How to Report a Bug to Microsoft

Re:How to Report a Bug to Microsoft by schveiguy on Friday May 26, 2017 @06:01PM (#14427522)

It's... complicated :) Mostly because utility companies insist on Excel for exchange of energy calculations. And even more importantly, because it was WAY WAY better than the previous iteration. Don't make me talk about it.

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Re:How to Report a Bug to Microsoft by zie on Friday May 26, 2017 @11:33PM (#14428798)

You can use actual programming languages to beat up excel: http://www.python-excel.org/ (I'm sure other languages can beat up excel too)

I'm not saying it's a fix for this particular use case, but I couldn't imagine having to manually update a bunch of excel sheets regularly.. talk about a nightmare. ack.

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Re:How to Report a Bug to Microsoft by kaleidic on Saturday May 27, 2017 @04:40PM (#14431855)

Or indeed https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/excel-d which schweiguy may find more appealing :)

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Re:How to Report a Bug to Microsoft by mrmondo on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:44PM (#14428682)

I feel your pain and too don't want to talk about it, the problem is the software 'corporates' think they should be using isn't what they should be using due to people in non-technical roles making technical decisions.

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