Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

What is the best way to use Spreadsheets sef? Can someone explain (with examples). It seems it is a 
becoming a redundant tool for dBase pros. When is it right to use it?
 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Säger <villeroy@t-online.de>
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 20:11:43 
To: <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Reply-To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Calc help

How do the data get into spreadsheets? Can't you simply avoid all 
spreadsheets? Spreadsheets are the worst file format to store 
interrelated table data. Even plain text files can be more suitable for 
data processing as suggested by Jorge.
Databases are development tools which save you and you co-workers a lot 
of time over the years. Just like a programming language, a database 
won't do anything for you unless you do something with it proactively. 
You won't get anywhere by mere trial and error. It is not as simple as 
copying raw data from one file into another.
The way how you describe your problem is entirely non-technical. We do 
not see any of your data you are going to process nor can we really 
understand your aim.

> I am computer savvy but failed programming miserably so I need the input of the many smart people 
> on this list

In other words, you want us to do your work?


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