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[David L. Anselmi]

Nate Duehr wrote:
> 
> On Jul 25, 2008, at 9:18 PM, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 
>> What do you use Excel for that you can't use OO Calc for?  I know a 
>> guy who's a wiz at Excel (and Access), maybe I should have him show me 
>> what real work in a spreadsheet looks like.  (Pity that he doesn't 
>> have an easy way to version control his macros.)
> 
> Heh... you'd be flamed by Linuxhater... "Yeah, because making sure my 
> macros from Excel work in a replacement for Excel is less important than 
> version controlling my new broken macros."

I don't know if you can version control Calc macros any better than 
Excel.  That was a tangential thought about how much of a business's 
rules may be buried in Excel where no one can see them or keep track of 
who changed what when.  Business gets by that way but software 
developers learned a long time ago that it doesn't work for them.  It 
would be interesting cross-pollination to use svn for business data (in 
a case where it made sense, of course).

Dave