[rescue] Spreadsheets

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Sat Jun 21 11:41:05 CDT 2003


On Saturday 21 June 2003 15:30, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> Excel is possibly the most usefull MS product, and quite possibly also
> the most abused.  In theory SIAG, Gnumeric, and OpenOffice can keep up,
> but I haven't seen anyone pull it off yet.

I find it unreliable.

I used it last, 2 years ago, for 3 hours. Result: 3 hours of lost work.

And your data (and lots more :-D ) gets saed in some binary propriktary
format. Naaaaaah... not for me :-)

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