A few years ago, I had windows XP and Excel on MS office. I also had several spread sheets on LOtus VERSION 4. When I imported a lotus file into excel the result was the convenience of Lotus and the power of Excel. I was able to create MACROS using the lotus keystrokes. Running macros and editing was a snap. I would like to find how I can GET something like this now with Windows 10. What is it you gain by having both Lotus and Excel and switching between the 2? As far as I know, Excel can do everything Lotus could do and more. I was a big-time user of Lotus back in the 90's but switched to Excel and never missed Lotus. MS gave Excel the ability to respond to the Lotus "/" commands and even has this capability in the LATEST version of Office.

Excel has Lotus compaibility options under Advanced options:

[attachment deleted by admin to conserve space]Open Office and Libre Office are free options, but not sure how easy it is to import macro use. I use Open Office myself, but I havent played with macro use.


https://www.libreoffice.org/
https://www.debugpoint.com/2014/09/writing-a-macro-in-libreoffice-calc-getting-started/

https://www.openoffice.org/
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Getting_Started/Creating_a_simple_macro

I had Lotus 1-2-3 back in the MID 1990s as well, then in college I got Office 2000 and switched to Excel. But when introduced to Open Office about 5 years later and it was FREE, I made the leap to free office software and only use Microsoft Office at work.Quote from: henryjr on March 04, 2018, 06:11:29 PM

Running macros and editing was a snap. I would like to find how I can get something like this now with Windows 10.