On 07/10/2011 3:36 PM, Invisible wrote:
> I'm fairly sure Office v2 had that. I may be wrong. Certainly Office 97
> definitely had that. And that was, what, 14 years ago?
>

May be but it works now. The number of projects I've been on and when 
you try to read the embedded docs from a server and can't, are legion.


>
> Excel 97 had trend lines. Again, 14 years ago.
>

But would it tell you what the equation was? Of course I could be in my 
dotage and it was that long ago.


>
> I think that's an issue with the kind of people who use PowerPoint,
> rather than an issue with the software itself. ;-)
>

Okay, I'll give you that.

>>> And then there's Outlook.
>>
>> If you have ever used Lotus Notes you would not be complaining. ;-)
>
> Outlook is quite nice. Exchange is a hellish nightmare. (Or at least,
> the version I used was. That was a while ago now...)
>

It's not got any better IME.

> In fairness, I'm not aware of anything else that does what Outlook and
> Exchange do.

For big companies, you are probably right.
-- 
Regards
     Stephen

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