If your argument is strong enough, you don't have to sink to personal
attacks. When you attack the other person (by saying things like "idiot" and
"stupid") you have lost the argument.

Whatever strength your argument had at the beginning has now been destroyed
by your ad hominem attacks.

Regards,
Fred

"Mycelium" wrote in
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:10:51 -0400, smartin wrote:

If I create a spread sheet that has one sheet that performs lookups to
the 14 MB workbook, the spreadsheet that is a single row lookup of the
bigger workbook suddenly climbs to the exact same size as the workbook
it
references. That is absolutely wrong!

Are you saying Excel failed your expectations here? Seems counter to
your argument. Maybe I misunderstood.

I never made an argument "for excel", idiot. Look at the statement.
It infers that ALL of the office apps have problems. You seem to thing I
was touting excel. I was not.

What I said was that a simple, one row spread sheet should be a simple
small file size, but if one performs a lookup to a large spreadsheet in
it, the file size suddenly grows to the size of the lookup workbook. That
is just plain stupid.