Peter, We might as well go for broke and conform to what everyone else does: Spreadsheet --> Workbook Sheet --> Worksheet
But I would just as soon leave it alone...for the sake of being different. I think that spreadsheet and sheet are synonymous and _are_ very difficult to use...I catch myself confusing them constantly. But I am flexible on this...Workbook and Worksheet seem like good substitutes. On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 19:12 -0600, Peter Kupfer wrote: > Rick Barnes wrote: > > Not that I agree, mind you, but if you want to comply with the > > "generally accepted" terminology (that is fall into compliance with > > Micro$oft, etc.), you should use: > > > > Spreadsheet --> Workbook > > > > Sheet --> Worksheet > > > > ...I would say either do it completely or don't do it at all. > > > > That is fine also. > > I prefer the term Spreadsheet over Worksheet because, if nothing is > called a spreadsheet, why is it a spreadsheet program? > > As long as there is some distinction made between the file as a whole > and one of the tabs, I will be a happy camper. :) > > What would you suggest? > -- Rick Barnes www.nostabo.net ************************************************* There are 10 kinds of people, those that can read binary numbers and those that can't... --> Sent via Evolution 2.0.4 running on a Linux 2.6.11 Gentoo kernel.
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