I know this forum is a bit top-heavy with Excel users. May I ask a question?
Why do people use Excel for text-only (ahem...) documentation?
I get these Excel files (listing of courses) that contain nothing but text. No numbers, no formula or calculations. Just text.
They are a major pain in the butt for me. Depending on how the cells have been sized, you get things like:
Microsoft
Office 2000:
Deployment
and
Administratio
n
Or cell text that is visibly truncated. Like:
11090
which is actually 110906_Eng (a hyperlink to a page on the course).
This seems to me to be poor understanding of documentation, and to me, difficult to use as documentation. And frankly, from a maintainence point of view, HARDER to - ahem - edit.
I don't get it.
faq219-2884
Gerry
My paintings and sculpture
Why do people use Excel for text-only (ahem...) documentation?
I get these Excel files (listing of courses) that contain nothing but text. No numbers, no formula or calculations. Just text.
They are a major pain in the butt for me. Depending on how the cells have been sized, you get things like:
Microsoft
Office 2000:
Deployment
and
Administratio
n
Or cell text that is visibly truncated. Like:
11090
which is actually 110906_Eng (a hyperlink to a page on the course).
This seems to me to be poor understanding of documentation, and to me, difficult to use as documentation. And frankly, from a maintainence point of view, HARDER to - ahem - edit.
I don't get it.
faq219-2884
Gerry
My paintings and sculpture