On Sun, 26 May 2002 03:30, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Friday 24 May 2002 12:46, you wrote: > > There should be features to help such a transfer -- Excel and Lotus > > have them, not sure about Gnumeric and Kspread. > > On Sat May 25th , you wrote: > >Wow, very disappointing! > > > >I did some testing on your 57 kb file on KSpread 1.1 on Mandrake > >8.1, on > >a 700 MHz machine (AMD) with 256 MB of memory. (With about 280 rows > >The file took around 30 seconds to load. > > > >It was easy to convert the file to Gnumeric and comma delimited > > f>ormat. > > >I don't have Gnumeric on the machine so I couldn't try it. > > > >I took the comma delimited file to my Windows 95 machine -- 300 > >MHz., 64 > >MB memory, Excel 97. Loaded the file into Excel, saved it as a > >native > >Excel file (.xls) -- quit Excel, opened Excel, loaded the .xls file > >in > >about 1 second. > > > >I did try something else -- I did try two other things: > > > > * I tried importing the comma delimited file back into KSpread, > >and > >it was significantly faster. It took about 10 seconds of machine > >time > >to load up, but this consisted of two 5-second periods -- an > >intermediate menu comes up halfway through the load to allow you to > >specify any necessary options -- you can just hit enter. > > > > * I saved the imported comma delimited file from KSpread as a .ksp > >file, and then loaded it -- it took about 14 seconds, and the > >difference > >between that and the original 30 seconds may be an indication of the > >extra time due to colors. > > Well I do have gnumeric on my machine and I opened the kspread file > in kspread and saved as gnumeric file , which I then opened in > gnumeric. About 1.5 seconds. However it was not flawless. the > 50total,89total,and 200toal columns were duds, every figure gone. > > I also remade the colour scheme which is not so delightfully > sensitive as kspread and does not look so nice, however the saved > file reopened in gnumeric in about 1.5seconds. > > I would say the developers at kde resposible for kspread need to > look into this urgently. > > John
John, OpenOffice.org may be the answer. Never mind the question. Open Office includes a spreadsheet that has been tried and proven in a successful office suite for years (Suns Star Office). It will import and export in Excel format with little loss of quality. Plus you get a word processor that can read MS Word files and others thrown in. Help is available on the list for installing it. I believe Tom posted an address to download the latest version from as a Mandrake RPM within the last few days. -- Michael
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