On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 13:41 -0600, Adam Miller wrote:

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 11:37:19AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 18:11 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> 
> > Ok people, be honest: Who of you doesn't have Openoffice.org installed
> > on his system? Who is using abiword and gnumeric instead?
> 
> I have both and use AbiWord as often as possible, only falling back on
> Writer when AbiWord can't do something.
> 
> I haven't used a spreadsheet in anger for something like a decade and
> fully intend to keep it that way =)
<SNIP>

I'm actually with AdamW here, I haven't used a spreadsheet in ages and I
use Abiword as much as possible and generally don't install
openoffice.org until I find a scenario where I absolutely need it and
even then I normally fire up my RHEL6 machine to just use openoffice
there (which has become *extremely* rare) so I can keep my Fedora install clean.

I think its been almost a year since I found something that AbiWord
couldn't accomplish that I needed done.

-AdamM

Speaking as a heavy spreadsheet user (!), I think it's fair to say that both Gnumeric and AbiWord have come on in leaps and bounds in the last year or so, particularly in the quality of their format compatibility. I used to only use OpenOffice simply for compatibility reasons, however I've recently given Gnumeric and Abiword another go and now I'm at the stage where I'm considering dumping Ooo completely.

Nathan