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ZDNet Reviews KOffice

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-kill-makes-stronger dept.

Spotted over at dot.kde.org -- this review of KOffice. The review isn't overwhelmingly positive or negative -- seems like a rather balanced picture of both what's up to par, and what's still missing, for mainstream acceptance in the Normal Workplaces of the world.

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  1. This is major? by Ghoser777 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    From the article:
    Unfortunately, performance of this component proved troublesome. Trying to get the software to compute a basic SUM() function on a range of cells yielded an error. We later found out that, unlike in Excel, function names in KSpread are case-sensitive, so typing "=SUM(A1:A15)" in a cell yields an error while typing "=sum(a1:a15)" does not. This is a major shortcoming for anyone who has ever used another spreadsheet, including Lotus 1-2-3 and Quattro.

    Wow, uhhh.. this sounds like a major problem to me. It's pretty easy to get use to (no rocket science behind holding down or not holding down the shift-key), and it would be trivial to fix. And it's open source, so they could just recompile KSpread with it not caring about case-sensitivity. Any novi programmer can do that.

    F-bacher

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