Re: Grading & Excel-dropping 1

["Prof. John P. Ertel (wizard)" <jpe@nadn.navy.mil>]

The comments of Hugh Haskell below are, in my mind, right on the money
(forgive the pun)!  After almost two years of having the full Microsoft
Office (Word-6, Excel-5, etc.), most of us here at the Naval Academy
(almost entirely Mac) have chosen to stick with good old Word-5 and
Excel-4.

It also seems that most of the colleagues across the country from who I
have heard feel as we do here at the Academy.  The only exceptions have
been for those that are heavily involved in HTML.  Word-6 has a
significant WYSIWYG channel to HTML output.  Additionally, Excel-5 is some
help in building TABLES for HTML.

That having been said, even with the HTML niceties of the newer Microsoft
Office package, many still seem to find the older Word-5 and Excel-4 much
friendlier, and then they use some other product (PageMill, WebWeaver,
etc.) to move there documents to HTML.  And of course there is the "huge"
disk space requirements of the newer Microsoft Office package.

This will probably change as it becomes more and more difficult to pass
documents back and forth to Windows when others are using WinWord-97 and
WinExcel-97.  For right now, I'm content to be a stick in the mud and stay
with the older products.


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On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Hugh Haskell wrote:

> Vern Lindberg Wrote:
> > The more general problem is tough, since Excel seems to allow soprting by
> > column values only, and not by rows.  The accounting spreadsheet bias again.
> I don't think that's correct. When you choose the sort command, you get a
> dialog box that has the choice of rows or columns in the upper left hand
> corner. At least that's what I get with Excel 4.0 for the Mac. No
telling
> what Mr. Bill has done with the new version of Excel. It wouldn't surprise
> me at all if he took it out of version 5. One reason why I trashed Excel 5
> and Word 6 very shortly after I spent all that money to get them. Unless I
> hear something really good about their successors, that money was the last
> that Micro$oft will ever drag out of my wallet.
>
> Hugh
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> Hugh Haskell
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> The box said "Requires Windows 95 or better." So I bought a Macintosh.
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