Out of curiousity, have you tried gnumeric? I have found it to work very 
well with excel spreadsheets. The only cavaet I can think of is that if 
your spreadsheet has VBA[1] in it, it probably wont work properly in 
gnumeric. If its just a spreadsheet however, it'll work fine.

On a related note, Gnumeric seems to have issues with UTF-8 under RedHat 9. If you set the LC_ALL environment var to en_US before you launch it things are better. But in general it doesn't like RH9's font or unicode setup.

Newer versions of Gnumeric might be better.




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