02-23-2022, 02:53 AM
/rant on
Work uses this product (Excel), and the use of much of anything else often times will get questioned, even if it's "equivalent," so I seem to be stuck with it. Today, I worked to change a document--let's make it clearer and easier to follow, because it's rather complicated and it just confuses people--so I worked all day in between my regular job(s) to get this done. Saved it periodically, as this ((**&^&*(O) thing will just crash or whatever and you lose your work. So yeah, I use the little icon at the top marked "Save." Yeah, that should work. Right!!?? "Saved" it prior to putting the laptop to sleep and bringing it home to finish it.
This POS laptop hung up once I got it home and opened it: nothing moved, nothing would work, nada, zilch, zero. So, rebooted it. And guess what???? ALL of the changes I did today, even prior to the "saves," were GONE. GONE. It was saved, right? Right????
This is a Mac, not some POS Windows, and it should be better than this. It was this kind of crap that drove me from a PC to a Mac in grad school, as the periodic hanging, crashing, and losing of work was unacceptable, even though it was more expensive and money was tight. WTF people????
/rant off
Thank you for listening. Back to your normal programming.
Diana
PS for those who are wondering about using LibreOffice: the last time I used the spreadsheet and copied a previously created one to just make a few changes (and keep the original spreadsheet), a rather inexplicable event occurred: The numbers were off. Not a little, but a lot. The formulas were still there, the original numbers that were typed in were there, everything seemed right, but the calculated values were off. I could never figure it out, and as I needed to get my taxes done that year and not spend my time troubleshooting a spreadsheet that didn't seem to have anything wrong with it EXCEPT that the calculated numbers were different from the original, I just rebuilt the spreadsheet.
PSS about the laptop: MBP 15", 2015, bought used a few years ago. As soon as I can reasonably replace it, I will.
Work uses this product (Excel), and the use of much of anything else often times will get questioned, even if it's "equivalent," so I seem to be stuck with it. Today, I worked to change a document--let's make it clearer and easier to follow, because it's rather complicated and it just confuses people--so I worked all day in between my regular job(s) to get this done. Saved it periodically, as this ((**&^&*(O) thing will just crash or whatever and you lose your work. So yeah, I use the little icon at the top marked "Save." Yeah, that should work. Right!!?? "Saved" it prior to putting the laptop to sleep and bringing it home to finish it.
This POS laptop hung up once I got it home and opened it: nothing moved, nothing would work, nada, zilch, zero. So, rebooted it. And guess what???? ALL of the changes I did today, even prior to the "saves," were GONE. GONE. It was saved, right? Right????
This is a Mac, not some POS Windows, and it should be better than this. It was this kind of crap that drove me from a PC to a Mac in grad school, as the periodic hanging, crashing, and losing of work was unacceptable, even though it was more expensive and money was tight. WTF people????
/rant off
Thank you for listening. Back to your normal programming.
Diana
PS for those who are wondering about using LibreOffice: the last time I used the spreadsheet and copied a previously created one to just make a few changes (and keep the original spreadsheet), a rather inexplicable event occurred: The numbers were off. Not a little, but a lot. The formulas were still there, the original numbers that were typed in were there, everything seemed right, but the calculated values were off. I could never figure it out, and as I needed to get my taxes done that year and not spend my time troubleshooting a spreadsheet that didn't seem to have anything wrong with it EXCEPT that the calculated numbers were different from the original, I just rebuilt the spreadsheet.
PSS about the laptop: MBP 15", 2015, bought used a few years ago. As soon as I can reasonably replace it, I will.