<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:25 -0400, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> In a former life I was an accountant in Hotels that probably have<br>
> budgets not better than schools. I became a spreadsheet power user<br>
> simply because we didn’t have programmers – you’d be amazed what you<br>
> can do with macros in built in HAL programming in Lotus 123. Since I<br>
> made the move to full time IT before M$ had started giving away Excel<br>
> I’m not sure how good it is in this regard but I’d be surprised if it<br>
> didn’t do as much (now). My guess is there ARE power users in<br>
> schools simply because they had to be to get anything done without 50<br>
> committees and a session before the school board.<br>
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</div>Correct. I would suspect that most people on this list, including me,<br>
have no clue about what can be done with Excel. My wife spends hours<br>
per day in that program and I've tried to give her OO on her laptop but<br>
unfortunately it just does not support as much as Excel does. For UPS,<br>
she use Excel at work, they pay for it. When Office 2000 fails to load<br>
on newer systems I she'll have to use OO because I'm not paying for<br>
Excel.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>To be honest, if I have a lot of "database" work to do in Excel, I exclusively use Excel 2007. It is far more efficient than 2003 or 2000 for sorting and filtering. <br>
<br>fyi: I use linux desktop, but if I feel the need for MS Office I use tsclient to remote into a windows 2008 terminal server and do my work there.<br><br>Greg <br></div></div><br>