On Mon, December 20, 2010 5:14 am, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > Hi John, > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a situation now where I need to share a spreadsheet between >> > unix, windows and mac users. They don't need to change it, but they do >> > need to be able to read it. >> > >> > I see several EXCEL compatible choices in the file diagloue, but I >> > don't know enough to pick the best one. There is this one, which might >> > be good: >> > >> > MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP & 5.0/95 >> >> Firstly, I don't see the connection between your first paragraph and the >> second. Mac machines run a unix-like OS these days. Gnumeric is >> available >> for free on all those platforms. Why consider Excel at all? >> >> Secondly, "MS Excel (tm) 97/2000/XP & 5.0/95" means that you get a file >> that has TWO copies of the spreadsheet data, one in the more modern >> 97/2000/XP format (introduced in 1997), and the other in the ancient >> 5.0/95 format. This means that it can be opened and used with any >> version >> of Excel from 5.0 upwards. However the older format doesn't support all >> the features that the 97/2000/XP format supports. The main gotcha is max >> 16384 rows instead of 65536; another is lack of Unicode support -- you >> are >> limited to one legacy "codepage". >> >> I would guess that 13 years after Excel 97 was introduced there would be >> very few users who would need that crutch ... do you have any such >> users? >> What features do you need? >> > > Thanks so much for your email. The problem is the Mac users, which is > exacerbated by my own ignorance of the Mac platform. I am told that > installing gnumeric on the Mac is not as simple as it is on windows, > and involves installing X-windows and a lot of other stuff which they > would need only for gnumeric, and they are very reluctant to do > that. I can't say I blame them. If this is wrong, please enlighten me > --- it would be great to get this on the "Get Gnumeric Now!" page > also.
Sorry, "Gnumeric on a Mac" is not my territory. > It would be wonderful if someone would step up to provide a simple Mac > solution. > > So I would like to build the spreadsheets in gnumeric, and have them > be readable in excel. Andreas Guelzow suggested that the 97/2000/XP & > 5.0/95 is the best choice since 2007 support is limited. Perhaps just > the 97/2000/XP would work, certainly no one would need the 5.0/95 > format. > In that case, "97/2000/XP" is the best choice. _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
