Spreadsheets for tracking data

Piwoslaw · 03-23-11, 08:19 AM

What spreadsheets do you use to track data on your home computer? How would you rate them?

I use an old version of Open Office (on an even older version of Linux, Fedora 6). It has more options than I need (basic math plus graphs), so I haven't thought about upgrading it, but there is one shortcoming: when plotting, say energy usage, with the date on the horizontal axis, all the entries on that axis are evenly spaced, i.e. the distance between any two sequential date entries is the same, no matter if the difference between those entries is 1 day or 2 months. What I'd like is the horizontal entries to be spaced proportionally to the dates they represent. Is there an option in Open Office that would allow this? Or any other program?

03-23-11, 08:19 AM	#1
Piwoslaw Super Moderator Join Date: May 2009 Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 961 Thanks: 188 Thanked 110 Times in 86 Posts	Spreadsheets for tracking data What spreadsheets do you use to track data on your home computer? How would you rate them? I use an old version of Open Office (on an even older version of Linux, Fedora 6). It has more options than I need (basic math plus graphs), so I haven't thought about upgrading it, but there is one shortcoming: when plotting, say energy usage, with the date on the horizontal axis, all the entries on that axis are evenly spaced, i.e. the distance between any two sequential date entries is the same, no matter if the difference between those entries is 1 day or 2 months. What I'd like is the horizontal entries to be spaced proportionally to the dates they represent. Is there an option in Open Office that would allow this? Or any other program? __________________ Ecorenovation - the bottomless piggy bank that tries to tame the energy hog.