[muglo] Re: Excel

on 6/3/03 12:50 PM, Martin Albinger at max@xxxxxx wrote:

>> or AppleWorks for X
>> for ~$120. AppleWorks has a built-in spreadsheet that can read and write
>> Excel files and has the advantage that it runs natively in OS X (so it looks
>> all pretty and has "protected memory") and in OS 9 *as well*.
> 
> 
> This is probably the easiest and most cost effective solution.
> Depending on the complexity of the Excel worksheets they should
> translate quite well based on my experience. Since it is a
> version 4 Excel many of the new "bloat" features are not there.
> 
> Depending on the type of stuff Excel is being used for it may be
> more advantageous to move the information into the Appleworks
> Database which many people simply overlook as an option because
> they are so spreadsheet focused. If it is data tracking that you
> want you can do some pretty amazing stuff with the AW DB.
> 
> This might be more work because you would have to redo your
> formulas and stuff but it makes finding and printing data so much
> easier and nicer to boot, and with a few user defined macros
> makes getting that info 1 click away.

I just realised one caveat: there's a reasonable chance that AppleWorks will
not be able to read Excel 4 files!!! It's an old format and quite often old
formats are not widely supported (I've run into problems with Word 4/5,
WordPerfect (any version) and Excel 4 problems before).

Make sure that AW can read Excel 4 files before proceeding with that option.

Eric.


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