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Convincing 123 users to convert to Excel
I am an advanced Excel user and I am running a training class on Excel. There
are some long time Lotus 123 users who I need to convert. Do you know of a good article listing the advantages/ changes in moving from Lotus to Excel. Thanks |
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Convincing 123 users to convert to Excel
If they haven't already been converted, they can just goto "h_ _ _"
So you might mention that their only road to salvation is excel. <G -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "DM" wrote in message ... I am an advanced Excel user and I am running a training class on Excel. There are some long time Lotus 123 users who I need to convert. Do you know of a good article listing the advantages/ changes in moving from Lotus to Excel. Thanks |
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Yeah, real helpful there buddy.
To the original poster, you should know that Excel, despite being a slick spreadsheet program, does NOT do everything better than Lotus 1-2-3. You have to give up some very powerful and cool features when moving to Excel from 1-2-3 but that's to be expected. Sometimes there are workarounds, sometimes you need help from VBA, and sometimes you need help from Microsoft Access. Having said that, Excel obviously has powerful features that 1-2-3 doesn't have. So you really can't have it all. I've brought up the issue of why Excel still hasn't incorporated such features as true 3-D spreadsheets, a powerful Version Manager like 1-2-3 has, and my biggest irritation, the inability to enter a formula in the criteria argument of the database functions like =DSUM. There are other things 1-2-3 does better, too. No one replies here, neither does Microsoft. I guess they just want to avoid the issue. Maybe patents are protecting Lotus and Microsoft doesn't want to infringe on them. Maybe the brilliant programmers at Microsoft haven't figured out how to implement these things yet (although 1-2-3 has had them for over a decade). I don't know, but what bugs me is ignoring the issue. I'd like it if the Excel lovers or power users (and I'm one of them) would man-up and just admit that Excel isn't the be-all and end-all of spreadsheets. I use it daily, all day long and haven't used 1-2-3 for over 6 years. I can still be objective and true to myself and admit that it isn't the Holy Grail like some here would have us believe. I still hold out hope for Excel to become truly powerful but after so many years it looks like Microsoft is impeded by legal issues. Maybe they should buy 1-2-3 from IBM and get it over with. Don't know if the government will let them, that would be total and complete domination of that market. "Don Guillett" wrote: If they haven't already been converted, they can just goto "h_ _ _" So you might mention that their only road to salvation is excel. <G -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "DM" wrote in message ... I am an advanced Excel user and I am running a training class on Excel. There are some long time Lotus 123 users who I need to convert. Do you know of a good article listing the advantages/ changes in moving from Lotus to Excel. Thanks |
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Convincing 123 users to convert to Excel
Thanks for you help. I did the class and the lotus person wasn't quite as
opposed to the move as I had anticipated but expressed a few concerns that you mentioned. Thanks Again- DM "Cifrocco" wrote: Yeah, real helpful there buddy. To the original poster, you should know that Excel, despite being a slick spreadsheet program, does NOT do everything better than Lotus 1-2-3. You have to give up some very powerful and cool features when moving to Excel from 1-2-3 but that's to be expected. Sometimes there are workarounds, sometimes you need help from VBA, and sometimes you need help from Microsoft Access. Having said that, Excel obviously has powerful features that 1-2-3 doesn't have. So you really can't have it all. I've brought up the issue of why Excel still hasn't incorporated such features as true 3-D spreadsheets, a powerful Version Manager like 1-2-3 has, and my biggest irritation, the inability to enter a formula in the criteria argument of the database functions like =DSUM. There are other things 1-2-3 does better, too. No one replies here, neither does Microsoft. I guess they just want to avoid the issue. Maybe patents are protecting Lotus and Microsoft doesn't want to infringe on them. Maybe the brilliant programmers at Microsoft haven't figured out how to implement these things yet (although 1-2-3 has had them for over a decade). I don't know, but what bugs me is ignoring the issue. I'd like it if the Excel lovers or power users (and I'm one of them) would man-up and just admit that Excel isn't the be-all and end-all of spreadsheets. I use it daily, all day long and haven't used 1-2-3 for over 6 years. I can still be objective and true to myself and admit that it isn't the Holy Grail like some here would have us believe. I still hold out hope for Excel to become truly powerful but after so many years it looks like Microsoft is impeded by legal issues. Maybe they should buy 1-2-3 from IBM and get it over with. Don't know if the government will let them, that would be total and complete domination of that market. "Don Guillett" wrote: If they haven't already been converted, they can just goto "h_ _ _" So you might mention that their only road to salvation is excel. <G -- Don Guillett SalesAid Software "DM" wrote in message ... I am an advanced Excel user and I am running a training class on Excel. There are some long time Lotus 123 users who I need to convert. Do you know of a good article listing the advantages/ changes in moving from Lotus to Excel. Thanks |
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