20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
3:27 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Andrew Burton wrote:
Excel is easy to use and comes with all Windows based
computers.
Excel is part of Microsoft OFFICE, NOT part of Windows.
Q: Is it also included in "WORKS"?
I deal with plenty of Windoze machines that don't have it, and I need to
decide whether to buy additional copies V installing Open Office. My
personal preference, of course, would be Open Office, but other people
have participation in the decision making process. Several things might
be different if they let me make the decisions.
Sadly I am not old enough (or lucky enough) to have
used any
alternatives - though I have heard of Lotus long before I joined this
list.
If you want, I'm sure that somebody could provide you copies of Lotus and
Visicalc that you could run on current machines.
While MOST of us see Excel as a bloated or just feature heavy Visiclone,
I guess that from YOUR perspective, Visicalc/Lotus would seem like
"stripped down" variants of Excel.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com