On Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:59:48 +0100, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 21:43, Paul Gear wrote: > [...] > > > > I have another criteria which you may or may not find relevant: is it > > cross-platform. This is a critical issue to me, because i need to be > > able to recommend the tool to the end users i support, and most of them > > still use Windows or Mac. Therefore, if there is a cross-platform > > solution that works (i.e. OpenOffice.org), i recommend it. I do the > > same with browsers and email (Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird). > > But gnumeric can read and write excel format files, so less of a problem... > > -- > richard
Thanks for all the opinions. They have been very useful. Cross-platform performance is important to me in a different sense. Let's say my clients are excel-only-users and I am a debian-user. We will be exchanging data periodically with changes committed to the file at each time (client will add some data and I will additional data as time progresses). Looks like the best way to achieve this is to export the data from gnumeric into excel spreadsheet and pass it on. Thanks a lot for all the feedback. Another thing I noticed with gnumeric, oocalc is that oocalc seems to have more keyboard shortcuts than gnumeric. For example, there are commands like Alt+arrow to change the column width, height and Alt+Shift+arrow to optimize width/height of a column in oocalc. I was not able to find equivalent commands in gnumeric. But this is a minor advantage I guess... Apologies if I break the threads. I am using gmail to read the mailing list and it is a bit clumsy with "the conversation view" as opposed to "the thread view". regards raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
