On 02/12/2012 06:09 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
I think many of us, including myself, have a tendency to try fitting a square peg in a round hole because we know the square peg tool and not the round hole tool.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.
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