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Awesome..gonna have to try it out.

Thanks!

GG

Why are you people using M$ Excel? :(

OpenOffice.Org ftw!

Gwar! wrote:Why are you people using M$ Excel? :(

OpenOffice.Org ftw!

Google docs is the best, access anywhere and the ability to share and collaborate in real time is great

Yeah but MS Excel is on my laptop . . . so access anywhere, and I don't need to collaborate. Plus it doesn't take time to get to, it's just on the homepage. And I've been using for years, so kinda used to it by now lol

Always stick to what you're best at. =D

Oshova

Gwar! wrote:Why are you people using M$ Excel? :(

OpenOffice.Org ftw!

Protip: Many PC's come with MS Office pre-installed.

FWIW, I use OpenOffice.org myself.

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Why are you people using M$ Excel? :(

OpenOffice.Org ftw!

Protip: Many PC's come with MS Office pre-installed.

FWIW, I use OpenOffice.org myself.

o.0 "Pre-Installed"? You mean people actually buy Pre-Made PCs???

I did, cos it's a laptop and it was easier. =p

Oshova

Gwar! wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Why are you people using M$ Excel? :(

OpenOffice.Org ftw!

Protip: Many PC's come with MS Office pre-installed.

FWIW, I use OpenOffice.org myself.

o.0 "Pre-Installed"? You mean people actually buy Pre-Made PCs???

I would imagine plenty of companies do too...

Companies generally buy custom made Dell ones . . . Ends up being cheaper cos they get deals etc.

Oshova

Gwar! wrote:

chaplaingrabthar wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Why are you people using M$ Excel? :(

OpenOffice.Org ftw!

Protip: Many PC's come with MS Office pre-installed.

FWIW, I use OpenOffice.org myself.

o.0 "Pre-Installed"? You mean people actually buy Pre-Made PCs???

Yes, many people still do. (I'm not one of them), especially in the laptop and netbook form factors.

Open Office ftw
I do use M$ for the table of contents and decorative crap. But it's from the PCs I use at my IT course, right before I get the assignments printed.


Gwar! you just reminded me of a crappy Dell add. they were going on and on about how great it was at office work, but I never once saw a keyboard or mouse. The other one they advertised in the same ad pretty much boasted about having them though

Well it's usually better to buy a pre-built PC when it's a laptop/netbook otherwise you can save a bit by just building the desktop yourself.

I've thought about building a PHP based database to build army lists...but I am actually more worried about the legal hammer that could come from such a page.

R3con wrote:I've thought about building a PHP based database to build army lists...but I am actually more worried about the legal hammer that could come from such a page.

I'm doing the same thing. But It's probably not getting posted to the internet at large. I'm using it as a proof-of-concept for my portfolio for web development/database applications. (Plus I'm limiting it to armies I play...)

Is it considered stealing if i use some these ideas for excel for myself? is that stupid question?

I use Excel too for army lists. With a little forethought and a lot of evolution you can get some nice lists set up.
I started out using it as a list of all the models I had and how much they would cost, so I could build armies and not realize later I was 3 girls short of a squad. Now I use it to just copy paste squad assignments and keep track of my points. Quite handy, and once you get the trick down you can put them together well.

I haven't gone so far as to make a pivot table with ALL possibilities, mostly because I don't have hugely variable armies, running most of the characters the same way with minimal changes.

garret wrote:Is it considered stealing if i use some these ideas for excel for myself? is that stupid question?

Making your own list creation tool is legal AFAIK in the U.S. under the current fair use laws. Don't distribute or sell it.





Note:
I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice.

Well as long as you're not profiting from it then it's perfectly legal as far as I know. But if you were selling off your excel sheets then that could be illegal.

Oshova

it all seems alot of effort, seeing as i have a list of points and stats in my codex, and i have pen and paper,

as to the stupid C&D scare, the guy saying all of it doesn't seem to understand things properly, dakkadakka users use registered trademarks all the time, and on top of that there is a difference between 'Army Builder' and 'army builder'