have noticed are:
1. If you save the xls document with Star Office, you will have random format glitches when you return to Excel. For example, random boxes might be outlined on one or two sides or shaded. These are easily fixed. More troublesome are font incompatibilities, such as I have had with Greek letters.
2. I think Star Office is supposed to be able to convert tab-separated text to spreadsheet format as Excel does. I have so far never accomplished this. Star Office has invariable opened such files as word processor documents.
Otherwise, it's very much like using Excel and perfect for viewing Excel-generated documents.
Steve
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:55:40 Francesco wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to 'wordview' which can look at ms excel spreadsheets?
TIA
Francesco
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Had thought of Star Office but despite deleting all forms of sversionrc, users file, ofice lock file (I think) and the office 51 directory etc etc and re-installing I still get the deaded message that this installation has expired. I have uninstalled the package (as root) and reinstalled to base system (as root) and then done the personal install to /home/me all to no avail several times. Any suggestions most helpfull. TIA Francesco On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote:
Hi,
Regarding item 2 below to open a tab delimited or csv file follow the following procedure.
Choose File Open from the menu. Then at the bottom of the dialog box you will see "File Type". This normally defaults to "All", use the drop down list to select "Text - txt - csv (StarCalc)". This will open the file in StarCalc rather than StarWriter.
Hope this helps.
Graham Smith ______________________________________
On 01-Feb-2000 steveaux@my-Deja.com wrote:
I use Star Office pretty regularly to read and edit such files.
Two problems I have noticed are:
1. If you save the xls document with Star Office, you will have random format glitches when you return to Excel. For example, random boxes might be outlined on one or two sides or shaded. These are easily fixed. More troublesome are font incompatibilities, such as I have had with Greek letters.
2. I think Star Office is supposed to be able to convert tab-separated text to spreadsheet format as Excel does. I have so far never accomplished this. Star Office has invariable opened such files as word processor documents.
Otherwise, it's very much like using Excel and perfect for viewing Excel-generated documents.
Steve
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On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 09:55:40 Francesco wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to 'wordview' which can look at ms excel spreadsheets?
TIA
Francesco
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Had thought of Star Office but despite deleting all forms of sversionrc, users file, ofice lock file (I think) and the office 51 directory etc etc and re-installing I still get the deaded message that this installation has expired. I have uninstalled the package (as root) and reinstalled to base system (as root) and then done the personal install to /home/me all to no avail several times. Any suggestions most helpfull.
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