Powerpoint and Excel-like software

beast123 · 2009-02-02 01:35:27

Hello,

I do not like OpenOffice very much. It seems overly large and buggy. For my word processing needs, I've found abiword to be perfect. I still need something for slideshows and spreadsheets though, and they should be able to open the microsoft formats too.

Any recommendations?

elmer_42 · 2009-02-02 02:04:37

For spreadsheets, I use gnumeric. It is available in extra, install it with

sudo pacman -Sy gnumeric

SamC · 2009-02-02 02:11:26

I think this would probably work quite well for presentations.

beast123 · 2009-02-02 02:57:26

Thanks gnumeric looks great.

I also took a look at impressive. I haven't installed it yet but it looks more like it for presenting the slideshows than producing them. I may be wrong though so I'll install it tomorrow and find out.

SamC · 2009-02-02 04:06:10

The point is that you can produce the slideshows in anything that can make pdfs, like LaTeX or inkscape.

Berticus · 2009-02-02 05:08:18

I've done away with Office Suites, word processors and the likes. My replacements software:

Word (word processor) -> LaTeX
Spreadsheet -> gnuplot & sage/python
Presentation -> none (I find them highly ineffective)

If I do have to make a presentation, the only thing I would ever use a computer for would be to display certain graphics like pictures and maybe charts.

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#1 2009-02-02 01:35:27

Powerpoint and Excel-like software

#2 2009-02-02 02:04:37

Re: Powerpoint and Excel-like software

#3 2009-02-02 02:11:26

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#4 2009-02-02 02:57:26

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#5 2009-02-02 04:06:10

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