I appreciate the fact that applications are becoming more versatile and able
to do things that we hardly thought possible in the past but I feel that in
this added complexity you are losing sight of the need to do simple things
easily without resorting to trial and error or consulting "help" which often
anyhow doesn't lead one straight to the solution! An example is how to
produce a chart with a series of months i.e Jan Feb Mar etc appearing on the
X axis. This is no doubt something that resulted naturally in the first
versions of Excel charts or in a competitor's early (or present?) version.
Now when one comes to do this the numbers 1,2,3 etc appear. I eventually
learnt to first format this text to a date. There also seems to be no "how to
produce a chart" as such and one has to rely on a search word which may not
always correspond to Microsoft's nomenclature. Is it not time to consolidate
things into a more intuitive process to do what you need to without getting
lost? Thank you.