From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: March 12, 2008
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: viewer for open office?
>
> Leo,
> I receive various spreadsheets and if I am at the library or somewhere
> where they don't have Excel or OpenOffice I can't view them. You put
> me onto the Excel viewer 2003 and that works fine for the Excel
> spreadsheets. I've looked on the OpenOffice.org web site for a similar
> viewer for the .ods spreadsheets and find nothing. I suppose since the
> program is free they think there is no use for a viewer. I've wondered
> if there is something in the OpenOffice program file that I have on my
> home computer that I could put on my flash drive that would allow me to
> view the .ods files? Probably not since there are so many files in
> there. They're probably all interrelated. Thanks again. I've been
> uploading them to Google Documents and looking at them there as a work
> around.
I'm not aware of a viewer, and I agree totally with your logic: it's
probably not deemed necessary since Open Office is free.
Your workaround - Google Docs - is exactly the path I was thinking
before I even got to that sentence in your question :-).
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Thanks for asking,
Leo Notenboom
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