Apache OpenOffice Community Forum

Hi,

As part of our business, we will be needing to supply business partners who don't have M$ excel with an excel compatible solution. Since these partners may not be tech savvy I want to be able to supply them with an installer for OO which only includes Calc (and Math if it's needed to support imbeded formulas) so that they can complete and email back to us our electronic application form (which is in excel 2003 format).

A previous post on this forum asking if you can download the OO aps seperately was answered with a resounding "No", but is there an installer or custom package out there which includes the common files plus Calc and Math only?

Many thanks in advance,

TBMC

Why? Each one of the large components involves 90% of the code. You won't save any disk space. This is one large program to load office documents of any type. It is not a bundle of separate programs.
My personal opinion: Never ever let untrained (not tech savvy) people edit spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are extremely volatile tools, allowing all kinds of mistakes.

http://www.Gnumeric.org offers another stand-alone spreadsheet.

Villeroy wrote:This is one large program to load office documents of any type. It is not a bundle of separate programs..

Thanks for the reply. I understand that OO is designed to be a full suite of apps, but since it's open source I thought I'd post here to see if someone had created a custom build which only has calc on it. I'll have a look at http://www.Gnumeric.org and see if that'll do the trick, as I really only need excel support for those who don't have it. Again, thanks for the link and the reply.

AFAIR, nobody has overcome this fundamental design decision affecting some 3 millions lines of code. Open source does not mean that everything thinkable is practicable, even if possible.