On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Jon Drews wrote: > On 2/17/06, JT Moree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is not to justify misusing spreadsheets. They have thier >> uses and >> they are versatile but should not be the only tool in someone's >> bag of >> tricks. > > I will leave it to Robert to comment on the other deficiencies of > spreadsheets.
My take: Use your best judgement. Spreadsheets are great for simple formatting of sets of numbers. Unfortunately, more often people try to turn them in to the end-all-be-all of data manipulation. If the only tool you know is a hammer then all your problems look like nails. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
