Re:Sun's Star Office 5.1 (Score 1)

Star Office cannot handle Excel files (97 or newer) with any grace whatsoever. It'll open the file but any cells with formulas will be presented as errors. I have a client whose documents are all Excel 97 or 2000 files. The only way I could deal them was to open them with FileMaker Pro on my Mac. Neither StarOffice or Lotus SmartSuite on my WinPC (or StarO. on my Linux box) could handle them. And with FileMaker, any formatting is immediately lost and comments are ignored, so when I exported the data back to a spreadsheet, I had to fix all the formatting. It was a mess. I had to suck it up and purchase Excel 2000. Thankfully, I could get it at an academic price, so the hit wasn't too bad. Intercompatibility with spreadsheets is a myth.