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.

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