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Turns out Calc won't download to my Mac. Something to do with Safari browser.

I have a Toshiba running Windows XP; use it mainly for online music
programs. I'm obviously going to need help, so George's recommendation
for a s/s with discursive manual I think a good one.

Suggestions, anyone?

-Hewitt

On 1/12/09, George Huxtable  wrote:
>
>  Nicol�s de Hilster wrote, about choosing a spreadsheet program-
>
>
>  I would suggest Calc from OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/). It is
>  free, reads (and can save) MicroSoft Excel sheets and works cross-platform.
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>  I have little doubt that Calc (which came free, as a part of Open Office) is
>  indeed powerful. I have tried, quite hard, to use it. But is there decent
>  printed documentation for it? The only manual I could find combined all
>  aspects of Open Office, so it was over-condensed. Many important features of
>  Calc, available in the program itself, went unmentioned in that manual. And
>  if you can't find that a feature exists, it might as well not be there.
>
>  I'm aware that "online help" is available, but that's one of my pet hates,
>  for any software. I'm much happier riffling through the pages of a book (if
>  it has a decent index) then digging through menus and submenus for stuff
>  that's been cunningly concealed. And quite a lot of the online help with
>  Calc has been obscurely written and is hard to understand.
>
>  In comparison, my old copy of Excel 2000 has a superb manual of over 1000
>  pages, to which much attention has been given to making it clear and
>  comprehensive.
>
>  If Nicol�s can recommend a better printed manual for Calc, I will go back
>  and try it again. There's a big in-principle attraction, for me, in free
>  software that can be updated for nothing, compared with expensive commercial
>  stuff that becomes no-longer supported, then calls for expensive upgrading.
>
>  George.
>
>  contact George Huxtable, at  george@hux.me.uk
>  or at +44 1865 820222 (from UK, 01865 820222)
>  or at 1 Sandy Lane, Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxon OX13 5HX, UK.
>
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>  >
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