Re: Excel Problem

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Joerg wrote:
JosephKK wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:36:02 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Jim Thompson wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:30:35 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:20:25 -0700, Joerg <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

[snip]
... I use MS-Works database for this, comes pre-installed
on most PCs.
I've got XP-Pro. Can't find MS-works. Where does it hide out?

It may not always come pre-loaded with XP-Pro computers. Did come with
nearly all my PCs though. I do not like Version 8.0 much, has a
copy&paste bug that rears its ugly head at times where it just doesn't
want to paste. Not sure how version 9 fares but they all have the
database and that's the only item that matters to me:

http://store.purplus.net/miwo9.html

Usually it's the same with many such products, the older the more
stable. I run all my book-keeping stuff with it. Business records, tax
prep records, parts inventory, billing, all databases.

For example if a client wants to know how many hours I am into their XYZ
project I can tell them within seconds. Click filter, enter project
name, click report -> tada.
I use "Responsive Time Logger" for those occasional by-the-hour
projects.

But it looks like "Works" is cheap enough to see how it might work for
GS registration data... the wife informs me that Excel is just what
our local neighborhood is using... NOT cast in stone by the "down-town
empire" ;-)
Try Open Office 3 from Sun. Its freeware, that works.

I had MS works on the PC that died recently. I don't have the program
by itself, and the restore disk only works on that motherboard so I
installed Open Office on another computer and salvaged all my 'Works'
files.

OO's database? Yuck.
The idea is OK, it is the implementation that I have arguments with.
Still once I learned how to handle its stupidities of implementation
it is usable.
Maybe, but then you might as well use MS-Works or Access. Then you also
have file formats that pretty much anyone else can read.


I also used it to convert hundreds of older .doc files to the version
XP uses. Most files can be written to a lot of different formats, where
Microsoft can't import files from its own older versions. That is one
of the things that makes it harder to use, but I installed it for free,
rather than sit there and convert everything to .txt files on an old
computer, move them to XP, and restore the formatting, one file at a
time. It read an old file, then I saved it in the new format.


Strange, I can read in files I created in the 90's, no problem. Regular MS-Word. All except one PC here run XP now but that didn't change a thing WRT *.doc files. And it shouldn't.

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