Bob, Why are you trying these products if you already have Excel? Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Bob Sneidar <[email protected]> wrote: > LibreOffice crashed on saving a spreadsheet. Beachball of death. Duly > trashed. > > Bob > > > On May 15, 2012, at 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > stephen barncard wrote: > > > >> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I tried Open Office once. I opened an Excel spreadsheet that had > sharing > >>> enabled. It corrupted the spreadsheet and I had to restore a backup. I > >>> deleted it immediately from my computer. > > > > > > It also uses X11, which is being depreciated and not included in > > > future distributions of MacOSX. > > > > While OpenOffice is being somewhat maintained, Ellison's shenanigans > with it at Oracle prompted that community to make a fork called LibreOffice > which has become far more refined, now included with Ubuntu and many other > distros: > > > > <http://www.libreoffice.org/> > > > > I believe LibreOffice runs natively on OS X, without requiring X11. > > > > > > And speaking of Ellison's shenanigans: > > <http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/api-copyright/> > > > > -- > > Richard Gaskin > > Fourth World > > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
