On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 07:01, John Bleichert wrote: > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 eviltwin69@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > > My wife is the comptroller for a US Navy activity. She is the ultimate hard-core Excel user ;-) Neither Open Office nor Gnumeric can handle the macros that she uses. > > > > > > Jan > > > > > > > Yeah, I bet. That's a difficult switch. Although, to be fair, OO Calc or > > Gnumeric would work fine if she chose to re-program all those macros in > > their native macro languages ;-) (Does gnumeric have one? I haven't used > > it in years) > > In my experience this isn't the way the world works. She's probably > receiving Excel spreadsheets from others that already have stuff > embedded that won't work with Linux tools. I ran into this problem big > time when we looked at Star Office and Open Office for work. We couldn't > use either as their compatibility with both Word and Excel wasn't good > enough and broke our compatibility with both our vendors and our > customers. > > As someone who runs a business, why would I want to pay someone $600 to > fix 10 documents when I can buy Microsoft's tools for $300 and have > guaranteed compatibility? That's a tough sell... > I understand and agree. I was was being facetious when I suggested she "re-program all those macros in their native macro languages". // John Bleichert // syborg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
