On Sunday 26 May 2002 00:57, you wrote: > > 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.
Well the idea had occured to me, but for the moment, I don't just want to dump kspread at the first hurdle.So to speak. I will keep this option open, the one factor is that it's yet another install every time you replace the OS, but as I say I don't rule it out. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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