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EDIT and update timestamp - So, #2 below is intermittent. #1 below has been reported already, a YEAR ago, and they have done nothing about it. I know OO is free, but this severely limits it's usability - I still have to have Excel in order to begin things. I am not a programmer. Is Open Office only for the Elite Geek Community? Are the rest of us condemned to sell our souls to The Establishment????
So I have two "problems". Each of them has a work-around but they are still tiresome.
#1: When I open a new, blank spreadsheet, and try to enter data, it is not visible in the cells, even though, when I have the cell selected, it shows up in the formula line on top. BUT! If I open s spreadsheet generated in excel (or numbers, saved as excel) with anything in it at all, this problem doesn't exist.
#2: gridlines - I want to see the gridlines on the spreadsheet. I can make it draw on lines around the cells for a block of cell, but again, that's doing it the long way. I feel like I just haven't found the correct command yet. And oh, yea, if I first generate a spreadsheet in Excel, then open it with Open Office, I get my gridlines, but when I then add a new sheet to the file, I need to generate my gridlines.
So I have two "problems". Each of them has a work-around but they are still tiresome.
#1: When I open a new, blank spreadsheet, and try to enter data, it is not visible in the cells, even though, when I have the cell selected, it shows up in the formula line on top. BUT! If I open s spreadsheet generated in excel (or numbers, saved as excel) with anything in it at all, this problem doesn't exist.
#2: gridlines - I want to see the gridlines on the spreadsheet. I can make it draw on lines around the cells for a block of cell, but again, that's doing it the long way. I feel like I just haven't found the correct command yet. And oh, yea, if I first generate a spreadsheet in Excel, then open it with Open Office, I get my gridlines, but when I then add a new sheet to the file, I need to generate my gridlines.
