Jeff....here's a couple links to Excel groups where the gurus hang out. Maybe some of them can help you:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ExcelQuestions http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ms_excel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/excelusers Hope this helps and I'm really sorry you are having such a bad time with Excel. Personally, I think Excel is one of Microsoft's best programs. If you think Excel has bugs, you should spend more time playing around in Word!! Linda Publisher ~ ABC ~ All 'Bout Computers Owner ~ Linda's Computer Stop http://personal-computer-tutor.com FREE MS Office eBook Tutorial http://personal-computer-tutor.com/library.htm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jeff Dougherty Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:11 AM To: PCWorks mailing list Subject: PCWorks: Excell XP revisited, one more time OK..I'm really fed up with this program. You meant to tell me I am the only person that types something in a field and wished it to stay the same way as I typed it? I found out by accident many, many of my values have changed to some kind of stupid numeral value, date or other. This is totally ridiculous! They make this program with an auto-save function in case your computer dies, or loses power, but then I have these kind of problems? When I type 9-1999, I want it to stay that way. I have several hundred, possibly thousands of values that have changed. These are all model numbers or chassis numbers of television sets. I have no idea how to change these back! I need a program like Excel where I can save the files as CSV to import into a database program. I think I tried thios with MS database, but this one limits the amount of records you can have..which worked OK, until I hit this limit. I am going to bed now as I am really fed up with Microsoft. I have no idea where I am going to find the time to fix all these errors, if I even can. You spend all this money on their program,then can't get it to do what you want it to do. I know I have set these cells for "general" in the past...how this got changed, or when, I don't know. Can anyone please guide me to a program or some kind of solution other than using MS Excel? I know about Star Office, but didn't really want to install that large program. Thank you...and sorry for the rant. Jeff ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
