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Subject: [OM] Well OT - MS
From: Chris Barker <imagopus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 05:56:37 +0100
Cc: "Jim L'Hommedieu" <lamadoo@xxxxxxxx>
I think that you will find, Lama, that Excel was a long-respected
spreadsheet programme from Harvard which MS bought out a while ago.
Excel must be the best application of its kind in the world, whereas
Word has long had problems and is not well integrated.  Powerpoint is
just ponderous (no keyboard shortcut for slide show for instance) and
makes huge files (not even including imported graphics!).  I used to
use Harvard Graphics and I suspect that that would have made a better
presentation programme running under a GUI like Windows or Mac OS.

No, I should not respect MS as an authority on user interfaces ... my
fairly caustic opinion of course as a Mac user :>).

Chris

At 18:52 -0400 30/5/02, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
OT:

They may be better than others but there's lots of room for improvement.
Excel and Word don't even "Save As" documents the same way!  Word assumes
you want to Save As to the same folder as the original document while Excel
assumes you want to use the  "default" folder which is usually a pain in the
neck.

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