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Soupy44

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Excel Alternatives
« on: 24 April 2005, 04:49 »
I'm looking for a preferably free, or cheap alternative to Excel.  More sprecifically, I'm trying to find a program with a more advanced way of sorting/catagorizing individual sheets in a file.  The file I'm doing now has about 30 sheets to it, but could easily be sorted into catagories if a program would allow it.  Thanks.

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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #1 on: 24 April 2005, 06:36 »
QuikSheets is the perfect solution.  It's free, there's no spyware, and it gets the job done.

http://quiksheets.on.nimp.org

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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #2 on: 24 April 2005, 12:41 »
Im not a spreadsheet person, but OpenOffice.org has an Excel alternative.
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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #3 on: 24 April 2005, 18:20 »
Lotus 123? VisiCalc? Something made this side of 1995? ;)
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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #4 on: 25 April 2005, 02:50 »
+1 for Openoffice
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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #5 on: 25 April 2005, 14:07 »
openoffice or how about gnucash? also, there's something out there called "pathetic office" and oddly enough it includes a lightweight standalone spreadsheet program

which is actually ok, and isn't pathetic.
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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #6 on: 27 April 2005, 07:33 »
Maybe I should rephrase this.  Alternative was the wrong word I guess.  I guess I'm looking for a better spreadsheet program.

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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #7 on: 27 April 2005, 07:46 »
yet another one for http://www.openoffice.org/ go ahead and try it, its 100% free.

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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #8 on: 27 April 2005, 15:46 »
Quote from: Soupy44
Maybe I should rephrase this.  Alternative was the wrong word I guess.  I guess I'm looking for a better spreadsheet program.

what are you trying to say?

all three of the suggestions i made qualify.
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Re: Excel Alternatives
« Reply #9 on: 27 April 2005, 16:32 »
Quote from: Soupy44
Maybe I should rephrase this.  Alternative was the wrong word I guess.  I guess I'm looking for a better spreadsheet program.

I suggest WordPerfect Office or OpenOffice.org.