On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned: > > > > When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the > > most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of > > data and making a chart. But nobody uses Microsoft tools like > > Microsoft itself: you should have *seen* some of the fancy > > spreadsheets the GM-level staff put together. > > I'm being forced to use Excel and Powerpoint at work. I hate it. It's > not just MS-specific, in this case: I hate data entry, and I hate > prettifying it. Knoppix is your friend! Pop in the cd and edit any excel files! Although I think your out of luck with power-less-point. There are tools to make presentations and ones to create html or ps presentions, if those would be allowed. -Kev > > Hah, vim just indented that line because I had a "case statement" in it. > Too funny! Anyhoo ... > > Where was I? Oh, yes. Using froo-froo presentation tools. It sucks. > Developers shouldn't have to do this crap =/ And definitely shouldn't > be judged by whether they're using the right colors, fonts, etc. > > > > > I have this belief that 90% of jobs are unnecessary; they are just > > something for people to do all day because otherwise they'd go out and > > burn cars. Most of the things I have to do with Excel and Word fall > > in that category. > > > > For small datasets, I finally realized plaintext files and simple > > tools like gnuplot are more flexible than Excel. > > > > > > > -- > monique > PLEASE don't CC me. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top. > Whatever it takes, just don't CC me! I'm already subscribed!! > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
