Stosh wrote...
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. . . I am trying to make a positive
contribution to the project, unlike you telling me that what I have to offer
is worthless and I never should have bothered. . . .

I didn't say it was worthless. I said it was unnecessary. I also said,
"Yes, it'd be simpler if this were built in."

That said, my priorities differ from yours, and your feature from my
perspective is unnecessary bloat. Excel is already more bloated than
I'd like, so your suggestion from my perspective would make Excel
worse. Don't I get to point this out?

. . . If you don't like it that's
fine, but you don't see me ranting on every thread that what is already in
the program is good enough. . . .

That I've NEVER said. Excel has ample room for improvement and
streamlining. But that doesn't mean I need to believe your pet feature
is a good idea.

. . . How can something ever get better if what it has is always good enough? . . .

There are way too many examples of software getting worse in aggregate
from too many individual, well-intentioned features being added. In a
program already as bulky and complex as Excel, the developers should be
VERY restrained about adding new features. Indiscriminately adding
features seldom makes software better.


. . . Also, if Excel has passed feature lock, then why would they still be asking for
suggestions? . . .

You don't understand that facility. They're not asking for suggestions
specific to Excel 2007. The suggestion box has been around for years,
and at this point it'd be for Excel 2010. In general, features are
never added only withdrawn after a program enters the beta testing
phase.

. . . This thread's existence proves that wrong. . . .

Not quite. I just want to keep Excel 2010's incremental bulkiness as
limited as possible.

. . . And luckily there have been more positive votes on this thread
than your one negative, so thank you for voting. All I know is that
Microsoft ASKED me to post here, so I did.

Since I don't use Microsoft's web portal, I have no idea what any
'votes' would be. Don't really care either.