If Humanware decides to use Pocket Excel, I hope they do a much
better job than the competition. It would be necessary to be able to
hear the column and/or row header from whichever cell you are in so
you can keep track of where you are, especially in a complex or large
spreadsheet.
Richard
on Friday 8/4/2006 12:55 PM Rusty Perez said
Hi folks,
On the subject of XL, I'm not saying I don't want it. I'm saying that for
the purposes of financial management, XL is not the right tool for the job
for most of us.
By all means, HW should put pocket XL on the BN, but they should also create
a financial management package for those of us for whom XL is not the
answer.
Rusty
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Hello Rusty,
I believe that you have some good ideas here.
But I would say that many college students need excel because that is simply
what is used on campus.
So, I would say, if it is possible, maybe Humanware could eventually make it
so that one could easily choose which they prefer.
Just a suggestion.
Robert
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>From: "Rusty Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:45:09 -0700
>Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Vitally important suggestion for the
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>Hi folks,
>This was obviously a popular topic and it brings to light the
real necessity
>of a financial package on the BN.
>In answer to those who are afraid of carrying financial info on
their bn,
>there are several possibilities that I can think of.
>1. The program could be password protected. To enter the
keymoney program,
>please enter your password.
>2. The most obvious argument is, who's going to seek out
braillenotes and
>learn how to hack them just to learn my sorry financial state?
This is such
>an obscure device that HW is not designing a virus package
because people
>won't write viruses for it.
>3. I certainly wouldn't store SSN ETC.
>4. Put your finances on a flash card and store it some where
else.
>As for working across platforms, I believe that Quicken uses a
file format
>that can be shared. If not, there are exchangible file formats.
So you could
>work on the BN and then import that info in to your pc program.
In addition,
>many banks offer you the ability to download account history
suitable for
>import in to your money program. To be really useful, The
keymoney program
>should support these file formats and play well with other
programs.
>As for this idea of using XL, this is exactly what I suggest we
stay away
>from. I respect the idea that many people are taught to use XL
to manage
>their money. I also respect the idea that xl is a powerful
program, but
>something like quicken takes the difficulty out of things. I
don't think
>most want to learn how to configure quicken, set up formulas,
lable rows and
>columns, ETC! I believe that more people will use a program which
does the
>thinking for them.
>I suggest that it should have several entry fields. Type of
transaction
>(ATM, check, deposit ETC,) category (household, business,
investment,
>entertainment, ETC,) Check number (if aplicable,) account,
amount, it will
>enter the date and do an automatic calculation of what I should
have in my
>account. It could also add or subtract from a running total,
based on the
>category, of how much I've spent in a particular area and show me
how much
>I've spent in a particular budget area.
>Since I don't now use a financial package, but will start soon, I
don't
>really know what else it might have just yet.
>If this is not the only program I use, then it should be able to
store the
>info so I can then cync to the PC later.
>Additionally, there should be a set of formulas, interest
calculator,
>compound interest calculator, stuff like this.
>This is not anything new. I believe that some other program such
as quicken
>could, and should, be ported to the BN. No sense reinventing the
wheel, and
>it makes sense to stay as close to the industry standards as
possible.
>Thanks for reading!
>Rusty
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>Ray, you raise an excellent point; and this is definitely a major
point
>against such a feature.
>As Ray has said, we use MS Excel for our finances and it works
well. It is
>more secure too because it is less portable. This is why I won't
keep
>financial information on my VN.
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