Re:Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
by zeidrich on Thursday February 14, 2013 @02:45PM
(#5221653)
Applies To:
- Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac
- Microsoft Excel 2001 for Mac
- Microsoft Excel X for Mac
Sure, it sucks that it was there at all, but the most recent mentioned is a 9 year Mac version of the software (which is written by a different team than does the Windows Office anyways).
Re:Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
by pfg on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:02PM
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I believe I ran into the same problem about a year ago using Office 2010 (on Windows).
Re:Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere
by jackalope on Thursday February 14, 2013 @04:18PM
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Yes! This ridiculous bug is still out there and is why I never use 'ID' when designing my schemas. Seriously, why can't reserved words be designed to be so uncommon, you'll never have a conflict? If I see another 'klass' object in Python or email broken because someone started a sentence with 'From' I'm going to cry.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/215591
What a nightmare. Do they not realize how many DB tables start with 'ID'? And CSV is too common a format to just completely ignore. It's not always up to us.