[muglo] Re: Excel
- From: Tee Cashmore <tee.cashmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 19:26:18 -0500
Martin Albinger wrote:
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>Eric D. wrote:
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>>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).
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>>Make sure that AW can read Excel 4 files before proceeding with that option.
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>I not sure if it would be a problem. I think the .xls extension
>tends to translate. If not there is always MacLink Plus!
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Please note that Appleworks 5.04 does not translate Excell without the
assistance of MacLinkPlus and will only translate to an AW spreadsheet
file. The propensity for IBM & many mac users to use spreadsheets for
database work is simply a throwback from "Lotus" days. Databases can do
all the mathematical functions of spreadsheets, usually taking up less
memory & can certainly do more effective sorting & other manipulations.
Here endeth my rant for the day.
TTFN,
TeeC
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