Charlotte Foust
charlotte.foust at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 10:53:30 CDT 2012
Because it would confuse the end users. Scary! Charlotte On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Susan Harkins <ssharkins at gmail.com> wrote: > Well, what I don't get is this -- Access actually does all the > normalization for these fields internally. If they can do that, why not > just push it to the interface and do it all the way? Why hide it? > > Susan H. > > > > Yeah, those sort of features remind me of junk food. The worse it is for >> you, the more folks seem to like to over indulge. In Excel for example the >> 'feature' of merged cells is used (and promoted) widely as being a >> wonderful thing, but can cause you enormous grief and pain if used without >> due care and consideration. Of course, no one tells the users that. They >> just merge away like buggery. >> >> I can think of many other examples as well... So much so that I like to >> use the term (ab)user rather than user with referring to some of my more >> troublesome employees of my clients. Hehe. >> >> > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/**mailman/listinfo/accessd<http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd> > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.**com<http://www.databaseadvisors.com> >