On 03/02/2012 18:59, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 03/02/2012 18:05, Stefan Weigel wrote:Yeah. OK. As someone who has been a Systems and Management Accountant (NOT a pseudo-database administrator) for 30 years and has used spreadsheets at advanced level with separate tabs for calendar-month data (as have all the colleagues I have worked with over that period in many different organisations) this is all very interesting but totally irrelevant to my question.Hi, Am 03.02.2012 16:50, schrieb Andreas Säger:Am 03.02.2012 16:05, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:I have a spreadsheet that is used for monthly and annual collection of data, with monthly tabs, Jan 2011, Feb 2011 etc. Is there a way to rename 2011 to 2012 in bulk, or do I have to do each one manually?Splitting up equally structured data across many sheets is *always* a huge mistake. Don't do that.Yes, can´t confirm this strong enough! Have a look into Calc Guide Chapter 8 (http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/#cg), especially read the third rule on page 24. Cheers, Stefan
And as an addendum, I have a similar sheet in Excel. I asked the same question in the MS Excel forum and was immediately given a macro by an Excel specialist to do this without any lecturing on my method of data collection...
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