David
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Location: Canada
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 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:35 pm Post subject: Lotus Symphony |
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Well, someone recently left in a huff. On the way out, however, he mentioned IBM's continuance of Lotus Symphony. As it happens, I had recently noticed that download here:
http://www.freedownloadaday.com/
I'm not one to cut off my nose to spite my face, so I downloaded it. In my opinion it's definitely worth a look. One thing I checked right away was that I prepared an OO Calc document, and also save that in Excel 97 format. When I had Lotus up and running, I drag/dropped the Excel file onto the empty spreadsheet ...and it loaded in. I tried the same with the OO file, and guess what? No, you were wrong. It loaded in just as easily. A plain sheet, of course, no macros. But how can you test everything when there is no guarantee anywhere that a file will REALLY be saved in that format?
So... on with the testing. Definitely worth a look.
David. |
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