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So I had an excell spreadsheet open, updating prices for telecom equipment for my company, and I was asked by the CEO to print out the spreadsheet containing Feb. profits. I opened the profit spreadsheet, and the pricing sheet came up because my computer apparently can't have two different excell documents open at the same time. I closed it, and I lost all the work I had done. Fuck excell.

well that sux :(

So I had an excell spreadsheet open, updating prices for telecom equipment for my company, and I was asked by the CEO to print out the spreadsheet containing Feb. profits. I opened the profit spreadsheet, and the pricing sheet came up because my computer apparently can't have two different excell documents open at the same time. I closed it, and I lost all the work I had done. Fuck excell.
Yes, Microsoft office applications are very evil.

Though I'm surprised. I would have thought that you can keep two documents in Excel open at the same time. Did you check the tabs at the bottom?

I love Excel. I work in excel all day long. I prepare everything, journal entries, vouchers, cash receipts, in excel and import them into the accounting software we use. I also do all of my analysis, graphs, and charts in excel. I keep my home budget in excel and download my online banking reports into excel. If you are having problems with it, email me and I'll see if I can figure out what is going wrong.

Yes, Microsoft office applications are very evil.

Though I'm surprised. I would have thought that you can keep two documents in Excel open at the same time. Did you check the tabs at the bottom?
No. I guess it's my dumb mistake. I still blame Excell.

sorry,

I have to disagree.
Excel is a very powerfull program.

I use it on a daily basis for budget projections for work and my own finances, I create forms that deal with inventory and asset tracking. And so much more.

Not being able to have more than one spreadsheet open sounds to me like its more a problem with your computer somewhere along the line. Get in touch if you want help.

Excell is stupid.

That's why the Computer-RPGers main directive also stands for it: Safe often, safe early!

The same thing happened to me, too, though. Fortunately I didn't loose too much work, but one hour of it, or so.

Go Linux baby. w00t.

Microsoft---> :) :sniper: <----Linux

Excel can be a terrible pain in the arse, and the help function is next to useless. On my home computer, it's decided that it can't open documents from the "My Documents" file in the Start Menu -- unless they're imported -- only from the "File" menu within the program. Something to do with the copy -- an official Microsoft one -- I received.

No. I guess it's my dumb mistake. I still blame Excell.

If there is one thing we must all remember. it is that it is always the programs(and or compters) fault and never ours ;)

If there is one thing we must all remember. it is that it is always the programs(and or compters) fault and never ours ;)
Exactly. Humans don't make mistakes, computers and programs do.

In Sovjet Russia, Excell hates you

I run on OpenOffice software when it comes to office software, and though I have to use Excel at work, there's something less irritating about OpenOffice.

Maybe it's just my attitude problem with Microsoft, maybe it's that OO has yet to crash on me (knock on wood). Both, however, are powerful tools, though both contain certain idiotisms.

So I had an excell spreadsheet open, updating prices for telecom equipment for my company, and I was asked by the CEO to print out the spreadsheet containing Feb. profits. I opened the profit spreadsheet, and the pricing sheet came up because my computer apparently can't have two different excell documents open at the same time. I closed it, and I lost all the work I had done. Fuck excell.
How much memory do you have? From windows 95 and up,you should be able to open 2 spreadsheets?

unless you got a dinosaur version of Excell...

How much memory do you have? From windows 95 and up,you should be able to open 2 spreadsheets?

unless you got a dinosaur version of Excell...
I think I've got a dinosaur version of Excell. It's from the late 90's

Excel is easily the best of the MS Office offerings. Word tries to be everything and insists on trying to reformat every darn thing I type. Visio is the worst of the bunch, though. Before MS bought the program, it was easy to draw simple things. Now it's capable of drawing complex things, but the simple stuff is just as hard.

Man, I wish there were some competitors for MS Office programs.

Use OpenOffice?

Fuck excell.
Couldn't agree more. It's a pile of shit, and oftentimes fucking Word is no better. It always screws up my stuff with it's twatty reformatting, thinking it's doing me a favour! :mad:

Use OpenOffice?
It might be an alternative, but hardly a competitor. Compatiblity is such a problem that I don't think there will ever be an end to the MS Office domination.

If the programmers would just not write so many bugs into the programs...Probably a result of feature creep.

If there was just someone on the other end of those "Send an Error Report" messages...

I think I've got a dinosaur version of Excell. It's from the late 90's

The quotes didn't include one from Microsoft did it? Thats why it lost the data.

I think I've got a dinosaur version of Excell. It's from the late 90'sno... that should be capable of opening multiple spreadsheets... did you check the [windows] command? it might have overlaid the document, but not deleted it.

Click on WINDOWS at the top. at the bottom of the menu should be a list of all the Spreadsheets opened. looks kinda like:
1: Book1
2: Book2