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I've switched from IE to Firefox, Outlook 2003 to Thunderbird, and Word 2003 to AbiWord, and now I desperately need to replace Excel 2003. Any ideas?

EDIT> OH DUH — Gnumeric. Sheesh. How silly of me. AbiWord and Gnumeric are pieces of GNOME Office.

EDIT 2>> Actually no, this just isn't up to spec. I need something better than this! This isn't even native, it's GTK+/Win32, which has always been kinda weird anyway (what with the non-standard dialogs and widget graphics that are inconsistent with the look of my operating system...)

EDIT 3>> Chose latest OpenOffice beta. See my last comment for more info. :P



Comments

8 Responses to “This post has a stupid title”

  1. # Tarun on July 27th, 2005 9:52 PM

    Maybe this?

  2. # DjLizard on July 27th, 2005 11:13 PM

    I forgot about OpenOffice.org (which I don't really like). I want something else... something with less bloated code and blazing speed.

  3. # rridgely on July 28th, 2005 2:50 AM

    I have a beta version of staroffice 8 that that you could download from sun a while ago (its no longer available). If you really, really want me to I can upload it somewhere for you. Its a 159mb file.

  4. # DjLizard on July 28th, 2005 7:56 AM

    No thanks. OpenOffice.org is the same thing as Star Office anyway. They're two office suites based on java that run slower than Microsoft Office itself :P

    Just looking for a standalone spreadsheet that isn't GTK+ or based on java that is good enough to replace Excel (and opens .xls files).

  5. # rridgely on July 30th, 2005 1:37 PM

    What about this:
    http://www.download.com/602PC-Suite/3000-2064_4-10317185.html?tag=tab_pub

  6. # DjLizard on July 30th, 2005 3:12 PM

    Couldn't choose to only install the XLS program... 602tab seems interesting enough... but the installer was like 'You must restart your computer', and I'm like 'No.'. Has a strange sidebar on the Open File dialog. In fact, they totally custom wrote the Open File dialog, and it's odd. Seems to handle the spreadsheet we use decently enough. We'll see how it goes. If only I could strip out the other crap I don't want... feeling very Microsofted here...

  7. # rridgely on July 30th, 2005 3:21 PM

    I found that while looking for a free office suite. I needed a powerpoint compatible program which 602 did not have, so I did not keep it.

    Hey I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who uses abiword, I love that program. :d

  8. # DjLizard on July 31st, 2005 9:38 AM

    I decided on the latest beta of OpenOffice, since it loads moderately fast, has a standard Open File dialog, and I don't have to install all of the program (just Calc). It's definitely way different than the current stable OpenOffice, and much better. I also told it not to use Java. :P

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