pch.shot wrote:Excel is the only thing MS ever made, and I mean only that actually works as it should and is useful at home.
I live and die by Excel at my office from abusing it for tables in Word documents (because Word tables are about the most archaic computer desktop publishing experience you can sit through (many a time I have asked myself if slitting my wrists wouldn't be easier... Ahhhh... Sweet death)). There really is nothing that compares even if generating charts and graphs needs a complete and total overhaul (see Word Tables, above). For word processing, I don't much care but yeah, Abi is pretty much the s--t in my book as well. Word I use because it's ubiquitous in the corporate world. Like so many MS products, Office hit it's peak right around Office 2003/Office XP and has been in rapid decline ever since with more and more "bloat", and revamped GUI's that are, amazingly, managing to get even LESS intuitive than before, because Microsoft can't seem to stop f--king with a good thing. The switch over to Office 2009 (or whatever it's called) is still reeking havoc on my campus when people send documents in the new, default, non-backwards compatible (without the conversion utility)
.docx format.
Wow... Now THAT'S some forward thinking right there.