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   Kommentar till text 5984 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Reality Check
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From: "Geo" <georger@nls.net>

43 works fine in office 2000's excel.

Geo.

"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
news:aq1bd1hju674cl4s4hegq7j4j53g936jg2@4ax.com...
>
> Yet another MS Office XP 2002 annoyance.
>
> I format a cell as percentage.  In order to get 43% in the cell, I have
> to enter .43 in Office XP.  In Office 97, there was some intelligence
> and I could just enter 43, and it would know what I wanted.
>
> I looked and looked for a config parm to change this "feature" back to
> the Office '97 way of doing things, but I can't find anything.
>
>
>  /m
>
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:59:29 -0400, Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >Office '97 here at home.  Reluctantly, Office XP 2002 at work (the more
> >I use it, the more I want to go back to Office '97).
> >
> > /m
> >
> >On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:29:18 -0400, "Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Ok time for a survey.
> >>
> >>I run Office 2000, what versions do the rest of you run?
> >>
> >>Geo.
> >>
> >>  "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42d29689@w3.nls.net...
> >>     If you truly expect 95% than I believe you are full of it and just
making up junk to sound as if you know something.  Use "some" if you mean some.
> >>
> >>  Rich
> >>
> >>    "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
news:42d292af$1@w3.nls.net...
> >>    I never said it wasn't.  What is it about the definition of the
words "I
> >>    Suspect" that seem to so trouble your reading comprehension.  Quit
being
> >>    such a touchy ass about this.  Its not my fault nobody wants to
upgrade
> >>    their MS Office software.
> >>
> >>    Your employer needs to build a business model that doesn't rely upon
full
> >>    cost monopoly priced upgrades of products every 9 months.  That
isn't my
> >>    fault either.  Eventually, people say "wait a minute", again not my
fault.
> >>
> >>    I guess Microsoft could get lots of office upgrades if they just
make
> >>    Longhorn incompatible with every version of MS Office except <FILL
IN NAME
> >>    OF VERSION HERE>.
> >>
> >>    Gary
> >>
> >>    "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42d28167@w3.nls.net...
> >>       And I still think you have no clue.  The 95% you keep claiming is
a
> >>    number you pulled out of thin air.
> >>
> >>    Rich
> >>
> >>      "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
> >>    news:42d265b2$1@w3.nls.net...
> >>      You are right that my perspective does not extend outside the USA.
> >>
> >>      I never said there weren't *improvements* from Office 5.0 to the
later
> >>      versions.  I am saying those *improvements* are meaningless to 95%
of the
> >>      market, and in MANY or MOST situations those *improvements* are
offset by
> >>      dis-incentives and negative changes that are more negative than
the
> >>      improvements are positive.
> >>
> >>      I like office 2000, have no plans to go above office 2000.  Truth
is, I
> >>      could easily stayed with Office 5.  I suspect that truth holds for
95% of
> >>      the market within my perspective.
> >>
> >>      Gary
> >>
> >>      "Rich" <@> wrote in message news:42d1b1ad$1@w3.nls.net...
> >>         95% what market?  You surely do not mean people that speak many
> >>      non-Western languages because Unicode support did not appear until
Office
> >>    97
> >>      and support for more languages and better support for existing
ones
> >>      continued to improve with successive releases.  With your broad
brush you
> >>      are discounting a great deal of the people on this planet.  Far
more than
> >>      5%.  Western European language speaker are the minority.  Even you
would
> >>      have to be blind to not see the clear improvements between Office
5.0 or
> >>      even Office 95 and Office 2000.
> >>
> >>         I suspect you have no clue what the improvements are in the two
> >>    releases
> >>      since the one you use.  If I'm wrong feel free to tell us all
which Office
> >>      2003 applications you use and what differences you perceived.
> >>
> >>      Rich
> >>
> >>        "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com> wrote in message
> >>      news:42d194f6$1@w3.nls.net...
> >>        The truth be told, Office for Win95 and Office 5.0 for Win3.1
was good
> >>        enough for 95% of the market.
> >>
> >>        I've stayed at the Office 2K level with no intention on the
horizon of
> >>      going
> >>        higher.
> >>
> >>        Gary
> >>
>

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