[X-Newbies] xls files

[Richard Ramsowr]

Keith

The answer to your question is "NO"!

Their is a open source office suite now called
NeoOffice, formally called NeoOfficeJ and it's free
and it works!

NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office
applications (including word processing, spreadsheet,
presentation, and drawing programs) for Mac OS X.
Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite, NeoOffice
has integrated dozens of native Mac features and can
import, edit, and exchange files with other popular
office programs such as MicrosoftTM Office.

Released as free, open-source software under the GNU
General Public License (GPL), NeoOffice is fully
functional and stable enough for everyday use. The
software is actively developed, so improvements and
small updates are made available on a regular basis.

It is available for free from the NeoOffice download
page.

I use it to read and write information sent to me by
my clients in MS Word and etc. - and it does work!

You can find information about it at the following
sites:

   http://www.neooffice.org/
   http://www.planamesa.com/neojava/en/index.php

   http://trinity.neooffice.org/

The last listing above is Trinity - a bulletin board
for the OpenOffice.org Mac OS X community - and the
major reason I bet my business relationship on
NeoOffice - because of its good support!

I'm an Independent Manufacturers Representative with
my own agency, albeit a aging startup these days and I
did not want to get tied down with M$ Word or anything
like it. To date, I'm running a 100% Apple/Mac based
company with just a little help from Open-Sources -
and I want to kept it that way - itÕs a very good
thing!

The problem was that most manufacturers communicate
with their MRÕs  through M$ Word and etc.!

NeoOffice act as a bridge between the two worlds and
most of my clients don't even know that I don't own a
single copy of anything M$ (I'll take that back - my
QuickSilver came to me with a copy of IE but I never
used it - I guess I should dump it someday when I have
nothing better to do) - and just think of the money
I've saved staying away from M$!

Anyway the short of it is that it does works and it's
learning curve is short

So do check it out...

thefireguy
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--- Keith MILLS <4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> Do I take it that the only way that I can open these
> files is to shell 
> out for MS Office for Mac which I don't have?
> Keith
> 
> On 13 déc. 05, at 15:41, J wrote:
> 
> > Files with .xls endings are actually EXCEL files,
> so if you have MS 
> > Office for Mac, that should open them.
> > You would not be using Stuffit to make a file open
> in AW anyway.
> >
> > On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Keith MILLS wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry if my question may yet again  seem naive,
> but I should be 
> >> grateful for advice.
> >>
> >> I have received two different xls files.
> According to "The Missing 
> >> Manual" I should be able to drag them into
> Stuffit Expander and open 
> >> them. All I get is - could not be converted to
> Appleworks file. Have 
> >> I misunderstood? And is there anything I can do?
> >>
> >> I am on 10.3.3.
> >>
> >> Many thanks
> >> Keith
> >>
> >>
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