Hi all, I have succeeded in convincing my company management to switch to OOo 2.2.1 in stead of M$-Office XP Pro. In the mean time, we can buy a dual core AMD 64 bit system for less than what M$-Office Pro. costs.
We are now in a changeover situation, where, for now, only the new PC's are installed with OOo 2.2.1. The rest will use the current licensed M$ Office 2003 Pro till it will be updated; not to M$ but to OOo. Also, 90 % of our customers send us M$-Office Documents, which means we have to work with the M$ doc and xls formats when we exchange files to the PC's with M$-Office, and our customers. (With the external world all documents will be converted to PDF's, but most customers using M$-Office do not have the great save to PDF as OOo has) Some Word documents use embedded spreadsheet (Excel) objects, i.e. when the object is clicked upon, excel opens and the calculations are made for the entries as they are entered. When the Excel sheet is closed, the data is put into the Word document as a table with the calculated contents. OOo Writer and Calc are set to use M$ document format as the default format which they are "saved as", till all have the OOo installation. One PC has both M$-Office 2003 and OOo 2.2.1 installed. When the Word document with the embedded Excel table is opened by OOo, it automatically uses Excel to change the embedded Excel table successfully. The new PC has _no_ M$-office on it, just OOo 2.2.1. When the same document is opened with the embedded Excel/Spreadsheet object, it can be read in Calc, but it is RO. With Calc the embedded table cannot be changed. Is there some setup necessary to allow Calc to do the editing in the embedded Excel table? :-) Al --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
