On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 12/02/2012 23:25, Jay Lozier wrote: > >> On 02/12/2012 06:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> >>> On 02/12/2012 01:52 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/02/2012 12:57, James Knott wrote: >>>> >>>>> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 07/02/2012 13:03, e-letter wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> It is not known from the original poster _why_ the sheets needed to >>>>>>> be changed. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> Jeeze. DOES IT MATTER? No of course it doesn't MATTER. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> When you try to provide computer support, you'll often find someone is >>>>> trying to solve the wrong problem. When you know what they're trying >>>>> to do, you are then in a position to help them. >>>>> >>>>> So, yes it does matter. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Trust me. I'm NOT asking the wrong question, neither am I trying to >>>> solve the wrong problem. I am an EXPERIENCED (as in 20 years) user of >>>> all types of spreadsheet, which if you'd read my other ;posts you would >>>> see. >>>> >>>> >>> We're not remote-sensing mind-readers. >>> >>> James Knott has a very valid point, one which I myself have suffered >>> through over the decades: power user or newbie developer has skills >>> inadequate to the task, but doesn't know it, so asks "How do I snagglethrob >>> the doohickey?" when the correct question is, "What's the best way to make >>> *this* report run faster?" and so let the Expert possibly come up with an >>> idea that the power user never would have thought of. >>> >>> I think many of us, including myself, have a tendency to try fitting a >> square peg in a round hole because we know the square peg tool and not the >> round hole tool. >> >> But the point I made in other posts is that the square peg tool isn't > necessary - that's why I am using the round-peg tool, and it's nobodies > business but mine! > > > With that attitude, you'll be lucky to get any help at all. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
