I’ll repeat it here…
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I was at the IT steering committee meeting of my local FE college. In attendance was the IT manager for the local council. When I asked him about the use of OS software he said that Microsoft was mandated by the LGA – i.e. local authorities had to use it.

Also the senior lecturer on the app development degree said they couldn’t effectively teach Linux or the use of OS tools as part of the course because the IT support group at the college would only support Microsoft applications and servers. They therefore couldn’t get any budget approval to install any OS software or servers for teaching.

I was gobsmacked.
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I stress the lecturer was talking about an Application DEVELOPMENT degree course – so they were forced to use MS tools!

Marty

That’s quite interesting. I have quite a few linked spreadsheets and have not encountered any major issues. I also use hyperlinks to websites in cells with no difficulties too.

Perhaps, it could be an error in the conversion process from xls? If it is, then you should almost certainly report it so the community behind OOo can try to improve the product or help you find a solution. I’d probably start with users@openoffice.org and see if anyone has experienced a similar problem. If not, then you can report it as a bug and get the developers to investigate.

Just a FYI. The users@openoffice.org is a high volume list. I prefer to access them via a news reader so they don’t clog up my mailboxes. here’s a good page listing the various mailing lists and ways to subscribe/access them: http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html

HTH

I installed Open Office but immediately found that it doesn’t support many of the sophisticated features of Excel, especially related to hyperlinks. I have not been able to switch to it for general use because so many of my administrative documents are tied together with hyperlinks.

I have a large number of History teaching materials which I can convert to Open Office and distribute. The selling of knowledge is becoming one of the many things disfiguring our world, and I should be glad to work against it in a small way.