From hal ......... Wed Sep 3 12:31:23 2003 To: Jody Goldberg Subject: Re: MS Office-Linux Interoperability & Gnumeric Jody Goldberg wrote: > 2) A bit more detail on how you evaluated. As far as I can tell > from our test suite Gnumeric is better than OpenCalc about > calculating the same values for the expressions. We looked at appearance only, and spot checked numbers, so we would have missed subtle differences in values. Speaking of that I went back and checked the 9 files that failed. It turns out that in 7 of the cases, gnumeric simply displayed a different part of the file on the opening screen than did Excel---scrolling to the left revealed the same document contents. This really shouldn't count as an error. I think that I will send in a correction indicating that Gnumeric actually did much better than it had appeared. I'll wait a couple of weeks to do this to see if any other problems emerge. The two remaining problems are the appearance of the graph in 03RedDot2.xls is slightly off, and the photos not appearing in HK1.xls. These are relatively small matters. -- Hal Varian