On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 21:21:38 +0100
Simon Slavin wrote:
> There is never any point in this process when a manager looks at
> what's being done with Excel and says "Okay we need to hire a
> programmer to turn this into a proper App.".
Hmm, there is such a point. I used to do work like that, and
On Sun, 07 Oct 2018 15:25:26 -0600, "Keith Medcalf"
wrote:
> Many people do not "do" web forums. I am one of them.
So am I. But:
> If there is not a mailing list then it does not exist.
The fossil forum sends notification mails, with the full text of
the forum posts, complete with
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>Subject: Re: [sqlite] SQLite Windows GUI alternative to Excel?
>
>On Oct 6, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>>
>>
There's a couple of Tcl/Tk SQLITE database managers that could be more easily
turned into something like the Access GUI than starting from scratch. And they
wouldn't be limited to Windows.
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On Oct 7, 2018, at 12:28 PM, Luuk wrote:
>
> The 'software development department' should forbid 'software
> developmentprojects' which iare not done by them.
Yes, and corporate laptops should be absolutely locked down, so that people
can’t install software not approved by IT, which list will
On 7-10-2018 01:18, Warren Young wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
>>
>> Excel ate the financial business world because companies use Excel to solve
>> a simple problem, then add a feature, then add another feature, and keep
>> going until they have some crawling creeping
On Oct 6, 2018, at 10:23 AM, Warren Young wrote:
>
> What we want is a SQLite-based program along the lines of Access or
> FileMaker, preferably with some kind of cloud capability.
I’ve come up with a plan to do this within Fossil, or as a fork of it:
On 07 Oct 2018, at 00:18, Warren Young wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
>>
>> Excel ate the financial business world because companies use Excel to solve
>> a simple problem, then add a feature, then add another feature, and keep
>> going until they have some crawling
On Oct 6, 2018, at 2:21 PM, Simon Slavin wrote:
>
>
> Excel ate the financial business world because companies use Excel to solve a
> simple problem, then add a feature, then add another feature, and keep going
> until they have some crawling creeping horror that needs to return to R'lyeh.
>
On 6 Oct 2018, at 8:04pm, Luuk wrote:
> Even a simple program (or (gui?)-interface on top of sqlite will not
> stop those Excel-whizz-kids from crafting things in Excel.
Excel ate the financial business world because companies use Excel to solve a
simple problem, then add a feature, then add
On 6-10-2018 18:23, Warren Young wrote:
> On Oct 6, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Roger Schlueter wrote:
>> In addition to the freebies mentioned by Luuk, WordPerfect Office X9 is a
>> commercial product that includes all of Excel's features including
>> import/export of Excel data.
> I guess neither of
On 6 Oct 2018, at 5:23pm, Warren Young wrote:
> What we want is a SQLite-based program along the lines of Access or
> FileMaker, preferably with some kind of cloud capability.
>
> If that wish seems frivolous, realize that we’re not going to get rid of the
> spreadsheet-as-database as long as
On 06 Oct 2018, at 17:23, Warren Young wrote:
> I guess neither of you read the article, because the point of the original
> question isn’t to get recommendations for yet another spreadsheet program,
> it’s to get a program that lets us get away from spreadsheets-as-databases,
> because when
On Oct 6, 2018, at 9:46 AM, Roger Schlueter wrote:
>
> In addition to the freebies mentioned by Luuk, WordPerfect Office X9 is a
> commercial product that includes all of Excel's features including
> import/export of Excel data.
I guess neither of you read the article, because the point of
In addition to the freebies mentioned by Luuk, WordPerfect Office X9 is
a commercial product that includes all of Excel's features including
import/export of Excel data.
https://www.wordperfect.com/en/product/office-suite/?hptrack=mmap
On 10/6/2018 4:40, Winfried wrote:
Hello,
After
On 6-10-2018 13:40, Winfried wrote:
> Hello,
>
> After reading this article…
>
> "In the workplace, spreadsheet experts face a constant barrage of help
> requests"
> https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-rule-of-microsoft-exceldont-tell-anyone-youre-good-at-it-1538754380
>
> … I'd like to check
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