It seems to me there is a problem.  I would guess there's either a bug 
in LibreOffice or M$ has done something to Excel that makes its 
spreadsheets not display correctly in LibreOffice.

Does Excel work under Wine?  If so, that might be a solution.

On 09/27/2013 10:54 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> So I talked my brother into ditching Micro$haft and moving to Linux.
> Baaaad idea...
> The man uses Excel *HEAVILY*, and LibreOffice just could not keep up.
> But it was not lack of features or limitations, it was *STUPID* (but 
> dangerous) things like cells not showing the real value and/or 
> recalculating wrong.
> I didn't take his word for it, he showed me the (unbelievable) 
> problems (I could not believe what I was seeing).
> The guy is back to Excel...
> What am I missing?
> ET
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