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37678 Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office
   Decomposed > There's a reason Microsoft removed Access from the home v... 		Zimbler0   6TH POPE   23 Nov 2022
 2:05 AM
37663 Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office
   Zim & De: "Their 'Sequel Server' database stuff is incredibly power... 		Fiz   6TH POPE   22 Nov 2022
 3:36 PM

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Re: Free Download of New Edition of Designing with Libre Office

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Tue, 22 Nov 22 7:56 AM
Msg. 37660 of 60008
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Zimbler0:

Re: “But, I have seen some truly complicated spreadsheet 'applications' doing some sophisticated computations.”Of course. Anything *can* turn complex. I trust you'll agree that most of the time, Excel and Word are used for very simple things. But Access projects are never simple. In fact, that word "project" says a lot. Access is for PROJECTS and only for projects. It isn't used when the boss calls you up and says he's got some new need and has to have it that same morning. Word and Excel *can* be used in the project sense but are used far more frequently for writing memos and adding up some numbers... or maybe generating a chart. Beyond that is less common and out of the norm (except by techies, of course, who may ONLY do that kind of thing.).

Do you think anyone has ever brought up a fresh installation of Access and had it doing something useful in less than HOURS? How about Word? I'd say "Yes, in about 2 minutes." Excel? "Maybe twenty."

There's a reason Microsoft removed Access from the home version of Office. Almost nobody was using it. Too hard.


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