OpenOffice

[Joel Hammer]

Does anyone have any intense experience with openoffice, in particular,
the spreadsheet?  I used to use StarOffice 5.2 but gave it up in favor
of vi and Excel (running under win4lin). (Obviously, I don't have to
exchange text documents at work, just spreadsheets.)  I was never happy
with the spreadsheet in SO. The spreadsheet in staroffice didn't have
built in functions for data analysis, as far as I could find, and was
awkward in other ways, not nearly as nice as Excel. And, I had to have
painless compatibility with Excel.

But, I would like to stop using Excel, if only so my wife and I don't fight
over using windows (she's using an X terminal to get win4lin on her linux
box.)

Any experience?

Thanks,
Joel