On 2/11/2019 9:43 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 2/11/2019 1:51 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2019 16:18:57 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 2/10/2019 3:08 PM, rbowman wrote:


I'll admit in the '80s I wasn't too sure what Joe Sixpack was going to
do with a PC anyway. They were tools for me and what I was developing
was for industrial or embedded applications. When I bought an Osborne I
it came with SuperCalc and I never figured out what you're supposed to
do with it. 35 years later Excel still is a mystery. People do
impressive things with it but it reminds me of using a screwdriver for a
chisel.


The PC has many uses.Â* For instance. instead of a $10 timer, you can use
a $2000 PC to turn a light on and off.

Excel has many uses too.Â* You can track your utility bills every month
and eliminate the need for a pencil that has to be sharpened on occasion.

I do use Quicken though.Â* It really does make banking easier and more
accurate than the old checkbook.

My main contact with excel is the data I get on water quality from
DEP.
It is OK if all you want to do is re sort columns and such but if I
really want to crunch numbers I still export it as a CSV, stuff it
into a dBase file and write a script. I assume I could do that with
Excel but this dog is too old too learn a new trick for the little I
need it.

At work I used Excel quite a bit.Â* With a macro it was easy to do production reports, inventory changes, and the like.

At home, I only had one practical use.Â* About 9 years ago I had a new, higher efficiency boiler installed.Â* The idea was the savings would pay for it over time.Â* I tracked oil use and degree days for two years with the old boiler, then started tracking
the new one. I used the same weather station for degree days.Â* In seven years, the cost of the boiler was saved, then I started to come ahead. Then we sold the house anyway so the new owner gets the majority of benefits.


Seldom use a spreadsheet but recently used LibreOffice Calc to create a label for my entrance panel breakers.Â* Setting the exact row height and column width of the cells made layout a snap.