XL without the prgm

[Francis Hookham]

Does MS make provision for an XL sheet to be saved in such a way that it can
be opened by anyone - a bit like a .rtf text file but I am not talking about
pasting a range of figures into a Word doc

What I need to do is to be able to send a small spreadsheet (say 3 cols x 30
rows) with =SUM(#,#) in the bottom rows and maybe some concatenation
elsewhere so the recipient can enter data and return it

In other words can a spreadsheet carry enough XL prgm to run the spreadsheet
without the recipient needing XL, or even Works

Francis Hookham

 

[Bernard Rey]

Francis Hookham wrote :

Does MS make provision for an XL sheet to be saved in such a way that it can
be opened by anyone - a bit like a .rtf text file but I am not talking about
pasting a range of figures into a Word doc

What I need to do is to be able to send a small spreadsheet (say 3 cols x 30
rows) with =SUM(#,#) in the bottom rows and maybe some concatenation
elsewhere so the recipient can enter data and return it

In other words can a spreadsheet carry enough XL prgm to run the spreadsheet
without the recipient needing XL, or even Works

No. This isn't possible. If they have to enter data, they have to run Excel
or a "compatible" application. Under certain extent you can consider they
*must* have Excel, or AppleWorks, or OpenOffice on their computer, thus
being able to open a *very* simple worksheet, possibly saved in an earlier
version of Excel (Excel 4) in order to make it more compatible. But these
are rather poor workarounds.

 

[Francis Hookham]

Thanks Bernard - it is a pity but it is what I expected

Francis

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

No. This isn't possible. If they have to enter data, they have to run Excel
or a "compatible" application. Under certain extent you can consider they
*must* have Excel, or AppleWorks, or OpenOffice on their computer, thus
being able to open a *very* simple worksheet, possibly saved in an earlier
version of Excel (Excel 4) in order to make it more compatible. But these
are rather poor workarounds.

The nice thing about OpenOffice (or, for accurate statistical work,
Gnumeric) is that they're free, though they take a bit of setup in
the X11 environment.

 

[Francis Hookham]

No. This isn't possible. If they have to enter data, they have to run Excel
or a "compatible" application. Under certain extent you can consider they
*must* have Excel, or AppleWorks, or OpenOffice on their computer, thus
being able to open a *very* simple worksheet, possibly saved in an earlier
version of Excel (Excel 4) in order to make it more compatible. But these
are rather poor workarounds.

The nice thing about OpenOffice (or, for accurate statistical work,
Gnumeric) is that they're free, though they take a bit of setup in
the X11 environment.


OpenOffice?

Gnumeric?

Don't know them

Versions for Mac and PC?

I had a quick look but with dialup (broadband coming soon) I did not get far
- can you point me in the right direction for downloads please

Francis Hookham

 

[J.E. McGimpsey]

OpenOffice?

Gnumeric?

Don't know them

Versions for Mac and PC?

I had a quick look but with dialup (broadband coming soon) I did not get far
- can you point me in the right direction for downloads please

Open Office:

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html

Gnumeric:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

Both require X11:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

or

http://fink.sourceforge.net/

 

[Francis Hookham]

Thanks - sounds as though I should keep clear for the time being at least
since I'm sticking to OS9# for now and I'm a bit past it for trying to
understand Unix - I'll stick to asking you questions about VBA

Francis Hookham

OpenOffice?

Gnumeric?

Don't know them

Versions for Mac and PC?

I had a quick look but with dialup (broadband coming soon) I did not get far
- can you point me in the right direction for downloads please

Open Office:

http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/ooo-osx_downloads.html

Gnumeric:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

Both require X11:

http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/

or

http://fink.sourceforge.net/