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On Thu, 13 May 2010 20:00:04 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I tried KOffice. It works, but it doesn't seem to *do* very much, and
> it's infuriatingly fiddly to operate. (Especially the spreadsheet. In
> fact, I've yet to find any spreadsheet that works as well as Excel -
> which is worrying, considering that Excel wasn't work fantastically.)
oocalc works very well, I find - I do a *lot* of data manipulation in my
job, and I find that oocalc works as well as MS Excel - certainly well
enough for the manipulations I do. The recent expansion of the number of
rows & columns really got rid of the last limitation I ran into (as I
often deal with fairly large data sets).
My only complaint, in fact, about OpenOffice is that the database really
isn't that useful - it's more of a front-end to bigger database engines
(from MySQL to things like Oracle), but doesn't seem to work with MS
Access databases (not that I need them that often, Jet is itself a pretty
poor database engine, but it's handy for dealing with mid-size datasets
where multiuser access isn't an important factor).
> I thought WordPerfect died about 20 years ago?
Um, no:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordperfect
WP Corp was bought by Novell and then sold to Corel a few years later.
It's still in heavy use in some industries (such as being the preferred
application of many people in the legal profession).
Jim
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