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Microsoft Excel to Open Office
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AFAIK, it's not a full compatibility, especially in terms of macros.
Excel document with macros is likely not to work in OO.
And not running Macros is a bad thing ?
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/07/07/remember-macro-viruses-infected-word-and-excel-files-theyre-back/Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.0 -
Fightsback wrote: »And not running Macros is a bad thing ?
Very bad if the function of your spreadsheet depends on them!0 -
Yes if the business uses macros in their Excl spreadsheetsFightsback wrote: »This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com0 -
libreoffice and openoffice will probably break the formatting on excel spreadsheets. I used the open office word poressor and all the page breaks were wrong. 1 word [from ms office] page would appear on 1 & quarter page on openoffice.
Obviously formatting is critical for a lot of long documents.0 -
If my company was expecting me to do business work on my personal IT equipment, I'd be asking them to pay for any software I required to do so.0
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