Sorry; I guess it's been longer than I thought since I checked OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet, as I wasn't aware of its multi-sort capability.
I'm creating a huge animal kingdom database, and I need to be able to quickly visually differentiate between animal classes, orders, families, genera and species, along with super-families, sub-families, etc. Background colors might do the trick, but patterns really help me distinguish between, say, aqua and a lighter shade of aqua. Nevertheless, I'm going to download the most current version of OpenOffice for Mac and check it out. Thanks for the tips. ----- Original Message ---- From: John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 3:53:36 PM Subject: Re: [users] OT: What spreadsheet equals Excel? David Blomstrom wrote: > I don't mean to snub OpenOffice.org's spreadsheet; it generally works > fine for me. But I have a project that requires two features Excel > has: > 1) Efficient multi-column sorting (i.e. You highlight row Z, and it > opens a window allowing you to sort first by column Z, second by > column A and third by AX) OOo spreadsheets /can/ sort by up to three columns. > 2) The ability give cells background colors AND patterns (e.g. > horizontal or vertical lines) That, OOo doesn't have. (And I confess it strikes me as a dreadful idea, but, whatever floats your boat....) -- John W. Kennedy "Sweet, was Christ crucified to create this chat?" -- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford" * TagZilla 0.066 * http://tagzilla.mozdev.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097
