[Elecraft] Excel Test

[David Gilbert]

I echo the recommendation for OpenOffice.  I also own MS Office 2010 but 
OpenOffice is actually more up to date, and as you say, it's free.  As 
an example, I recently had a need to be able to use hyperbolic sine 
functions on complex numbers for some transmission line calculations.  
Excel didn't add that capability until after 2010, while Open Office 
Calc has them.  MS Office 2010 will be the last version I ever buy, or 
"lease" now that it is cloud based.

73,
Dave   AB7E



On 2/26/2020 9:56 AM, Raymond Sills via Elecraft wrote:
> In addition to Libre Office, there still is Open Office (now supported by The Apache Software Foundation).It appears that at some point the original Open Office morphed into Libre Office... and AFAIK, all the generated files from each application are compatible with each other, and will permit you to export a new file in Word (or other MS App) format.   Open Office is free to download and use.
> The latest version rescued me when I had to update my Mac's OS and I wanted to be able to open older files.  The bane of updating an OS is the risk that some older app that you still need or use will "break" under the new OS.   At that point, you have to hope that the original developer of that now broker app will have updated it to run on the new OS.
> I had that situation with EchoMac... a compatible version of EchoLink.
> 73 de RayK2ULRKX3 #211
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Wilhelm<donwilh at embarqmail.com>
> To: James Walker<jimmy.walker at outlook.com>; Walter Underwood<wunder at wunderwood.org>
> Cc: elecraft reflector<elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wed, Feb 26, 2020 11:44 am
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Excel Test
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> If you do not have Microsoft Word, then you should download and install
> LibreOffice.  It is a full Office suite that is quite similar to
> Microsoft Office.  And it is free to use.  It will read any file
> produced by MS Office, and it also exports to .pdf format.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
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