OK, thanks to Matt I now have attachments powerz! And, as thrilling as the discussion on open file formats and office suite interaction was, we didn't really anywhere approach the real issue.
So let's give it another go, shall we kids?
In preparation for possible consulting work, I need to get MS Office. iWork/OpenOffice/LibreOffice/NeoOffice/WhateverthefuckOffice won't cut it because, like it or not, pretty much the whole industry uses MS Office.
For those of you who've been using O2013, and specifically XL2013, I'd appreciate your feedback on one of my most hated bugbears in XL2010. I only realised that things might have changed when I downloaded an evaluation copy of O2011 (Mac) and found XL2011 gets this bit right (although it's had its data analysis innards ripped out.)
The bugbear involves adding error bars to data points on a graph. Attached is a small XL file to play with, and screenshots of how XL2010 and XL2011 handle things.
In XL2010 you style the data series. Then you add the error bars. But in order to do that you have to click on a different tab in the ribbon ('Layout'), then click 'Error Bars', 'More Error Bars Options'. From the dialogue box, 'Verical Error Bars', 'Custom' and specify the error from columns D and E (depending on the data selected, natch).
And even then XL adds feckin' horizontal bars as well :@
In XL2011, things are a whole lot easier. Error bars are just selected from the same dialogue that you use to format the data series (and series order can also be changed here!)
So, gentle forumites, has XL2013 learned the ways of grace and good UI design from XL2011, or is it still as retarded as its buck-toothed, slack-jawed predecessor?
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