On 5/3/21 8:48 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
Such users will also miss facilities present in the new product that
they know nothing of. Here's an example. Suppose you want to
concatenate the text in two adjacent spreadsheet cells into a single
cell. In OpenOffice, you can merge the two cells -
At 14:41 03/05/2021 +0100, Robin Lord wrote:
I don't agree open office calc is pretty much identical to excel, ...
All spreadsheet programs are similar, of course: they simply have to
be. Is that what you mean by "pretty much identical"? My point was
not to suggest that OpenOffice (Calc) and
Many WindoZE and Mac apps have a setting to keep a small part of the program
running (so it can start up quickly (QuickStarter?) and installing a new
version will hang unless the install program is programmed to search for and
kill the running stub. Apparently OpenOffice does not do this )or at
I don't agree open office calc is pretty much identical to excel, before I
retired the only major difference I found was the number of rows in excel was
much bigger, and even that may have changed in the 10 years since, I never now
need to have millions of rows in a spreadsheet. Even when I did
At 13:09 03/05/2021 +0100, Brian Barnard wrote:
Subject: Excel equivalent
It is a mistake to think that any software product is the equivalent
of any other. OpenOffice's spreadsheet function ("Calc") is not
offered as an equivalent of Microsoft Excel. It would be equally
unhelpful to
Hi Brian,
a literal is a text. If you want to replace a number which is formatted
as text by having a single quote as the first character then you can
start the replace string with a single qoute ' to leave it as a literal.
Alternatively you can format this number string as text (menu item
In your spreadsheet handler I recently tried to edit a column of literals
(all numeric) but your find and replace would not replace the
characters that I entered with the new ones. In the same column were
alphabetic literals and I could replace these with no problem. As a result
of this I have
The CEO
OpenOffice
Dear Sir/Madam,
I use Android OpenOffice daily, and continuously, on my Android tablet, and
I need an additional function built into the software please. I explain:
I have an 800 page "Text Document" which I edit for my personal use on a
daily basis - and I have to move forth
