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

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