Jeff, you mention Star Program and it being a large program. I don't find Star Office 6.0 large, and I have checked their spreadsheet using mixed characters and it works. I first had to format the cells as TEXT and save. Then when I recalled the saved program and entered a value such as 25E5, it retained this value and didn't convert to a numeral, but one must first "Format the cells as TEXT" and save, then it works There's a few things that are a bit different to MS OFFICE2000, which I have used since it came out in 99, upgrading from Office97, but like you, I'm SICK of Microsoft, period and their tenacious WMA actions have me looking for perhaps Heaven forbid, didn't think I'd ever do it, but Apple/MAC might be my choice in the near future. . time will tell. Ed - - [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS I have the Star Office $75 version
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Dougherty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "PCWorks mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 9:10 PM 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 Intrepid Video & Electronics Be careful of your thoughts. 501 Luther Rd They may become your words Harrisburg, PA 17111 any moment. 717-909-8844 ============= 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 =====================================================
