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My wife uses Excel at work, and occasionally will need to do some work from home. I don't have Excel (never really needed, and sadly don't really know how to operate it).
I don't feel like shelling out the $$ to buy a program we'll hardly use, so I wonder if the Open Office version of Excel will suffice in this case? I believe it's called Calc. I use Word constantly, and remember hating Open Office's word processor when my cheap-ass company switched. But it did the job fine. Thoughts? |
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I don't about calc, but your wife should check with the IT guys at work and see what kind of license they have for Office, she may be able to get a copy from work to use at home.
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Unless she does really fancy stuff with Excel (macros, or integration with other Office apps) she should be fine. Even the fancy stuff will catch-up, but it'll probably stay a year behind Office's moving target of features.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1851001,00.asp
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1874157,00.asp http://www.openoffice.org/product/reviews.html http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/80012/openoffice-2.html |
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Gnumeric is another pretty good open source spreadsheet, that can import/export Excel files.
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