Rich I've been happy with LibreOffice although I haven't subjected it to particularly massive data sets. Btw, it is distinct from OpenOffice, also free, which Oracle submitted to the Apache Software Foundation in June. LibreOffice is built from OpenOffice by former leading members of the OpenOffice.org Community under The Document Foundation<http://www.documentfoundation.org/foundation/> with a strong mission concerning free access to office tools, etc.
Btw, thanks for prompting me to look into the differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice which leads me to drop the latter for LibreOffice. I just wish that LibreOffice Writer would adopt the architecture of WP and not continue that of Word. Robert 2011/12/5 Rich Bragonje <[email protected]> > Hi Don, > > LibreOffice, the latest version of OpenOffice, is "compatible" with Excel, > and has the bonus of being free. http://www.libreoffice.org/ > > If you are dealing with .csv type data, then you might look at CSVed, > another freeware program, that has a lot of nice things. Sorting, filters, > etc. > > http://csved.sjfrancke.nl/index.html > > List of features from their webpage: > > - edit, add, insert and delete items; > - import; > - change separator; > - add, delete columns; > - rearrange column order; > - save selection of rows and columns; > - save filtered items; > - save with double quotes; > - search and replace; > - filter items; > - remove duplicates; > - append and merge files; > - install and uninstall > - help in English > - add prefix and suffix > - split and join columns > - export to HTML, Excel, Word, XML and more > - proper words and strings > - column search > - column sort and global sort > > Rich > > > > At 11:16 AM 12/5/2011, you wrote: > > Hi guys . . . I keep up with the updates from Corel on WP but have a > terrible time with Quattro Pro. Regardless of the box I'm running it on it > continuously crashes when sorting any volume of data which is something I > do a lot. I also have Excel loaded but am resistant towards it as their > menu system is totally foreign to me. Am considering looking at some open > source products. Any ideas? > > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > >
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