Excel Alternatives

ZhengHe · Nov 12, 2005

What is the best free Excel alternative and the best payed for one? They need to be able to run on Windows 98. I found two websites that seemed to gloss over the subject a bit, but I rather not install something I know nothing about: http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/sheet.html, http://www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/office.shtml

One more thing. It would help if the software weren't too bloated, if possible, although this would be an optional consideration, say if there are two comperable programs I'd rather the smaller one

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BrutalDrew · Nov 12, 2005

OpenOffice?

Centercore · Nov 12, 2005

Id say open office aswell I instantly thought of it when I saw the posts title

ZhengHe · Nov 12, 2005

I thought Open Office too actually, but its just so big and all I want is the Calc portion of it. It only comes coupled together with all of its other programs though, which I don't really need. If there were just a download for Open Office Calc itself, my problem would be solved, but there doesn't seem to be. Of course if it comes right down to it I'd download the whole suite, but space is at a premium and I'd like to conserve when possible.

tweakerxp · Nov 12, 2005

When you're installing OO, you are given the option to only install the components you want. You should be able to install Calc only if you so wish.

ZhengHe · Nov 13, 2005

tweakerxp said:
When you're installing OO, you are given the option to only install the components you want. You should be able to install Calc only if you so wish.

Ah, didn't know that. Thanks tweakerxp.

anon1 · Nov 13, 2005

ZhengHe said:
What is the best free Excel alternative and the best payed for one? They need to be able to run on Windows 98. I found two websites that seemed to gloss over the subject a bit, but I rather not install something I know nothing about: http://microsoft.toddverbeek.com/sheet.html, http://www.msboycott.com/thealt/alts/office.shtml

One more thing. It would help if the software weren't too bloated, if possible, although this would be an optional consideration, say if there are two comperable programs I'd rather the smaller one .

Gnumeric? It runs on Linux, and they recently created an executable for Windows. Here is the link: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/downloads.shtml

ZhengHe · Nov 14, 2005

tspier2 said:
Gnumeric? It runs on Linux, and they recently created an executable for Windows. Here is the link: http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/downloads.shtml

Hmm...anyone else had any experience with Gnumeric. It looks nice, but I've never seen it before. May wind up just trying out both unless anyone has a point that would rule solely on the side of one vs. another.

anon1 · Nov 14, 2005

To be honest...Open Office is a bit slow and takes up LOADS of memory. Basically...it is a pig, if you have an older computer. Gnumeric is basically Excel, but it doesn't suck.

The graphics are good, it contains good features, and it is a lot faster than Open Office is.

MisterEd · Nov 14, 2005

Gnumeric will not work with Windows 98.

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There is a build of 1.6.0 Release Candidate 1 available. Please report bugs here. Here is a list of known bugs for the Win32 build. Note: this build does not work on Win9x and since GTK+ will probably never support Win9x, that is not likely to change in the future."

Open Office Calc takes up about 37 MB of RAM. Excel 2003 only takes up 13 MB of RAM but that is probably because it also using Microsoft DLLs. Excel also probably loads faster because of the perloaded DLL6s.

Open Office became a lot better when they split it up into seperate applications. Each seperate application loads a lot faster than the previous bloated single app. The current version 2.0 works a lot better than the older versions I had tried a few years ago.

habbajabba · Nov 14, 2005

sh, OO has a usb version. how small do you want it?

Scott9027 · Nov 14, 2005

Even if the OOo suite is large, if he just installs calc, he should have no problem.

ZhengHe · Nov 21, 2005

Ah, well I installed Calc and it works fine for the moment, so long as I use it by itself, heard there are some other smaller and equally excellent programs out there, but haven't found them yet and for all means and purposes it meets all the criteria anyway. Anyone have any other suggestions in the future feel free to post, for future generations

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godofgorks · Nov 22, 2005

ZhengHe said:
Ah, well I installed Calc and it works fine for the moment, so long as I use it by itself, heard there are some other smaller and equally excellent programs out there, but haven't found them yet and for all means and purposes it meets all the criteria anyway. Anyone have any other suggestions in the future feel free to post, for future generations .

Good to hear it's running good. I'm a little late on the topic but when I read the title my instincts shouted "Open Office!!"

ZhengHe · Dec 1, 2005

godofgorks said:
Good to hear it's running good. I'm a little late on the topic but when I read the title my instincts shouted "Open Office!!"

Yeah, well that seems to be the presiding notion and right at that.

habbajabba said:
sh, OO has a usb version. how small do you want it?

Do you need a usb thumb drive to install that or can it be installed directly does anyone know. Just curious since a smaller overall package means smaller programs, I'm not not moving this anywhere so a usb thumb drive with office for one computer seems a little useless. Btw, that is one really nice site, thanks

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