design tables
design tables
(OP)
I use design tables a lot. At work it's no problem because they have Excel installed. I use Open Office at home which works beautifully for everything except those things that require Microsoft applications. I don't want to buy Excel just so I can do design tables. Is there a way to tell SW to invoke Open Office Calc instead of Excel?






RE: design tables
RE: design tables
Rob Stupplebeen
RE: design tables
RE: design tables
Changing the OpenOffice executable to excel.exe and expecting that to work would be like learning the word "Japanese" and then expecting to be able to converse fluently with a native speaker.
-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: design tables
RE: design tables
You will have to experiment with older versions to disprove that.
RE: design tables
RE: design tables
We use design tables as part of a macro that automatically designs stuff.
We found that using old Excell versions, although it did work, ran 3 or 4 times slower and was more prone to locking up.
We couldn't figure out why one machine was running the macro so much slower than the other 3.
John