Re: Garbage

From: Rob Schneider (rmschne_at_removetheones_b1e1e1b.net.net)
Date: 09/07/04 

Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 21:45:54 +0100

You don't say what you were using. you don't say what you want to do.
You don't say what version of Office you are using. You don't say what
books you have read, nor the training you have completed. You had only
one reason to change, and yet you don't measure success against that
single reason, nor state if you had success or not. You keep looking
for work-arounds, instead of saying how you are learning the right ways
to do it. You don't say you don't have the resources to support a
change. You note that some questions in NG's (that you don't state
which they are) take weeks to get answers, yet you fail to notice the
ones that are answered quickly. You don't say that you've tried things
other than to ask questions in NG's.

You did everything right to fail. Declare success and move on.

dave wrote:
> I am a small business owner/operator who purchased
> Micosoft Office about a year ago for the first time. The
> only reason is to try to be more compatible to my
> clients. In the time I have had Office, I have attempted
> to convert a spread*** and a database application to
> Office and have run into more problems than if I had not
> purchased Office in the first place.
>
> Functions that are part of the software do not produce the
> same results as comparable functions in my current
> software. So I am constantly trying to create "work
> arounds" to make up for that. In many cases, capabilities
> of my current software simply do not exist in Office.
> Again, more work arounds.
>
> Unfortunately, it appears that the standard answer to this
> type of problem is "Write a VB script". For people like
> me, that is no help--I do not know VB and do not have the
> time to learn it. Why should I have to write a script to
> do something my current software will do via a menu
> option? My business does not have the funds to pay
> professional programmers to do conversions for
> applications that are already working.
>
> I have looked as some of the messages in the various
> Office Newgroups to see if some help is there. There seem
> to be similar questions to mine, but I am seeing that no
> responses are given in a lot of the cases after about a
> week of checking. I cannot wait a week or more for an
> answer to a problem. It is obvious that the "experts"
> cannot produce an answer to some of these problems, so how
> are the novices supposed to cope?
>
> It is bad enough that I had to pay over twice as much for
> Office as I did for my current software. I end up with
> less functionality which decreases my productivity. Now I
> need to pay to have functionality added? Functionality
> that should be part of the sofware in the first place. I
> cannot wait on the "experts" for help. All of this is a
> cost to my business and my clients. It is more cost-
> effective for my clients to buy compatible software than
> it is for me to spend money on converting to Office.
>
> I wish I had never attempted to use Office and to try to
> convert these applications. I have stopped any work on
> these conversions and will not deal with this garbage
> called Office. Microsoft must have paid off the people
> making software-purchase decisions. It is obvious to me
> that the end-users of the software must have had no idea
> what they were being forced into using. If they were, I
> cannot see Office being used anywhere.