Nick Skoblenick wrote:
i have never heard of you till last week, i only use MsExcel and MsWord , its
all i know but In my kind of work, inventory control, working with numbers on
HUGE spread sheets and TRYING to keep it simple I've realized a feature that
NO-ONE does ... now maybe you can be the first.
In inventory control, you work with product numbers, USP codes and catalogues
of product ... NUMBERS. If we know that a customer, wants a specific item, but
they know what it looks like, but have no ID number, it's nearly impossible to
find, ... you know in what category its in, but thats all. I realize , what i'm
about to suggest takes a great deal of space, but soon memory will be cheap
enough and dvd's will become a norm for product Identification and description.
In excel, now open office, you have a 'comment' box that can be added to each cell that
describes a product or cell identification in any detail, you want to add ... but ... a
picture is worth a thousand words. As the hand, cursor, moves over the cell, this comment
box, pops-up automatically. Why do you not have a thumbnail (pixel count determinedby
'prperties', this way, you can scroll down the cells in any column, FAST, st see the
product ... NOT just a NUMBER, that you are looking for. Excel does not have it, but it
would be extremely easy to also include "cut and paste" or hyperlink an image
(thumbnail) to each 'comment cell'. Instead of a red triangle in the upper left corner of
the cell, indicating a comment present, you can put another 'symbol', to indicate an
image of the subject available.
I hope you understand what i'm trying to explain. I know i would greastly
appreciate this option, and those who have large amounts of images,
photographs, ... whatever , can now manage what is in the comment box allot
easier, and will not come up on screen, till the cursor is over that specific
'identification' in that cell, all you know is that there is an image available
of that products, if you want to see it, if your curious.
nick skoblenick
47 sovereign street, west
waterford, ontario
canada n0e-1y0
(519) 443-6542
good luck ... merry Christmas !
It sounds like for what you are doing a database is far more appropriate
than a spreadsheet. OpenOffice.org does include a database application
which might be able to do what you need right now. If that does not
work, since OpenOffice is open source a software developer who is
familiar with C++ could probably write the code for this function. That
is something that is possible with open source software like OOo, but
not with proprietary software like Excel.
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