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Mon, Sep 17, 2012 10:27 AM

I used it for the first time a couple weeks ago (Open Office version). It took like twenty minutes to figure out the basics.

I quickly encountered that phenomenon that Phil pointed out some time back, about how it constrains your /thinking/, and constrains what you communicate. Very confining. I didn't like it.

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11 years ago

Mon, Sep 17, 2012 12:15 PM

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11 years ago

Mon, Sep 17, 2012 4:35 PM

Dropped PowerPoint close to 20 years ago as too cumbersome to use.

Never thought of Excel as a presentation tool. I use it only as a math aid, to churn data. ...Jim Thompson

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Mon, Sep 17, 2012 5:52 PM

I think the point is - if all you know is Powerpoint.... you'll

*be* constrained.... the problem with Powerpoint is that people mistake it for reality...

It's possible to manipulate Excel in many high level languages ( I know Tcl* does this through the tcom extension ). So you could - theoretically - have an embedded target that shoots data over a socket to a program on a PC that's pwning Excel and freak people right the heck out.

It's far too much fun to do this.

So rather than being constrained to buttons, text boxes and the like for GUIs, you can consider Excel tables, graphs and the like as manipulable objects as well.

*python also seems to have a tcom extension.

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11 years ago

Mon, Sep 17, 2012 8:37 PM

For a company that makes high powered, pulsed, lasers, not a word about ultrafast pulses, analog design, or laser experience. Cut and paste at its best....

At least they did include gas handling...

Sigh...

Steve

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11 years ago

Tue, Sep 18, 2012 1:48 AM

You can do a log of engineering in Excel. I haven't run real office in a long time, but that optimizer in Excel kicks ass. It is not a default. You have to select it to load it. I optimized an arithmetically symmetric bandpass with it.

I simply can't see an engineer not knowing how to use a spreadsheet.

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11 years ago

Fri, Sep 21, 2012 2:34 AM

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I first used powerpoint about 25 years ago, it wasn't bad then. I tried it again about 1 year ago and found it unusable. Excel 97 is a good product, if you have it keep it; the chart capabilities are vastly superior to every subsequent generation. Similar with MS word. = OpenOffice is way too slavishly following them with more glitz and less capability.

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