Hi, y'all.
Two weeks ago my eMachine's motherboard died, and it seemed cheaper to replace the whole thing for $379 than repair it for ~$250 or so (new board, labor, shipping, time offline, etc.). So I did, and got a COMPAQ (yes, yes, but HP backs them now) with 3x the hard drive, 4x the memory and so on.
But.
I had backups for most every important data file, so that's not a serious problem. However, I had a purchased copy of MS-Office on that machine, and I found a nifty little plug-in for Excel that I use to convert spreadsheets into HTML tables. I've got Open Office on the new machine, and it would do fine except that there's no extension or add-in I can find that will do the same thing and give me the raw HTML. OO has a Web Wizard which will convert a spreadsheet into the finished product, but it puts lots of extra code in there which the Excel widget doesn't place into my pages. (Think MS-Word's Save-to-HTML end product -- last time I tried that I got five lines of code for every functional one).
Anyway, I have a USB-to-SATA/IDE adapter, so once I pull the old drive I shouldn't have trouble (knock wood) copying data over, but I'm wondering if anyone knows whether I'm likely to have an argument with Office because it's moved to a new piece of hardware.
Bueller?
Two weeks ago my eMachine's motherboard died, and it seemed cheaper to replace the whole thing for $379 than repair it for ~$250 or so (new board, labor, shipping, time offline, etc.). So I did, and got a COMPAQ (yes, yes, but HP backs them now) with 3x the hard drive, 4x the memory and so on.
But.
I had backups for most every important data file, so that's not a serious problem. However, I had a purchased copy of MS-Office on that machine, and I found a nifty little plug-in for Excel that I use to convert spreadsheets into HTML tables. I've got Open Office on the new machine, and it would do fine except that there's no extension or add-in I can find that will do the same thing and give me the raw HTML. OO has a Web Wizard which will convert a spreadsheet into the finished product, but it puts lots of extra code in there which the Excel widget doesn't place into my pages. (Think MS-Word's Save-to-HTML end product -- last time I tried that I got five lines of code for every functional one).
Anyway, I have a USB-to-SATA/IDE adapter, so once I pull the old drive I shouldn't have trouble (knock wood) copying data over, but I'm wondering if anyone knows whether I'm likely to have an argument with Office because it's moved to a new piece of hardware.
Bueller?
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