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Microsoft excel equivalent
Name: Geo Date: August 8, 2002 at 12:03:55 Pacific
Comment:
Is there a program for linux that lets me open and edit microsoft excel (.xls) files? I have some important files I need access to and Microsoft XP has been acting up lately. Every time I try to start excel it loads and then closes right away without an error message.
Name: armin Date: August 8, 2002 at 12:44:37 Pacific
Reply:
gnumeric, openoffice
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Response Number 2
Name: abatis Date: August 8, 2002 at 15:23:18 Pacific
Reply:
Staroffice from Sun will open any MS doc. Mine was free with Redhat - not sure if Sun is stilling giving free downloads. My XP is running it. Our IT guys keep staroffice on their field machines so they actually can open other office suite docs - far superior to MS-office and only 80mb in win form.
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Response Number 3
Name: Mark Date: August 8, 2002 at 19:15:45 Pacific
Summary: Gnome has one (gcalculate?) that opens Excel files. You can get spreadsheets all over the place, but you probably won't find ALL the features in one place. ...
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