>From the sounds of it, most of the Excel use in this situation is fairly basic. Once you learn to use the advanced stuff (pivoting tables, etc.) in Excel 2010 it is really hard (impossible?) to use anything else, but for simple stuff that covers 90% of Excel users LibreOffice Calc should get the job done. Even though I have a Microsoft TechNet subscription I don't use Office on my home PC or Mac. Before I made the final switch from Windows to Mac I had myself switched over to LibreOffice and didn't have a need for Office except for work stuff, so my work laptop had MS Office. Now that my Mac is my primary machine I am split between iWork and LibreOffice. iWork feels more polished, but I still prefer LibreOffice for spreadsheets. As for OpenOffice.org vs LibreOffice, my understanding is the community developers were unhappy with Oracal's treatment of OpenOffice.org after Oracal aquired Sun, so the community forked, LibreOffice was born, etc. The LibreOffice folks have done huge code cleanups to remove unused code in LibreOffice. Oracal still has OpenOffice, but LibreOffice seems to be the true successor to OpenOffice.org. My other Office 2010 addiction is OneNote. Very nice when you have to deal with Outlook. Evernote is awesome as well, and again I'm split between the two products. Most of my work related stuff ends up in OneNote. Personal or anything I might need to be accessible on my iPhone ends up in Evernote. There is a OneNote app for iPhone, but I've had it mess up the formatting of my OneNote notebooks too many times to trust it. If only Evernote had a native Linux client... ;) -- Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120125/f1133d3f/attachment.html>