Posted by: Ronald Trip
on October 08, 2005 08:41 PM
Not using Office automation isn't an option either.
Doing the same damn operations by hand over and over again, to create a run of the mill report every week, would burn out even the most zealous office clerk.
I am very much into FOSS in my personal life, but at work my employer has standardised on MS Office (that's the reality of day to day life).
I for one am glad that there is VBA and Pivottables. It enables me to do more interesting work than cut-and-paste data and lay-outing.
It may pose a form of lockin, but not using these poweful tools means you become a brainless, number-shifting monkey.
My Macro's are pretty simple (have only been actively involved with VBA for 6 month now). I guess I could recreate them in StarBasic, if the need should arise.
No matter how you turn it, when you standardise on an application, you become dependant on it. This is true wether you use MS Office, OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, KOffice or AbiWord.
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Re:portability warning
Posted by: Ronald Trip on October 08, 2005 08:41 PMDoing the same damn operations by hand over and over again, to create a run of the mill report every week, would burn out even the most zealous office clerk.
I am very much into FOSS in my personal life, but at work my employer has standardised on MS Office (that's the reality of day to day life).
I for one am glad that there is VBA and Pivottables. It enables me to do more interesting work than cut-and-paste data and lay-outing.
It may pose a form of lockin, but not using these poweful tools means you become a brainless, number-shifting monkey.
My Macro's are pretty simple (have only been actively involved with VBA for 6 month now). I guess I could recreate them in StarBasic, if the need should arise.
No matter how you turn it, when you standardise on an application, you become dependant on it. This is true wether you use MS Office, OpenOffice.org/StarOffice, KOffice or AbiWord.
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