Graphing from Spreadsheet Data

[Longjump]

I have been following your forum for a while now and am very encouraged by what I read. A very high quality forum.

I have noticed how many of the posters have included some fantastic graphics - presumably made from Excel data.

Some time ago I came across an article with great graphing and at the end the author was giving credit to his software, that could access data directly from the spreadsheet and also overlay graphs and set the start points to match. At the time I did visit the www of the software and recall it costing $30-60. It had a short name (it certainly wasn't mainstream) like XJ3. However, foolishly I made no note of the name and now cannot find it despite numerous contorted searches.

I use OpenOffice as a spreadsheet and the graphing is lamentable? What are other using to produce such great results?

[Storm]

I have been following your forum for a while now and am very encouraged by what I read. A very high quality forum.

I have noticed how many of the posters have included some fantastic graphics - presumably made from Excel data.

Some time ago I came across an article with great graphing and at the end the author was giving credit to his software, that could access data directly from the spreadsheet and also overlay graphs and set the start points to match. At the time I did visit the www of the software and recall it costing $30-60. It had a short name (it certainly wasn't mainstream) like XJ3. However, foolishly I made no note of the name and now cannot find it despite numerous contorted searches.

I use OpenOffice as a spreadsheet and the graphing is lamentable? What are other using to produce such great results?

Google Docs does decent graphing for being free.  It's not as good as Excel, though.

[Longjump]

Storm - than you. Maybe I will have to go back to Excel - I was becoming very happy with OpenOffice.

BTW I am sure that I have now located this graphing software  - www.DPlot.com, it seems that the recommendation that I came across a couple of months back has resulted in them putting their prices up to $195. I have downloaded the trial but it doesn't seem fantastic. Despite the fact that it is aimed more at the scientific community, I am surprised to see that it cannot accommodate two vertical axes for example.

Is anyone using Openoffice with third party graphing software that they like?

I can see that this issue hasn't exactly set the board alight