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Years ago, if you wanted to do a spreadsheet task Microsoft had a help file on the PC that was readable and indexed and told you how to do common tasks. Now the
by massysett 5y ago
Years ago, if you wanted to do a spreadsheet task Microsoft had a help file on the PC that was readable and indexed and told you how to do common tasks. Now there is no on-system help whatsoever and searching Google doesn’t even get you something from Microsoft but rather a page from the Houston Chronicle (??) that probably doesn’t even work for your version of Excel.
I think in most respects basic “office suite” software has not improved in over twenty years.
- crazygringo 5y ago95% of the things you wanted to do were never covered in Microsoft's help file. The help file covered all the "building blocks", but there's a long tail of use cases requiring combining those building blocks in non-trivial ways. If the Houston Chronicle happens to be the one covering one of those long-tail use cases then that's amazing. Because no user manual could ever be large enough for them all. And even if it's not for "your version of Excel", adapting it is probably the easy part.