[mso] Re: Excel vs Access vs Word...a FRIENDLY discussion (wasDian please AND OTHERS)
- From: Katherine Driskell Felts <subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:54:51 -0500
Yeah, but other than pushing the sum button on the toolbar, there is very
little you can do in Excel without speaking a very code-similar math--at
least for this creative wordsmith. AVG ($B$6, E6), don't even bring up the
ifs... I was trying to put together a time-tracking sheet on Excel and
spent a good half a day, got help from two people on this forum, and it was
like 3 tries before I didn't have a sheet full of #Value!. I ain't dumb
(though I'm starting to wonder...) but the help file made no sense to me.
So, who can I bill for that time on the time-tracking sheet?!?
Excel is powerful, but you have to speak a different language, and it ain't
English...
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Katherine Driskell Felts
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> From: "Linda F. Johnson" <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 10:13:42 -0400
> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [mso] Excel vs Access vs Word...a FRIENDLY discussion (was Dian
> please AND OTHERS)
>
> << Maturity - "I choose not to code if it can be avoided">>
>
> WOOOHOOOO...that would be me...I am SO glad to see that someone FINALLY sees
> me as mature
>
> LOL
>
> Another thing....as someone who came to know all the Office products via the
> troubleshooting field (most people are users first...I did this kinda
> backwards....worked help desk on them BEFORE I'd ever really used
> them)...anyway, I can tell you for a FACT that Excel is HANDS DOWN
> Microsoft's cleanest, most trouble-free program....if you don't believe me,
> look at the help forums on Word, then look at the ones on Excel....a LOT of
> Word and Access questions are things like "This program is driving me
> nuts...it won't do what I tell it to do" or "Every time I do this, Word
> crashes"...and the replies are usually, "Use this code to blah blah
> blah"...or better yet, "that's a known issue and here's the workaround" (my
> own personal fave LOL)....but Excel? In the Excel forums, the questions you
> hear are more like, "Which function should I use if I want to calculate blah
> blah?" and the replies USUALLY do not require VBA...and you RARELY hear
> problems about Excel crashing (it happens, just not that much, as compared
> to the other programs)
>
> It's my opinion that Excel remains Microsoft's best trick....it's lean,
> clean and mean :-)
>
>
> Linda F. Johnson, M.A., MOS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Ray Blake
> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 2:42 AM
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [mso] Re: OT: Dian please AND OTHERS
>
> And here is the crux of this whole argument. You are far more likely to be
> able to do the clever stuff without programming in Excel than in ANY other
> programme.
>
>
>
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