On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:58 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 07:51, Frankie wrote: > > thats great.... > > > > do u have a suggestion for me as to a spreadsheet format ??? > > .sxw if you must be free, and encourage people to use OpenOffice on all > platforms, or .xls if you want to get to practical working state > quickly. Or if you really want to spend some time, look into content > managment platforms with conversion capabilities -- I think Plone can do > some of this sort of work, and is supposed to have good > OpenOffice/StarOffice support. > But until Open Office is widely used under windows it's no good for most people. Of course, go on trying to spread the work - I do - but in the short term .sxw doesn't help.
I am slightly prejudiced against .sxw as a solution on two other counts - a) OOo and SO6 have proved far from stable on my box and b) they're another proprietary format, even if they are open source. We need an open, widely supported format. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302
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