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Question

Lotus Symphony free for OpenOffice?

May 6, 2013 3:00AM PDT

Is the IBM Lotus Symphony freeware that supposedly works with OpenOffice legit?

I've used OpenOffice spreadsheet and can get most everything done, except it's never been able to import files from some of the later Lotus 123 versions. I've always thought it odd that OpenOffice would import the earlier *.wk1 and *wks files but not the later *.wk5 files.

If this new Lotus Symphony freeware is for real, does it handle the old Lotus keyboard commands? For better or worse, I have a couple of old Lotus users who I can't convert to Excel because they still think in terms of "/Range-Copy" and "/Data-Fill" rather than the equivalent mouse actions and are too stubborn to change. Once their old PCs with Lotus installed breathe their final breaths, these folks are going to be "/Worksheet-Global-OutOfLuck" unless I can figure something out.

Thanks as always!

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Clarification Request
Link please and
May 6, 2013 3:03AM PDT

How about a link about this?

Also, you may want to check out LibreOffice next.
Bob

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RE: Link please and
May 7, 2013 11:48AM PDT
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Try it from the horse's mouth.
May 8, 2013 9:21AM PDT