[ale] A Real Sad Loss for Open Source in the Atlanta Area

[Greg Freemyer]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 14:25 -0400, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> > In a former life I was an accountant in Hotels that probably have
> > budgets not better than schools.  I became a spreadsheet power user
> > simply because we didn’t have programmers – you’d be amazed what you
> > can do with macros in built in HAL programming in Lotus 123.   Since I
> > made the move to full time IT before M$ had started giving away Excel
> > I’m not sure how good it is in this regard but I’d be surprised if it
> > didn’t do as much (now).   My guess is there ARE power users in
> > schools simply because they had to be to get anything done without 50
> > committees and a session before the school board.
>
> Correct.  I would suspect that most people on this list, including me,
> have no clue about what can be done with Excel.  My wife spends hours
> per day in that program and I've tried to give her OO on her laptop but
> unfortunately it just does not support as much as Excel does.  For UPS,
> she use Excel at work, they pay for it.  When Office 2000 fails to load
> on newer systems I she'll have to use OO because I'm not paying for
> Excel.
>
>
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.

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.

Greg
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