[KLUG Members] Re: Calling all Linux novices: -- Mega-ignorance on MS Office!

[Vernon]

Bryan J. Smith wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 19:55, Mike Williams wrote:
>  
>
>>The most common application of a spreadsheet I've seen is taking a
>>string of data, sometimes just text, and splitting it up into cells so
>>you can work with it.
>>    
>>
>
>Have you tried Gnumeric?  It rules at this!!!
>
Gnumeric is great!   just tried it.

>>Nothing else does this even close to as well as Excel.
>>    
>>
>
>Gnumeric???
>
Surely this is picky ...
Gnumeric _was_ able to do Excel's "text to columns" from File->Import 
with no problems,
but where is the option in the menus to do this with an already imported 
column?

If it is not there ... then gnumeric is _not_ as good as Excel ... (but 
I still like it better for other reasons).

Vernon Singleton
pager 877-983-1723

>
>  
>
>>Until something gets it right, (and I haven't tried Ximian yet, so
>>maybe it will save me) MS Excel will continue to dominate.  At least
>>this time they're dominating because they actually have a better
>>product.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, for what you need.  Except you haven't tried Gnumeric.  ;-p
>
>Gnumeric is the most mature Gnome app by far, always has been.  It was
>around well before Evolution, or Ximian for that matter, even existed.
>
>  
>