Are those macros usable or some of them are just virus? Ask your wife to send a copy of them to Openoffice.org for debugging. We can improve Openoffice thanks to her ( and the US Navy of course)... GZS John Bleichert wrote: > 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 > -- This Message is sent from my Red Hat 9.0 Linux server Machine Registration number 205692 at http://counter.li.org/ .-. Gustavo Zamorano S. .-. | Registered Linux user number 320898 .-. | | at http://counter.li.org/