Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
by adharmad on Friday September 18, 2009 @05:05PM
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Why? In my experience, OO Excel has similar capabilities, although OO probably trails in the presentation features to powerpoint.
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Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
by gaius on Friday September 18, 2009 @05:51PM
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Because they'll have vast swathes of rather dodgy VBA, some of it probably has been patched and tweaked for 20 years, without which they'll be utterly unable to function, and the risk of porting it straight across is that the SEC comes and craps all over IBM for not keeping its accounts straight.
Re:IBM forcing all employees to stop using MS Office
by Kadin on Saturday September 19, 2009 @11:24PM
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Does OO Calc have the same tab-return behavior as Excel yet? Last time I tried it, doing data entry was a real PITA.
In Excel, if you're entering data, you press 'tab' to move to the next column, and when you're done with that row, you press Return and it kicks you down and back into the leftmost column. Very handy, since it saves you a mouse movement or many left-arrow presses to get back to the start column. At least the last version of OO Calc I played with didn't mimic this behavior properly---pressing Return just dropped to the next row in the same column, even after entering several columns of data.
Excel may not be the greatest program in the world (let's be honest, it's a bloated monster), but it does a few things right.