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Hi John

Right, and before that it was Visicalc which was the first application that, to me on the PET computer, showed real business power other than text processing.

/gustav

>>> jwcolby at gmail.com 02-03-13 14:23 >>>
 >That said, Excel still holds the honour of the killer PC application that got the whole show out 
of the IT department and into the hands of everyday users. It really did give power to the people 
and I will always love it for that.

And here I thought Lotus 123 did that.

John W. Colby

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it


On 3/1/2013 8:42 PM, Darryl Collins wrote:
> Yep, with you 100% on that one John (or 110% as some Excel users I know would say ;) ).
>
> Personally I still think of these tools as I first did back in the early days of MS Office.  The database is for storing the data and shrinking down the vast raw data into the bits you require to look at via views / queries / whatever.
>
> Excel is for doing the analysis, Pivots, charting, number mashing and playing with scenarios.
>
> Word is for doing the final presentation (or maybe (god forbid), Powerpoint).
>
> Too many folks try to do it all in one application.
> I have seen spreadsheet attempted in word tables.
> Databases in Excel is real common.
> the list goes on...
>
> That said, Excel still holds the honour of the killer PC application that got the whole show out of the IT department and into the hands of everyday users.  It really did give power to the people and I will always love it for that.