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Originally Posted by Greyghost View Post
Thanks Bun, for your notes. I've think I saw this work-around mentioned a while back in this thread. I haven't tried it for a couple of reasons. First, I have--alas--a pc/vista, so I don't have Gnumeric there. Second, and perhaps more importantly, I have to share my spreadsheets with someone who needs excel, no choice. And, finally, I'm not complaining here, you understand, but it'd sure be nice to use the app without an additional two or three step work-around.

BTW, I am using ver. 1.8.0-1chinook5 and, as of 2.1.08, still had the cell-formatting issues. I would love to use this app to keep my inventory up-to-date. Interestingly, I chose to use a spreadsheet instead of a database because it's such a small inventory that I really don't need a lot of computing power. But, what I do need for sure are multiple sheets, and calculations.

Gnumeric works well enough on the first count (though the 'sheet selector' is very hard to find), but, alas, it still has issues with fields that contain calculations. These are simple calculations, too, just AVG and SUM.

Again, to the developers, this is not a complaint, just an observation. I am, by the way, a very willing tester should you need someone 'in the wild' so to speak...

I have Gnumeric on both win XP and win Vista. It works fine. Regarding other people using Excel, it is fine. Just have to upload to gnumeric and save on gnumeric you then be able to work in the tablet. I know it is not perfect, the other choice is to do without gnumeric. For me, I use it "several" times a day, mixing PC/tablet in and out, have NOT been bothered by the cell format for several weeks since. I suggest it for someone using spreadsheet like me, without gnumeric, I will have to, och, put down my tablet and pick up my Dell PDA again .

It is a make or break app for me. I also want to echo here, that, this is absolutely not a complaint, I only feel grateful for Chelli's hard working porting this app to Chinook. Thanks again,


bun