Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: database or spreadsheet

On 02/12/2012 01:52 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 08/02/2012 12:57, James Knott wrote:
> > Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > On 07/02/2012 13:03, e-letter wrote:
> > > > It is not known from the original poster _why_ the sheets needed to
> > > > be changed.
> > > > >
> > >
> > > Jeeze. DOES IT MATTER? No of course it doesn't MATTER.
> >
> > When you try to provide computer support, you'll often find someone is
> > trying to solve the wrong problem. When you know what they're trying
> > to do, you are then in a position to help them.
> >
> > So, yes it does matter.
> Trust me. I'm NOT asking the wrong question, neither am I trying to
> solve the wrong problem. I am an EXPERIENCED (as in 20 years) user of
> all types of spreadsheet, which if you'd read my other ;posts you would
> see.

We're not remote-sensing mind-readers.

James Knott has a very valid point, one which I myself have suffered 
through over the decades: power user or newbie developer has skills 
inadequate to the task, but doesn't know it, so asks "How do I 
snagglethrob the doohickey?" when the correct question is, "What's the 
best way to make *this* report run faster?" and so let the Expert 
possibly come up with an idea that the power user never would have 
thought of.

--
How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?

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