I'm actually not certain when they moved to a "paperless" product myself.
But I sure do miss having one to just browse through and pick up on new ideas
from without having to just sit down at a console and dedicate myself to only
reading the manual. God only knows how much knowledge I absorbed in the
"library" as opposed to what I don't get now at a console.

I don't think you learn as much about things with the "help files only" type
of documentation provided these days as back when they actually required the
manual dexterity to turn a page, or the ability to pretty much randomly open
to a place and just start reading for the purpose of simply learning
something new.

"James Silverton" wrote:

Peter wrote on Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:16:41 -0800 (PST):

Its had all the macros and VBA removed, so Excel won't shout
at you when you try to open it.

It just a plain old everyday XLS file, no fancy tricks.

Its at www.xlfdic.com

My reference book for Excel is John Walkenbach's "Excel 2002 Formulas"
in PDF format. I also have the MS Excel manuals and use them too. Was
2002 the last time they had real manuals?

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not