charlie wrote:
Danny Richardson wrote:
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:24:33 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:

Hi Owen,

It is far easier to simply use OpenOffice which is an executable that
will translate to/from Windows Office (any spread sheet, document,
presentation, drawing...). The Open Document format is the mandated
standard of the European Community, if I recall correctly.

Be careful. If any VB type macros are included in Excel Open Office
will barf. Been there done that.

Danny, K6MHE



Opens fine in OpenOffice 2 on SUSE 10

Thanks for that information, Charlie - it's very useful to know what
other systems can see.

but I did have to reposition
the graphs which were over the table.

That's how I saved the graphs, so OpenOffice got those layout details
right.

Once the graphs have been plotted, it isn't necessary to look at the
underlying table very often, because the data can be seen in a popup
window by running the mouse pointer along each plotted line. If
OpenOffice can do that too, you may find it a convenient feature.

Alternatively, you could drag both graphs away to the right, and then
use the horizontal scroll bar to move between the table and graphs.



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