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From: Gordon on 14 Jan 2010 14:00 Conor wrote: > > It goes out on every laptop I sell. > Doesn't mean to say you've USED it.
From: chrisv on 14 Jan 2010 14:01 Gordon wrote: >Well as I said, I've worked in several large UK corporations over some >years, and they just haven't needed to use VBA or Macros. It does depend >on the output from whaterver ERM system you are using - the less >sophisticated the more the user is likley to need Macros and VBA. >It's just my experience that these are few and far between - certainly >not sufficiently frequent to justify the wholesale use of MS Office... Same here. Very few even use spreadsheets at all, and those that do usually use them as simply a convenient way to organize textual information into rows and columns. No doubt there a few power users, and few data-entry people who feed the spreadsheets created by power users, but, as you say, these are few and far between. Everyone with in office in my company gets the full-blown Word/Excel/Outlook/Infopath/Powerpoint/Publisher/Access package. What's done with this huge, expensive package? Email, meeting scheduling, light word processing. That's about it. Ridiculous.
From: Conor on 14 Jan 2010 14:01 In article <himm95$bkj$00$1(a)news.t-online.com>, Peter K�hlmann says... > > Gordon wrote: > > > Conor wrote: > > > >> > >> Quite probably. You'll also find they're using MS Office as well. > >> > > > > For the few users only who need functions which are not in OO. And > > that's not many. > > Well, what function exactly would be missing? > OK, tried to do this in Calc today. Tried dragging down columns to get a value un each subsequent row to increase in 10's (10,20,30 etc). It steadfastly refused to even when I manually entered the first and second values and instead was intent in going up in 1's. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Gordon on 14 Jan 2010 14:01 Conor wrote: > In article <7r83hoF6tkU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Gordon says... >> >> Conor wrote: >> >> >> >> > Wrong. The vast majority of office users are in a corporate environment. >> > OOo is not suitable for their needs. >> > >> >> Drivel. I was a Systems Accountant up till a few years ago and I can >> tell you that MOST corporate users do NOT use any functionality that is >> in MS Office but not in Open Office. Period. > > Then you're bullshitting about your job. > And you sell laptops. What qualifications do YOU have for working in large organisations in data manipulation?
From: Gordon on 14 Jan 2010 14:03
Conor wrote: > OK, tried to do this in Calc today. > > Tried dragging down columns to get a value un each subsequent row to > increase in 10's (10,20,30 etc). It steadfastly refused to even when I > manually entered the first and second values and instead was intent in > going up in 1's. Works perfectly OK here....... |