Converting Lotus 123 files

[Robert L Cochran]

David Curry wrote:

> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>
>> Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:44:22 +0100
>>> "J.L. Coenders" <fedora at universalgrid.nl> wrote:
>>>
>>> [Lotus 123 files]
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>>> A friend asked me if I could find out how to open these files.
>>>> Openoffice  doesnt seem to do the job.
>>>>   
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> That's news to me.  I routinely open the .wk1 files generated by 
>>> Lotus 123
>>> (on my HP 200LX palmtop) in Open Office.  Just use File/Open like you
>>> would for a regular Open Office spreadsheet.
>>>
>>> Admittedly, the spreadsheets I make on my HP aren't obscenely 
>>> complex, but
>>> I;ve had no real trouble opening them.  What sort of problems are you
>>> having?
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> OpenOffice (OO) calc does seem to have a converter for Lotus 1-2-3 
>> files, but I have not needed to use it myself. OO opens Excel 
>> spreadsheets just fine, with the exception that it cannot open those 
>> of my wife's spreadhseets which have more than 33,000 or so rows (the 
>> actual number is 32,767 or so.) She has numerous Excel documents with 
>> more than 60,000 rows. And complains that Excel can't do as many rows 
>> as she wants, too.
>>
>> Bob Cochran
>>
> Try Gnumeric, Bob.  It does handle more rows than oo.o and can take 
> wk1 format.
>
Thank you, this persuaded me to install Gnumeric and I have it running 
now with one of my wife's old spreadsheets. This one has 47,939 rows. 
The spreadsheet itself is 32 Mb big. I can see all the rows too! I 
checked the Help but can't seem to find the maximum number or rows it 
can take for a spreadsheet.

Bob