About

You always thought that you were intelligent - until you started using a spreadsheet! Things no longer seemed as straightforward as they should be.

Share your insights with our Spreadsheet group. We'll help each other become experts in the field.

After all, you are not alone. Many of us have issues relating to spreadsheets - especially with the advanced features. The Spreadsheet forum can help.

Submit your query to the Spreadsheet forum, and you will receive responses from subscribers around the world.

Our collective information and background helps us help each other be successful in using spreadsheets.

Topics

This forum includes queries, recommendations, and tips for using spreadsheets.

• Queries about features using any spreadsheet program
• Queries about features working with any language
• Queries about features with any platform
• Conversion from one spreadsheet program to another
• Conversion among spreadsheets that use different platforms
• Collaboration among users
• Workarounds for bugs in spreadsheet programs
• Adding graphics and other outside elements to a spreadsheet
• Working with spreadsheet macros
• Switching to a different spreadsheet program
• Preserving your settings or special features when upgrading your program
• Preserving your settings or special features when upgrading your computer

Guidelines

The Spreadsheet forum discusses issues relating to any spreadsheet. No off topic postings are permitted.

Issues relating to Hebrew or right-to-left computing should be posted on the Hebrew Computing forum.

Bug reports should be submitted to the Spreadsheet group, with the following specific information:

• The name of the spreadsheet program
• The version
• The specific problem
• When the problem is noticed
• What issues seem to trigger the bug
• Proposed or requested solution

The developers of various spreadsheet programs subscribe to the Spreadsheet group. They are available to discuss these issues, but they will not respond to attacks.

Who should join

The Spreadsheet forum is designed for anybody who works, in any language, and under any platform. That includes the following groups of people:

• Experts in a specific spreadsheet program
• Users of spreadsheet programs
• People who want to know about spreadsheets
• Executives who want to know what features are available in spreadsheets
• Typists
• Agencies that hire people who work with spreadsheets
• Professionals who use spreadsheets in the course of their work
• Programmers, developers, and designers of spreadsheet programs
• Transcriptionists
• Translators
• Editors
• Writers
• Proofreaders
• Grant writers

What is excluded?

The following topics will not be discussed on this forum:

• Pushing your own product
• Putting down a particular product
  • Rather, write your comments in a positive manner