On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Andrew <<a href="mailto:keen101@gmail.com">keen101@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> I've heard of at least one other Open Source spread sheet software, but unfortunately I can't remember the name at the moment. -- Ubuntu-us-co mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-us-co@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-co</a> </blockquote></div> Jim, You may know of it, but there's Gnumeric: <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/faq.shtml">http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/faq.shtml</a> Other than that I don't know of any "easy" ones.  Python has modules that do kick butt graphics, and R can also, but those are programming languages and not a short-term plan. I don't mean to sound rude at all, but 3d bar graphs are somewhat frowned on and considered tacky in college science courses, even though you see them everywhere in popular media.  Here's a style guide: <a href="http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/display.html">http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/display.html</a>  I did notice, also, on the Gnumeric page that their example bar graph was 2d: <a href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/new-pics/sample-chart.png">http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/new-pics/sample-chart.png</a> Here's a funny discussion of Microsoft's Access 2007 printing out 3d graphs as a default.  I can't view any of the "solutions", though, as I'm not a premium member: <a href="http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/MS_Access/Q_22740215.html">http://www.experts-exchange.com/Microsoft/Development/MS_Access/Q_22740215.html</a> Don't you hate how so many of these "expert's" forums show you the question and then try to make you pay to see the "expert's" solutions?   That's a trend on the net that has overstayed its welcome.... Good luck Richard <a href="http://coldfrontramblings.blogspot.com">coldfrontramblings.blogspot.com</a>