mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
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- Not 'emel 'empstead
Or OpenOffice or its family.
How far are you all off your mileage targets? (if you have one)
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Or OpenOffice or its family.
vickster
Squire
How's that different to Excel?
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Open office is free!
vickster
Squire
I have Excel on my Work laptops, need to be 100% compatible with clients. £50 annual business expense
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Not everyone has it and Open Office is a reasonable alternative that, as I already said, is free. I did have a spell of using it recently and it works is all I will say. The big disappointments come when swapping from Microsoft to OpenOffice and vice-versa when the changes in forming and functionality can make small but frustrating changes to you previous work. If using a spreadsheet just to record rides and distances then I guess pretty much any spreadsheet software would do?
The days of calculators and record tables for such an exercise are long gone (we're looking at you @Roadhump )
Nigel-YZ1
Guru
- Location
- Somewhere else... maybe soon.
BTW If anyone uses an Office 365 plan to get MS Office at work, each user is allowed 4 installs on their account. So like me you could use it at home.
I don't know how many IT departments let anyone know that.
I know cos I am the IT department here
I don't know how many IT departments let anyone know that.
I know cos I am the IT department here
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
BTW If anyone uses an Office 365 plan to get MS Office at work, each user is allowed 4 installs on their account. So like me you could use it at home.
I don't know how many IT departments let anyone know that.
I know cos I am the IT department here
That was my way back in. Wasn't going to pay for it was I!Best thing is my kids now have access to the genuine article Word, Excel, etc for schoolwork which was the big sticking point of the generic stuff. Nothing screwed up a presentation more than trying to show an OpenOffice piece on the PowerPoint platform
Roadhump
Time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted
- Location
- The flatlands of South West Lancs
Google Drive has word processor and spreadsheet apps very similar to Office in appearance and functionality, they are cloud based as opposed to device based, and I use them. For private use they are ideal and I wouldn't spend my money on Office.
About 20 years ago I started noting the mileage, average speed, total distance etc on an Excel spreadsheet, and sometimes wrote about where I went, like a diary, in a Word document. I started doing the same again about 5 years ago using Google Drive, but often asked myself why I was doing so because nobody, probably not even me, will ever read it, but I found it quite relaxing. Now I use 4 different bikes, I have ended up with 4 different documents and it started to get a bit messy and time consuming, so from now on I am just going to keep a spreadsheet and itemise the bike, but add the mileage up in one place.
It would be even easier to just use Strava or Mapmyride (I use both), and get a calculator out occasionally, but obsessive compulsives R Us in my life.
I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
Spreadsheet is the way. Column for each bike that totals up in separate columns for each bike and an overall total.
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Deleted member 1258
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I'm on Libra Office, my operating system is Lubuntu.
My Cycling Log does all this and more.
Supersuperleeds
Legendary Member
- Location
- Leicester
I log all my rides on Excel, also have them on Strava and mycyclinglog.
pawl
Legendary Member
- Location
- Desford Leicestershire
Just log mine in a diary.Total miles.Monthly miles.Simple
mybike
Grumblin at Garmin on the Granny Gear
- Location
- Not 'emel 'empstead
Like MS Office, it has a spreadsheet application, is free, open source and works on Windows/OSX/Linux. There are differences but mostly it works the same.
