Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-16 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Wol's lists wrote: > > > Concrete example which hit a couple of friends of mine ... > > Expat Americans, didn't declare their income to the American authorities. even without declaration issues: scenario: you friend buy an asset in

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-16 Thread Wol's lists
On 16/04/18 14:19, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: They are of tax-purpose interest. when you actually performed a currency transaction you may not have performed a currency transaction at the time. but 20 years later, for tax purpose, you need to 'convert' the value of something at the time from

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-16 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 12:02 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: >> (obligatory rant: _current_ exchange or stock market rates in >> spreadsheet functions have close to zero practical value, and only >> encourage people to do shitty accounting. > > > Indeed. I am not an accountant or economist,

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-05 Thread Jan Iversen
Sent from my iPad > On 5 Apr 2018, at 11:40, toki wrote: > >> On 04/04/2018 09:31 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >> >> Great list, thx for breaking it down! > > Were I working on a set of extensions to provide that functionality, I'd > break it down into even more

"Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-05 Thread toki
On 04/04/2018 09:31 PM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Great list, thx for breaking it down! Were I working on a set of extensions to provide that functionality, I'd break it down into even more groups. That discussion, and breakdown would occur on day one of a Scrum Sprint. > There's an

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-04 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> > (obligatory rant: _current_ exchange or stock market rates in > spreadsheet functions have close to zero practical value, and only > encourage people to do shitty accounting. Indeed. I am not an accountant or economist, but I would say that even historical exchange rates are of, well,

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi *, toki wrote: > On 04/02/2018 09:48 AM, Heiko Tietze wrote: > > Interesting question - filed a ticket in BZ > > > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116744 > Commented there, few more bits for this thread: > From my perspective, it looks like Microsoft Excell 2019 is

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-04 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi, On Sunday, 2018-04-01 20:12:32 +, toki wrote: > There was an extension for OOo that pulled exchange rates, and stock > prices from Yahoo. It worked until Yahoo decided to upgrade it, by > reducing functionality, capability, and overall usability of their > financial portal. A fork added

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-02 Thread toki
On 04/02/2018 09:48 AM, Heiko Tietze wrote: > Interesting question - filed a ticket in BZ > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116744 From my perspective, it looks like Microsoft Excell 2019 is offering the following additional functionality: * Real Time Currency Exchange

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-02 Thread Heiko Tietze
microsoft-excel-going-beyond-text-numbers > > Possible comming Excel functions like USDinYEN(), EURinUSD(), CADtoUSD() or > GBPtoEUR(). > Where everytime the current exchange rate is taken from the internet and > used. > > So the new Excel will be the old Excel plus a big da

Re: "Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-01 Thread toki
On 04/01/2018 01:57 PM, the User BL wrote: > To be compatibe to actual and future version of Excel this news could be > interesting for you: More formulas for those who think such things are indicators of how good/bad a spreadsheet program is. > USDinYEN(), EURinUSD(), CADtoUSD() or GBPtoEUR()

"Microsoft Excel Is Going Beyond Text and Numbers"

2018-04-01 Thread theUser BL
To be compatibe to actual and future version of Excel this news could be interesting for you: https://www.thurrott.com/office/155211/microsoft-excel-going-beyond-text-numbers Possible comming Excel functions like USDinYEN(), EURinUSD(), CADtoUSD() or GBPtoEUR(). Where everytime the current