Excel/Office 2007 - Who uses it?

[Domski]

I haven't used the main XL2007 help much, but whoever did that to the VBA help should be taken out and beaten, IMO.

And there was me hoping you might know their identity Rory

 

[RoryA]

If I'm invited to the Summit next year, I will try and go just to find that out!

 

[Greg Truby]

...but whoever did that to the VBA help should be taken out and beaten, IMO.

If you bring a nice cricket bat, I'll <S>hold the rascal down</S> sit on him -- that ought to keep the rascal pinned while you knock some sense into him.

 

[TinaP]

I have it, but I'm not terribly impressed with it. I don't like the ribbon concept; most features are even harder to find.

 

[Patience]

I ticked the yeah option, but really I wanted, 'Yes I use it, but I am not enthralled.' Hmm.

 

[xenou]

I foun an interesting site today for financial analysts and modelers - seems they've run their own poll as well.

http://www.fi-mech.com/the+swamp+fox/archive/06/#Feature2

Alex

 

[Smitty]

If you bring a nice cricket bat, I'll <S>hold the rascal down</S> sit on him -- that ought to keep the rascal pinned while you knock some sense into him.

You'd better show up this time!

 

[xld]

Lord Bob
I think all of those remarks are fair and accurate, and don't get me wrong about Karl. Karl is awesome and I have learned tons and tons from him and his site. So much so, I wish he had a section about .Net that was as deep as his VB6 site. But he doesn't and so the community has had to march on without him... And they did. And now for most modern development it's a world without Karl.

And how much impact has that dramatic example had on Microsoft? Exactly.

I'm not saying Office12 is perfect in every way, wanting in nothing. I'm just observing that MS isn't well known for listening to their user community. They will continue in the direction they are heading with or without my support. And in the mean time I need a paycheck

And to your point about Apple taking market share, all I can say is you are right. Office 2003 is missing a lot of things it could be doing... Of course the only way to fix that would be to change the product ;D

Oh and as for Open Source. I love and support Open Source... But it's free... See previous comments about needing a paycheck.

Oorang,

I think we have to pretty well aligned overall views, even if we differ around the edges

My point about Karl is that he like everyone else is free to make his own course, follow his own direction. He was/is a VB6 giant, but MS cut him because they couldn't stand the criticism (the final straw was probably the VB6 petition). He may be a bit over-eager in voicing his opinion (Understatement?), but that doesn't sound like a confident, listening company to me. That is a big weakness in the MS structure IMO as they are sure they know best; they are sure SQM data is the best you can get (true if best = lowest common denominator); they are sure that their technical soothsayers are the best even though they have been late to every major technological change over the past 15 years and then missed the point when they have jumped aboard; and they are sure that their graphical designers are the best even though they flout all of the basic rules of good graphics/UI/visual effect.