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Guys, <br>
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Those with gray hair like me, do you remember what happened back when
M$ released Excel version 4 for the Mac OS and they wanted EVERYONE to
upgrade from Excel 3 ??? Those that did not upgrade but still
exchanged files between 2 computers - one with Excel 3, the other with
Excel 4, suffered catastrophic corruption of the hard drive. This
appeared to the user like the HD had gone belly up. I invested many
hours to recover the data from such hard drives. It is still the same
company and the developers from then (circa 1990) are likely
development managers now for the next batch of Excel developers.<br>
<br>
-dave<br>
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Michael Corral wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">2007-11-17, Monsieur Clinton V. Weiss a ecrit:
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<pre wrap="">On Nov 17, 2007 3:27 PM, Brian Hurley <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:brian@detroitindustrial.org"><brian@detroitindustrial.org></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">While software bloat is arguably bad* its definitely not restricted to MS
alone. I've read more than one benchmark showing that OO is much worse at
both speed and memory use than even the currently uber bloated MS Office.
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<pre wrap="">I have to agree with this 100%. Last May I wrote a complex
spreadsheet generated in JExcelAPI (Java) that was pure formulas -
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o_O
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<pre wrap="">Excel would open the spreadsheet and calculate all formulas in just
shy of 10 seconds, meanwhile displaying a progress meter such that it
was obvious to the user that it was "working." OpenOffice, however,
would open with a solid white screen. After several seconds a
progress meter would somewhat display near the bottom and the user
could see OO crawling through the formulas. Finally, after about 60
seconds, OO would finish and the rest of the screen would catch up.
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So let me get this right. You're complaining that OpenOffice was not
as robust as Excel in opening a complex *Excel* spreadsheet with tons
of embedded *Excel* formulas, and this for a spreadsheet that was
created with a library (JExcelApi) that was designed to "read, write
and modify Excel spreadsheets" (<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/"><http://jexcelapi.sourceforge.net/></a>)?
All I can say is: wow.
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<pre wrap="">I'm a huge fan of open source, however, I'm also a huge fan of using
the right tool for the right job.
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Then why didn't you use a library that creates *OpenOffice* spreadsheets
instead of one that creates *Excel* spreadsheets?? That would have been
the proper way to use OpenOffice. Your complaint would be like someone
complaining that Excel doesn't open QuattroPro spreadsheets as fast as
QuattroPro does.
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<pre wrap="">OpenOffice, as much as they'd like
to claim, is not yet the right tool for heavy spreadsheet usage.
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Sure it is. And many people use it for that every day. You just weren't
using it properly. That's your fault, not OpenOffice's.
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<pre wrap="">OpenOffice is *NOT* Excel.
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Exactly. :) And that's a good thing. I sure wouldn't want OpenOffice
to calculate 65535 as 100000, as Excel 2007 does:
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/09/24/2339203.shtml"><http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/09/24/2339203.shtml></a>
Better hope your Excel formulas don't calculate that. :p
Michael
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