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From: Conor on 15 Jan 2010 14:43 In article <20100115154005.2046.10892.XPN(a)gordon-laptop>, Gordon says... > I'm not saying that NO-ONE uses macros or VBA. Really? You claimed that you'd not seen anyone use it in the companies that were stupid enough to employ you. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 15 Jan 2010 14:44 In article <20100115091557.2116.51145.XPN(a)gordon-laptop>, Gordon says... > > Conor wrote: > > > Excel is the only thing that counts. > > No - Excel is the only thing that businesses have been conned into > using... Not really. When it came out, there wasn't anything that equalled it. It won based on its own merits. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 15 Jan 2010 14:45 In article <20100115121732.2116.83278.XPN(a)gordon-laptop>, Gordon says... > Quite capable of keeping jobs down thank you very much. Your CV says differently. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Conor on 15 Jan 2010 14:46 In article <20100115165202.2046.12680.XPN(a)gordon-laptop>, Gordon says... > > Conor wrote: > > > > > "PeterK�hlmann" <peter-koehlmann(a)t-online.de> wrote in message > > news:hiq59v$llv$02$1(a)news.t-online.com... > > > >> And you are totally ignoring that OO has nearly the same menu > >> structure of > >> MSO. In fact, it is *much* more similar to the versions pre-MSO2007 > >> than > >> the newer MS versions. > >> > > Thankyou for demonstrating your complete ignorance of the corporate > > market. > > > > How is that ignorance? Many many corporations are NOT "upgrading" to > Office 2007 because of that very fact! Again, wrong. They're not upgrading for the same reasons they're not moving from XP. -- Conor www.notebooks-r-us.co.uk I'm not prejudiced. I hate everybody equally.
From: Rick on 15 Jan 2010 15:49
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:36:58 +0000, Conor wrote: > In article <pan.2010.01.14.22.20.43.533501(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk>, Phil > Stovell says... > >> > Thankyou for confirming you've never worked in a corporate >> > environment. >> >> 20 years ago I used to advise on software for a large bank in the City >> of London. >> > Irrelevent experience. > > Sorry I'll rephrase it then: > > Thankyou for confirming you've not worked in a corporate environment > recently. > >> >> Are you saying that MSO won't format OO ODF documents properly? >> >> >> > No, I'm saying OOo doesn't format .doc properly. >> >> That isn't what I asked. Does MSO format OO documents correctly? >> > It doesn't have to. MSO is the defacto standard, everyone else needs to > support it. No, everyone doesn't. > >> > In business, the only thing that counts is if it works in the most >> > popular application used worldwide. >> >> I give up. > > Because you've just been told the reality of it? ... you just keep believing that. -- Rick |