On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:34:38AM +1100, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for linux.
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 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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
